Primary 7 and Mrs Grant were thrilled when recently, Kate Clanchy, author, educator and poet, tweeted about our blog. She has retweeted the occasional poem from the school account and this is such positive reinforcement for our young poets. Well done Primary 7, your teacher is very proud of you and your work. And thank you Kate.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Thanks very much to Kate Clanchy who has provided the inspiration for many of the lessons in our class. Her wonderful book, ‘How to Grow a Poem‘, should be compulsory reading for everyone interested in teaching poetry in or outside of the classroom. Watch the clip below, it epitomises the approach.
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?”
The teachers witnessed an engaged group of young people from across the school working together creatively.
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