National Poetry Week

St. John's celebrated National Poetry Week with the amazing poet Paul Lyalls.

In celebration assembly, Mr Lyalls performed some poems from his new collection, which is currently in publishing. The children especially enjoyed listening to a poem all about food - teachers that eat pizza and porridge that gives you more knowledge... Oh how we laughed.

Mr Lyalls visited each classroom and inspired the children to collaborate their ideas to create some fantastic poems. The themes varied from love, friendship and justice to courage, bravery and respect. The children reflected on our school values and how they linked to the poems they had written.

It was a day filled with thought-provoking conversations and many laughs. Thank you to Paul Lyalls for the inspiration - we hope to see him again soon!

Ruby class hearing some of the poems in Paul's new collection

Ruby's collaborative poem, exploring the question 'what is love?' which we have been discussing in PSHE.

Sapphire class enjoying their input to a session that questioned 'what are friends?'

Sapphire class worked in table groups to write poems that beautifully described friendship. The children finished the session by illustrating their collaborative poems.

Diamond class

Diamond class

Emerald class

Emerald class

Emerald class