World Book Day: St Mary's Poetry Slam

St Mary’s kickstarted their World Book Day with a rollicking poetry slam, regaling assembly with classics like T. S. Eliot’s Macavity: The Mystery Cat and C. S Lewis’ The Late Passenger.

Poppy Burkitt, a Year 5 student dressed as Dorothy from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, said: “I’ve been lots of different characters like Hermione and Alice in Wonderland, but today I wanted to pick something old-fashioned. So I chose Dorothy because it fits into that theme.”

Freddie Hall, a Year 6 student dressed as Artemis Fowl from Eoin Colfer’s series of the same name, said: I’ve been here for three years, and I’ve done quite a few different things. To be perfectly honest with you, I just looked at my bookshelf, picked a book that I’d read and enjoyed, and just did that one.”

Catherine Yoxall, marketing and communications manager at St Mary’s School, added: “They’re reading across year groups, so the Year 6s are reading with reception and the Year 5s are reading with the Year 2s.

“The teachers are reading their favourite books as well as a quiz.”

“They’ve chosen characters from over 40 different books, so this morning we were all trying to guess which one was which. All the staff have dressed up too.”

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st mary's year 2 poetry slam

st mary's year 6 poetry slam

st mary's kayla grandison y1

st mary's y5 poppy burkitt y6 freddie hall

st mary's year 1 poetry slam

st mary's year 4 poetry slam

st mary's year 1 deacon smith as tin man from oz

st mary's tom rawlings y2

st mary's headmaster poetry slam intro

st mary's deacon smith as tin man and kayla grandison as dorothy, both y1