Over the past few weeks, the Key Stage 2 classrooms have been filled with rhyme and rhythm as the children took part in Poetry by Heart lessons and competitions. We studied a variety of poems in class and learned to recite them expressively.
Many of the children then chose to perform their favourite verses in their year group’s Poetry by Heart competition. The standard of each event was very high and the teachers were impressed by the children’s enthusiasm and commitment.
Congratulations to the nine of our students who won their respective year group competitions.
These nine children then took part in our school poetry final last week, and once again, the quality of the performances was excellent. Three of the students were chosen to represent BSP in the ELSA France Poetry by Heart Competition later in the month, where they competed against children from English-speaking schools across France.
Thirty children from eleven different English-speaking schools took part in the competition, which was held at Malherbe International School.
The first student captivated the judges and audience alike with her very entertaining performance of Robert Hull’s ‘Do Not Feed the Animals’, taking first place in the Years 3 and 4 category.
The second BSP student gave an expressive recitation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Moon’ in the same age group, and the third pupil’s rendition of Gertrude Heath’s ‘What the Fly Thinks’ in the Years 5 and 6 category perfectly captured the spirit of this quirky poem.
