'Goshoowa Seigal'

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of working with Year 2 children at Whitmore Primary School in Hackney, which I have now visited three times. We wrote poems about monsters and other strange creatures. I shared my poem Brontosaurus Rap, in order to demonstrate use of onomatopoeia and chorus within a poem. A while after the visit I bumped into one of their teachers, who passed on to me a note that some of the children had written. They seem to have absorbed the notion of onomatopoeia well, although I was primarily struck by the inventive and charming spelling of my name. Behold:

The poem (or 'song', as the children called it) was accompanied by a lovely thank you note, imploring 'Mr. Gosh' to visit their school again. 

This is why I get up in the morning.