Poetry Competition
Our poetry competition has been fraught with difficulties this term as both our Year 6 and Year 3 bubbles burst. However, Year 6 had managed to record most of their poems, unfortunately Year 3 had not had the opportunity to record their poems before they were isolating. Historically Year 3 have been very strong contenders with Mr Norman’s class scooping the prize on a number of occasions. With Year 3 being out of the running this left the field wide open to the other classes. We are pleased to announce the winners this term are Class 4 with Class 9 taking the runners up prize. Well done to all the classes. A special shout out to Class 11 who managed to record their poem over zoom.
You can view the winning poems in the films below.
First Prize – Class 4
Second Prize – Class 9
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