Poetry is rhythm and music and sounds and beats, but children very rarely recognise the power of poetry the special pleasure you can get from memorizing a favourite poem or reading it again and again and the ability to inspire emotions when you create one. It is difficult as to where to start writing poems as they come in a wide variety of flavours from succinct haikus, rhyming couplets etc... the-sky-is-the-limit.
The Winchester school children recognise the elements of a poem and explore different ways of writing one as Poetry not only promotes literacy but it also helps to build community thus fostering emotional resilience. Children become familiar with the meaning of words and sentences, sentence structure, rhymes, and vocabulary.
As our students composed their own poetry they discovered a new, limitless world of expression that is just as fun to share with others as it is to create.
