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Minchinhampton pupils have hit the headlines of the Stroud News and Journal with their poetry.

read the full article here: https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/18508294.minchinhampton-primary-schoolers-produce-poems-express-feelings-pandemic/

Tess and Austin in Year 6 took their inspiration from their experiences in lockdown.

Mr Moss said:

Talking, expressive arts and creativity are vital ways for children to explore their relationship to these immensely challenging and confusing events.”

“The poems our students are writing are incredibly moving and an invaluable reminder of how much our young people are absorbing and processing at the moment. Children now back in school have been decorating thank you cards containing Tess’ brilliant poem to send out to our local hospitals, as well as talking and playing a lot, creating art, climbing trees, digging, planting, telling stories, doing yoga and mindfulness and being given plenty of autonomy to draw upon their individual interests and strengths.

Austin’s poem is visionary and full of sensitive insight about a brighter future, one that ultimately lies in the hands of our young people. Perhaps we’ll send a copy to Downing Street.”

 

‘Superheroes’ by Tess

Did you see it going past?
Lights a blaring, sirens blast,
Superheroes work within,
To save somebody else’s kin,
Working through the day and night,
Speeding through the traffic light,
Going out to save the life
Of someone’s daughter, someone’s wife.

Stay home stay safe;

To help the heroes in the van,
To do the best work that they can,
It’s the least you can do
To help the heroes see it through,
For all the brilliant work they’ve done
To save someone’s brother, father, son.
To the superheroes in the van,
Doing the best work that they can:
Thank you.

Superheroes wear a cape?
And they help you to escape –
From baddies big and strong?
That is where you’ve got it wrong.
No – they help you to escape,
From your ever-nearing fate,
They aren’t extremely big or tall,
Superheroes wearing scrubs are the very best kind of all.

You see, superheroes don’t wear capes,
Although they help you to escape,
Not from heroes big and strong –
That’s where you have got it wrong.
No – they help you to escape,
From your ever-nearing fate,
They aren’t extremely big and tall;

Superheroes wearing scrubs are the best kind of them all.

 

‘I Opened the Magic Door’ by Austin, 11:

I opened the magic door
and saw a child turning the page of the world.

I opened the magic door
to see the rainbow colours of hope constructed for the NHS

I opened the magic door
and felt freedom escaping capture.

I opened the magic door
and saw the world ripped apart by climate change, but being rebuilt.

I opened the magic door
to find nature wrapped in plastic, but unfolding slowly for freedom.

I opened the magic door
and touched blue sky brightening up the world from the darkness of industrialisation.

I opened the magic door
and found people not in the room, but more together in frames.

I opened the magic door
and saw the world getting healthier. It was smiling back at me.

I opened the magic door
and felt our lives finally on the ground, not below or above.

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