Patron Of Reading, pt2: Poetry With Year 8 at Stalham High

Yesterday I posted on my blog a brief report of my first visit to Stalham High School, Norfolk, as their new Patron Of Reading. I shared some lovely work that was done by Year 7 during my visit. During my visit I also worked with a small group of Year 8 students, who wrote poems about wishes. As with Year 7 I was struck by their quirky, often surreal sense of humour. Here are some of their lovely poems:

I wish I could fly! (By Ben)

I wish I could fly,

Escape the sly,

The ones who make me down,

and frown.

If I could fly,

I would never need a plane.

No passport,

no more.

When I fly,

I will fly with an eagle,

carrying a lamb,

And some airborne ham.

Pig!

Flying

pig!

I wish…(By Will)

I wish I lived in America or Australia,

I could go “down under”  in Australia

With the cool kangaroo in the outback,

And spend a night in its pouch.

Then get the kangaroo to dig through the earth,

So I can reach America.

And tan myself until I look like a bronze statue,

Then parade myself through the streets in a Ferrari.

This is how I want to live.

I wish I had a pet leopard (By Sam)

I wish I had a pet leopard.

Not a lion.

Not a tiger.

Not a lemur.

But a leaopard.

That eats annoying mice

and pedestrians