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

My Recipe for a Chocolate Farm

Ingredients
Chocolate seeds
Water
Flavourings
Tractors x 43
Mixer machines x 15
Diggers x 25
Sugar (lots)
Milk (lots)
Trailer
Workers (150)
Warm weather
Boxes
Wrapping
Lots of land (50 acres)
Shovels (75)

Approximate time: 2 years

Method
Buy lots of land to grow your chocolate on.
Gather your chocolate seeds and carefully dig small holes with your shovel and place your chocolate seeds in each hole covering the land.
Sprinkle your flavourings over each seed.
Next, water your seeds every day for two years, you should start to see different types of chocolate growing. When this starts to happen, cover with some sort of wrapping.
Use tractors etc to make sure all your chocolate is growing well.
Use diggers and mixers to mix your chocolate together when it has started to grow.
Use your other machinery to get your chocolate just right.
You can decorate your chocolate with wrapping.
When you have finished everything you can enjoy it too.

Danielle Brittain-Keal

Middlecott School's Poems