Photographs from 2007 Readathon
Jack and Jill a.k.a. Matthew and Glenda, helped each other dress up for the Readathon, they then called upon the classes to come up and show which book characters the children had dressed as and to say their poems.
Class 1and 7 came to the stage together, where Lady Yvette led Class 1 in enacting:
A Knight and a Lady
A Knight and Lady went
Riding one day
Far into the forest
Away, away
Dear Knight said the Lady,
Oh please have a care,
this forest is evil
Beware, beware.
A fiery green dragon they
Spied in the grass
The Lady wept sorely
Alas, Alas.
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The Knight slew the dragon
The Lady was gay
They rode off together
Away, Away. |
Class 7’s recited a heart felt poem that the class had composed collectively.
Our World Wish
If only the world was at peace
If violence and fighting would cease
If every one lived in honesty
The world would be in harmony
If one day we could all respect
We could rid the world of
neglect
Our humanity to protect
And selfishness to reject
If tomorrow the world was living with food
All people would be in a better mood,
All the worries in the streets would be gone,
And many people would be filled with song |
Then pupils from class 7 recited their own poems:
Alex Lehtinen’s Flower Fun
Oh! To be a sunflower above the ground
To have roots to hold me sound,
While having the fun of my life
Playing with my future wife
Rustling my leaves with the aid of the breeze,
I will be a beautiful flower,
With oh so much geometric power.
Rustling my leaves with the aid of the breeze,
I will be a beautiful flower,
With oh so much geometric power.
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Teya Beele’s Beauty
A sunrise or set
Which fills me with awe
It’s truly so hard
To find one small flaw
The clouds that gather
As soft as wool,
And the light that filters through
Sometimes as cool
As the rain that could fall.
In just hearing it’s name
A picture will form;
Sometimes I’m torn
The freshest sun rises,
The deepest sunsets
Are all full of surprises
As we pass one each day
It’s beauty for which
I never need pay. |
Julia Munroe’s Colourful Fruits
Colourful fruits
And big brown roots
I stand up tall and straight
When wind blows by
I cannot deny
I love this cool, sweet state
My big green leaves
Sway in the breeze
Dancing to and fro
And all around
I hear sweet sound
Of singing birds below. |
Rowan Hyland’s Flying Dreams
I wish to fly, like a bird in the sky,
Softly soaring, wonderfully high.
Why can’t I?
The wrong bone-structure, arms not wings,
Wanting to change these evolutionary things
I can only fly in man-made machines
wanting to believe so hard in my
dreams.
But dreams are enough, my imagination flies,
And wanting to be there, I just close my eyes. |
Nicholas Frayne’s A Wish
O I wish the sunshine would come down
On me and my great thick green crown,
The wind will push me leaves around
And as I sway my roots will grow
Delve deeper than others before
The river tumbles past my bough
And I would feel the squirrels jump
Up and down my massive trunk,
O I would stay there for a hundred years
But still I would not tire. |
Class 2 recited
The Fox and Grapes
“What luscious grapes,” said a hungry for;
“What fine, good grapes,” said he.
“If I jump as high as a clever fox can
I’ll have those grapes for tea.”
So he jumped and he leaped and he snapped with his teeth,
But only the air could he bite,
While the grapes, sweet and juicy, dangled above,
And swayed at a lofty height. |
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