National Poetry Day!

Today marks National Poetry Day across the country. In school, we have been busy celebrating the special day in lots of ways. Miss Baxter and Mrs Lawson have been busy holding assemblies with our Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 classes to share the day and enjoy a poem or two together. Children have also been busy knocking down the door of Team CB to come and read a poem with adults when they have had a spare second. It has been lovely to hear the children read with such confidence and expression.
We are also holding a Poetry competition within school, tied in to the theme for this year "the environment" by asking our children to create a poem about Autumn. This will be judged by our Arts Council, and already some of the entries we have received have been to an exceptionally high standard - judging will definitely be challenging!
In Literacy, all classes in Key Stage 1 and 2 have been working hard on creating their own poems. Each class has has a different poetry focus, with Year 2 doing shape poems, Year 3 doing rhyme poems and so on. The children are very proud of these and can't wait to share them with wider school later in the term!