Poetry week

06 Sep

We held Poetry week at Westland High this year. What a great way to celebrate students literary aspirations.

Poetry Week was held here at school in the Library and we ran a Hapu Poetry Competition to celebrate it!

Entries had to be submitted to the Library or shared with Mrs O’Malley digitally via the entry form. Each person could enter as many times as they wanted, provided they used the entry form each time. Each valid entry received 1 x Hapu point. There were winners for Junior, Middle school and Senior divisions. Students could also use a poem they had written as part of their classwork, or something they had written in their own time. Poems were displayed in the library.

Well done to all the students who participated. Congratulations to the below students who placed.

Junior School

• 1st place Louis Pierson

• 2nd place Renny Jones

• 3rd place Charlotte Everest

Middle School

• 1st place Jordy Terei

• 2nd place Grace Parker

Senior School

• 1st Alice Powell “Forgive me Brother”

• 2nd Yvette Butcon “Environment”

• 3rd equal Jacob Kelly “Gothic Sonnet for Earth” and Lucas Bell “The Power of Greed”

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