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 turkey

My turkey is brown red blue black
very fat with a long nose.
My turkey runs faster than a chicken,
my turkey came from a spotty egg.

My turkey lives wild in a field,
my turkey has lots of feathers,
my turkey smells disgusting now
but it will smell gorgeous in the oven.

I will build a safe place for my turkey in the garden,
I will protect it with a guard dog.

Reece Brinkley

Middlecott School's Poems