Seasonal Scribe Successes

After the fantastic success of our previous Key Stage 3 (KS3) creative writing competition, we decided to give the Year 7-9 students another challenge. For this competition we invited students to submit poetry OR prose, which encouraged some very inspiring responses! The theme of the new competition, in honour of the presence of a very cold winter, was ‘Seasons’.

KS3 submitted some brilliant entries, and it was a challenge to judge them. Freya (Year 8) and Xiaochu (Year 8) were close and deserve a special mention for their creativity, but our winners are…

Poetry: Sophia B (Year 9)                 Prose: Freya C (Year 8)

You can read Sophia’s nature-inspired poem and a section from Freya’s prose piece below. Congratulations to both writers! We look forward to seeing your submissions to our upcoming whole-school plot-writing challenge, which will honour ‘National Storytelling Week’ and will be introduced during Personal Development session in form time.

Miss A Natley

Scribes Lead

'Seasons' by Sophia B

I can never make my mind up.

Which season do I love best?

There are only four to choose from;

each one differs from the rest.

 

Perhaps the blooming days of Spring.

Crowned with April's raining garland,

the royal perfume of honeycomb and

placid, dew-kissed farmland.

 

Or Summer eves of gold

heavy with the haze 

of sun-drenched, ripened berries

and jovial, well spent days.

 

Autumn's bountiful harvest?

The air becomes mellow and cool.

Winding lanes carpeted in woven quilts

of dazzling, ruby jewels.

 

Maybe a chirp from robin red-breast,

or delicate, bashful frost.

Threading every silken cobweb 

with Winter's pearly drops.

 

No, I still cannot decide,

best to wait another year.

Though I will always be certain that

every season brings new cheer.