We marked National Poetry Day with a chapel service written and delivered by the Lower Sixth A Level Literature group. The theme of this year’s NPD was ‘play’ and our pupils reflected on the importance of play in our lives by performing a range of poetry exploring this.
We began with poems about the value of playing as a child, with ‘The Laughing Song’ by William Blake, and then a group recital of the Mexican nursery rhyme ‘Lobo, lobito ¿estás ahí? – ‘Wolf, are you here?’. Our love of drama, plays and theatrical performance was represented by TS Eliot’s ‘Gus, the Theatre Cat’, whilst the pleasure and comfort we find in music was evoked by a reading of ‘The Gift to Sing’. And finally, we revelled in the fun (and silliness) that playing with language brings to us all, with a poem filled with words that only our pupils could fully comprehend – it was ‘pure skibidi’ and our A Level group ‘ate’ it!
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