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

I will put in the magic box for mum

My box is made of all my love,
of stars that twinkle in the glowing night sky.
And of all those good memories that passed.

I will put in my box
The texture of a cow's velvety ear,
Red and green apples,
Snowy white turkey feathers;
The lumpy cauliflower
And the smooth green cabbage.

I will put in my box
A big sound of a tractor,
A liitle sound of a lambs baa.

And especially for my Mum,
The taste of a freshly picked,
Juicy apple.

Kerry Fletcher

Middlecott School's Poems