National Poetry Day
Celebration of Reading
As part of our celebration of reading at Bourne Academy we celebrated National Poetry Day on the 3rd October 2019. The theme this year was ‘Truth’ and there were a range of activities in the library, in the English department and in morning registration for all years.
In form time students shared a video reading by Rachel Rooney of her poem ‘Truth or Dare’ where she asks ‘What do you secretly wish for most?’. In English Years 7, 8 and 9 responded to the National Poetry Day challenge set by inspirational poet Simon Mole, delivered via YouTube. His focus on the emotions words can express led to some thoughtful, rich poems from the students. KS3 students were invited to enter the Willoughby Memorial Trust Lincolnshire Poetry Competition and you can read some of their poems here. Hopefully we will have some prize winners!
Here we have some examples of the wonderful work produced by our students:
