What do you want to be?

Do you sometimes want to disappear, go unnoticed, have no attention drawn to you? Maybe you would like to go in disguise somewhere so no one would recognise you.
The reverse might be true, you want to stand out, have people look up to you and admire you. Laugh at your jokes. Whatever you want to be or however you want others to see you this is a great poem to express just that!

Primary 7 have written poems after listening to Selima Hill’s Cow poem and another from our own S6 pupil, Emma. 

P7 worked with S6 earlier in the year and really enjoyed hearing their voices and getting some feedback on their own creative work. A big thank you to Emma for giving us her poem as part of our lesson. P7 thought her poem was very moving and talked at length about the different parts. 

Read Emma’s poem here.

Read the P7 poems here.

 

Where do you come from?

We wrote the poems below after reading and discussing Robert Seattar’s  and Dean Atta’s ‘I Come From’. These poems are about memories, growing up, celebrating joy and talking about our cultural identity. 

Our teacher has written one too and we’d love to share some written by parents. Go on have a go! Click on the link below and read the poem a few times. You can try your own version using references to the sounds, sights and smells of your childhood. Write about what you remember. Write quickly, without thinking about it too much. Let us know how you get on. 

I Come From Robert Seatter

I Come From by Dean Atta

Check out our poems here

You can also check out this clip from the BBC made with Kate Clanchy our poetry muse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-bradford-west-yorkshire-47500026

Raymond Antrobus

This week we have been listening to the work of Raymond Antrobus. The class have discussed his work as a poet and we were particularly impressed by clips about his response to the hearing world.

After watching the poem, ‘The First Time I Wore Hearing Aids’ we talked about the hearing and the deaf world and how isolating it must be with everyone wearing facemasks if you are trying to lipread.

His poem, ‘I Want the Confidence of’ inspired us to write our own.
After reading them think about what you lack
and what you want.

Click here to see our poems

 

Above and Beyond

One of our P7 poets has been reading and researching poetry in her own time. We’ve been using metaphors and similes in our poems this week and she brought in this poem to show me this morning. This is a wonderful piece and I am impressed that Evie has taken time to find a poem that fits so perfectly with our current focus.

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My Heart

Now I can run on the wind

My skin like a velvet shiver on the breeze

My hooves passing over the grass

In leaps too great to be measured

My mane trembling like the boiling clouds

You will feel my breath

In the sounds of the sky

Now I can run

In these great wild rolling hills of time

I am free

I am really free

Hear in

The

Spaces of

Your heart

Edited and typed by Evie

Published in Heartland FM’s magazine!

Our local radio station, Heartland FM provides an online community magazine once a month. We are thrilled to be featured in this month’s edition. Click on the Power Point, you’ll find us on page 19. Thank you to Bruce at Heartland who provided us with the opportunity. Next month we hope to upload some new poems with soundscapes. If any of the Highland Perthshire primary schools are interested in joining us with some poetry of their own, please let us know! We love a collaborative opportunity.

Wings

If I had wings 

I would fly to the moon and touch the surface 

If I had wings 

I would taste the clouds and feel the softest 

If I has wings  

I would walk on water and listen to the calm waves of the sea 

If I had wings I would soar above the Earth into the darkness of the night 

If I had wings  

I would gaze into space and look at the glistening stars of the night sky 

If I had wings 

I would listen to the sound of nature 

If I had wings 

I would breath the air in the clouds above

Working with S6

P7 had a wonderful opportunity as part of National Poetry Day.  We got to work with Mr Milne’s Higher Advanced Poetry class. It enabled the S6 pupils to lead the learning and the P7 pupils were able to hear poems and try out some of their ideas with an older (more experienced) writer. 

Mrs Grant asked the P7s
“What did you enjoy about the session with S6?”

  • Chatting to someone older and hearing their poetry was really good.
  • Listening to someone else’s work, someone you don’t know, with experience.
  • Hearing the S6’s poems gave me inspiration.
  • Just chatting to them was great, I got lots of ideas. 
  • Telling us to listen for that ‘feeling’ when reading. Ben (S6) said, ‘If you don’t feel something when reading your poem, then you need to change it’. 

The teachers witnessed an engaged group of young people from across the school working together creatively.

 

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