Woodlands Farm
Children's Poetry Competition
Woodlands Farm's writer in residence, Clare Best, organised poetry competitions at two local schools: Kirton Primary School and Middlecott School Kirton. Children wrote on subjects connected with the farm and with healthy eating. Many of the poems entered were written at Clare's workshops following school visits to the farm.
Gerard Benson, the well known children's poet and performer, and founder of 'Poems on the Underground', was competition judge and prize-giver. On National Poetry Day, October 6, he performed his own poems, read out the children's winning poems and awarded certificates and prizes at special assemblies at both schools.
Middlecott School Winners
Year 9
Recipe for a mixed and berry farm
Ingredients
50 strawberry, raspberry and blackcurrant bushes
pig as a farmer
cat as a sheepdog
1 chicken
1 cow
12 acres of leaves
Method
On my leaves
with upside-down berry bushes
with my pig farmer
and his sheepcat
I egg the cows and milk the chickens
Annie Smith
- For children
- go back to the children's homepage
- Kirton Primary
- read the Kirton Primary poetry competition winner's poems
- Middlecott School
- read the Middlecott School poetry competition winner's poems
Middlecott School's Poems
- The Storm
- By Ben Jackson, Year 7
- Colours
- By Allison Hardy, Year 7
- Food Fun
- By Jade Lunn, Year 7
- The Canteen
- By Sharleen Butler, Year 7
- I will put in the magic box for my best mate
- By Jenny Anderson, Year 8
- I will put in the magic box for my mum, dad and brother
- By Rebecca Sansam, Year 8
- I will put in the magic box for my mum
- By Nick Woodward, Year 8
- My Angry Bull
- By Aidan Louth, Year 8
- My Red Apple
- By Greg Hill, Year 8
- I will put in the magic box for my mum
- By Christian Sharpe, Year 8
- I will put in the magic box for my mum
- By Jordan Scott, Year 8
- I will put in the magic box for my mum
- By Kerry Fletcher, Year 8
- My Turkey
- By Reece Brinkley, Year 8
- Recipe for a mixed and berry farm
- By Annie Smith, Year 9
- My Recipe for a Mixed Farm
- By Karen McConkey, Year 9
- My Recipe for a Chocolate Farm
- By Danielle Brittain-Keal, Year 9
- Recipe for an Animal Mad Farm
- By Paige Wilson, Year 9
- Recipe for a large turkey farm
- By Jordan Cleaver, Year 9