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 7

The Storm

The storm is a raging bull
fierce and scary.
He runs on a field all day
with his strong horns that are scary,
week on week he stamps
bashing and crashing
bang bang bang
The angry bull stamps licking his painful wounds

And when the rain starts
And when the moon shines behind cloud
he jumps to his feet and looks around
shaking the rain off his wet coat
he whines and cries at his painful wounds.
But on odd days in May or June
he falls asleep
the rain is silenced.

Ben Jackson

Middlecott School's Poems