National Poetry Day is the biggest mass celebration of poetry in the UK
It’s a chance for all of us to share in the pleasure of poetry.
We had a lovely time exploring poetry and playing around with how the words affect what we are trying to convey. The theme this year was counting, but we used poetic licence to change that and explore poetry linked to a variety of things.
Please enjoy a poetry trail through St Michael’s.
Reception class focused on rhyming and shared some games and stories.
Year 1 have been discussing the weather and seasonal change. They wrote a poem all about autumn and how the leaves and trees change.
Year 2 decided to delve into the world of list poetry! As their topic this term was rainforests, they wanted to include that element in their poetry.
Year 4 have been creating Haiku Poems. These are traditional Japanese poems that follow a pattern and are made up of 3 lines. The first has 5 syllables, the seconds has 7 and finally the last line has 5 syllables again. Our inspiration for these came from the novel “Varjak Paw” and our class text “Zelda Claw”.
If you had walked past the Year 4 class, you would have heard a lot of clapping going on as they played around with syllables and word choices in their books. Then when they were happy with a final poem, the children wrote it out as a best copy. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed making them.
Year 5 focused on free verse poetry and using a number of different poetic devices within their poems, such as alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm. They explored a couple of free verse poems for inspiration before discussing topics for their own poems. The children were then asked to let their imaginations run wild and write their own free verse poems.
Year 6 read and analysed ‘A Poem Spoken Silently’ by Pie Corbett. They discussed using figurative language using similes, metaphors and personification to draw in the reader. They then proceeded to use an image of a calm sea side to create their own poem in the style of Pie Corbett with an amazing outcome as evidenced in the examples below.
We are used to having children create wonderful writing, and we have another example here. This poem is an entry in the book, ‘Once Upon a Dream – Twilight Wonders’. As the blurb of the book states, capturing a unique insight into the imagination of the young.
