Exeter School celebrates National Poetry day
The children in Exeter School’s Junior School took part in a Poetry Competition for National Poetry day.
Inspired by ‘Water, Water Everywhere’ from Coleridge’s Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, the poems focused on the subject of water and what it means to us,
The children’s poems covered water on our beaches, rivers, the water in our bodies and the water we drink and how lucky we are to be able to take it for granted.
There were three main winners across each of the year groups and ten runners up. The prizes will be awarded in the Junior School Assembly on Monday.
The Prince of Wales and Boris Johnson were among public figures who lent their support to the national celebration with recorded readings of Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas and part two of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge.
Also on National Poetry Day, a live performance of the punk poet John Cooper Clarke was broadcast in the Exeter Picturehouse and other cinemas across the country.
Founded in 1994 by William Sieghart, National Poetry Day is funded by the Arts Council to promote poetry across the country.
To listen to Prince Charles and Boris Johnson read poems visit here.
