Annette Ward and the wonderful kids of Room 17 wrote this poem.
We are Room 17 at Russley School. Here is our poem about our first winter at school. We are a year 0-1 class, we are all five years old and have only started school this year.
I love the way you have gathered wintry words and made them sound so good! PG
My name is Daisy. I am 9 years old from St Andrew’s College in Christchurch.
This poem comes alive with wintry detail as Daisy reads it.
Janice Marriott is a multi- award-winning writer of novels, memoir, short stories and children’s books, songs, radio stories, documentaries and plays, and TV scripts.She has won the NZ Post Junior Fiction Award, Aim Senior Fiction Award, Aim Book of the Year, the Esther Glen Medal for Fiction, and been awarded, in 2018, the Margaret Mahy medal for lifetime achievements in the field of children’s literature.
She has published poems in the NZ Treasury of Children’s Poems, School Journals, and the NZ Poetry Anthology. Her poetry blog, active for 7 years, is here.
Janice now helps other people write their stories and poetry here. Her assessment, tutoring and mentoring business shows how writing can soothe us, challenge us, and give us satisfaction and friendship.
Leah F, age 10yrs, goes to Russley School.
The poem dances with delicious wintry words and a warm cosy ending.
Finn D, age 11 yrs, goes to Russley School.
Adorable poem with bright similes and sizzling facts and a little story running though!
And soup and bread to warm you up!
Kyla H (age 10 yrs), a Russley School year 5/6 student.
So many wonderful things make this poem – purple boot, elephants, a giraffe!
St Francis’s School’s Room 3. They are Year 3/4 aged 7 and 8.
Some lively wintry lines in a lively wintry poem.
What a magnificent ode to ice!
Tom N
Age 9
Year 5
Hoon Hay School
Ziyang – Year 6 – Royal Oak School
Sizzling similes! What fun to write
from 10 year old Robbie, from Russley School’s Year 5/6 Writing Group.
In especially love the last line – great rhythm!
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