Student exhibition 2020
Here is a growing selection of students' work. During the year they are encouraged to experiment with form, rhythm and rhyme as well as figurative language such as simile and metaphor.
Kite poetry
Experimenting with syllables.
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Galapagos
A
tortoise -
huge and green
like an immense
cabbage or brocc'li
sleeping in his
shell which is
very
dark.
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War poet Wilfred Owen died one week before Armistice Day.
The student is asked to write a poem from the point of the view of his mother.
Here they have chosen to use iambic pentameter.
A mother’s tale from World War One
Bells ringing, fireworks exploding, cheering,
women crying with joy, children running,
alcohol flowing, flags waving, salutes.
Soldiers carrying their children, smiling.
A telegram came, it must be my son.
Oh no! My…my son died in the battlefield
If only Wilfred survived one more week…
Dear son, oh I miss you so much, goodbye.
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Year 8 (2020)
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