LTT Poetry Festival

We have enjoyed taking part in our Trust Poetry Festival this week along with the other schools in the Learning Together Trust. During the week, we enjoyed hearing a range of poems from a variety of authors such as Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne, On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan and Walking with My Iguana by Brian Moses. At the start of the week we watched author Paul Cookson perform some of his poetry in an online video. We then took part in a workshop, led by Paul Cookson, to generate ideas and create our own poem about brothers and sisters following his style of poetry. To finish the week, we looked at the poem The Word Bird by Sally Crabtree and followed her suggestions to make our own word birds, which we filled with some of our favourite words. We then followed another of Sally Crabtree's ideas and made a number of our favourite words out of bird seed to create a simple word poem that could be danced through the sky by the birds. On Friday, it was lovely to join the other schools from the Learning Together Trust via Zoom! to perform our class poems that we had been learning through the week. We performed Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne because it links to our topic of Childhood and one brave member of our class individually performed On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan, after she had learned it by herself at home. We had a great time during poetry week.