Competitions inspire creative writing and poetry speaking - 9/3/10

Published: 09 March, 2010

Hot on the heels of Creative Arts Week and the visits by former Poet Laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, and novelists, Babs Horton and Tim Bowler, students in Years 7 to 10 were tasked with writing stories or poems on the subject of "Brave New World". 

Some students in Years 11 to Upper Sixth took part voluntarily.  All finalists won points for their Houses.  The winners were:

Year 7 winner: Heloise Wormleighton; runner up: Ross Gittins
Year 8 joint winners: Kevin Vandabona and Paul Vallis        
Year 9 winner: Phoebe Hirst; runner up: Alistair Williams
Year 10 joint winners: Emma Pearson and Clarissa Hocking
Year 11 winner: Kieran Beckenkraeger; runner up: Libby Miller
Sixth Form winners: Seb Watts and Fred Wild; runners up: Zoe Malone and Amalie Bleackley
Overall winner: Seb Watts

The Year 7 Poetry Speaking winner was Bobby Davies.  Paul Vallis won in Year 8 with the poem he had written for Creative Writing.  The runners up were Billy Goord and Annabel Norris.  These four pupils recited their poems at the Creative Arts Celebration Evening as did some of the Creative Writing winners Heloise Wormleighton, Seb Slade (on behalf of Emma Pearson), Kieran Beckenkraeger and Seb Watts.