Connections Writing Extension: A Year Six group of students was provided with the challenge of producing poems that would be suitable for submission to a poetry competition organized by 'Tall Poppies'. The theme 'connections' provided ample scope for abstraction of ideas. The group assembled once a week over a period of six weeks to study poetic form with Mrs Hunter. The difficult phase for most students was the transition from a narrative style into poetic structure. Most students wrote in free verse while Laouena selected rhyming couplets as her structure. While ideas and methods to express these came rapidly to some students, other students found themselves redrafting a number of times. Completed work is the result of much determination and hard work. To ensure that the rules of the competition were abided by, students were asked not to share their work at home until it was completed. Poems will appear on the Blog over the course of the next four weeks. Poem One: It is very apparent that global trends with respect to the environment concern Jesse. If all people felt the same Jesse, we may have a solution.

Poem Two: Pigeon Post, a poem written by Roisin plays with the theme 'connections'. The idea of mail and distance is interwoven with the relationship between the bird and its caretaker.