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 8

My red apple

Red apple, you shine like a star in the night sky,
you have a dimple like a smile,
when I bite into you your juice comes out like a fountain.
You are sweet like a fruit pastille,
you are shaped like a snooker ball,
you are smooth as a polished stone,
I will eat you all except for the pips
which I will plant.

Greg Hill

Middlecott School's Poems