| 001
TODAY (place, weather) |
first day of the week
lying on the black cushion
nippy but warm
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| 002
SPRING (flower) |
__aqua coloured bluebells
__down in Sunderland
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| 003
SPRING (holiday, day off) |
oh yes! day off school
play out
on the frame
|
| 004
SPRING (holiday, day off) |
__climbing trees
__in the hot sun
|
| 005
SPRING (bird) |
cool!
I just saw a seagull
with its baby gull
|
| 006
SPRING (bird) |
__skylarks hover
__over bumpy ground
|
| 007
SPRING (river) |
with my fly-fishing rod
and feathers
I catch trout
|
| 008
SPRING (river) |
__people swim over
__the blue river
|
| 009
SPRING (river) |
flowing colours
of the dark
sparkly sky
|
| 010
SPRING (moon) |
__lemonade in your glass
__bold moon shimmers
|
| 011
LUCKY BAG (trading cards) |
Egyptian gods
with all the pieces
are the rarest
|
| 012
SPRING (clock’s changing, light evenings) |
__go to school late
__forgot to change the time
|
| 013
HOLIDAY (Easter Holidays) |
the Easter Bunny
saves chocolate eggs
for next year
|
| 014
SPRING (special event, day) |
__people round the streets
__do jokes
|
| 015
SPRING (animal) |
zoom in with a camera –
startled deer
run away
|
| 016
SPRING (wet things) |
__close to bubbled waterfalls
__a pile of muddy straw
|
| 017
SPRING (wet things) |
rain splashes down,
on the ground,
on the soaked puppy
|
| 018
SPRING (clothes) |
__decorated clothes lying
__in the ancient wardrobe
|
| 019
SPRING (blossom) |
cherry blossom
pink as it can be
on the disguised trees
|
| 020
SPRING (travel) |
__young men drive
__buzzy cars
|
| 021
SPRING (insects) |
the small black ant
crawls up
the long green spiky grass
|
| 022
SPRING (insects) |
__grasshopper jumping in
__the sun shines with buttercups
|
| 023
SPRING (food) |
on my plate
jersey royals
lettuce sandwiches
|
| 024
SPRING (F.A. Cup Final) |
__Viera scores the winner
__people hit inflated balls
|
| 025
MOON |
the astronomer
looks at the eclipsed moon
through his telescope
|
| 026
LUCKY BAG (airports) |
__airport bursting to the brim
__should calm down considerably
|
| 027
LOVE (family) |
cheeky Nathan,
artistic Daniel, funny Dominic,
are all brothers
|
| 028
LOCAL PLACE |
__spooky cemetery
__the gates are closed
|
| 029
LOCAL CASTLE |
ruined castle
sheltering from
the cold and rainy day
|
| 030
LUCKY BAG (mobile phones) |
__phone vibrates
__ring, ring,
beep, beep
|
| 031
EXAMS |
jog out for a rubber —
dreaded and
unfortunate exams
|
| 032
ROMANS |
__sweaty Romans
__built Hadrian's Wall
|
| 033
END OF SCHOOL YEAR |
colour in and make cushions
we can go off
for seven weeks
|
| 034
SUMMER (blue moon) |
__blue moon
__hardly ever comes
|
| 035
SUMMER (film) |
Drop Dead Fred
head jammed in freezer
tries to squeeze it out
|
| 036
SUMMER (Blackhall Rocks) |
__miners carry coal
__up the steps of the mine
|
| 037
SUMMER (clothes) |
sticky bod,
slapped lotion –
putting on my summer clothes
|
| 038
SUMMER (sunburn) |
__I never get sunburnt
__just go brown
|
| 039
SUMMER (paddling pool, water slide) |
climb up soaking stairs
shoot down kamikaze
splash! into bright blue water
|
| 040
SUMMER (paddling pool, water slide) |
__warm and wet
__dizzy and drowning
|
| 041
SUMMER (paddling pool, water slide) |
a toy octopus
found swimming
in the deep pool
|
| 042
SUMMER (foreign holidays) |
__sea turtles
__in the shallows
|
| 043
SUMMER (rainforest) |
slippy long snakes
trees sway
creeping with crawlies
|
| 044
SUMMER (fruit) |
__blueberries in salty water
__to get the maggots out
|
| 045
LOVE (missing friends) |
new holiday friends,
speak foreign languages,
hang out
|
| 046
LOVE (visiting relatives) |
__visiting relatives
__swims and 3-D cinema
|
| 047
SUMMER (postman, postcard) |
never know what’s coming
the postman brings letters
in his red van
|
| 048
LUCKY BAG (food and drink) |
__hot cup of tea
__and luscious cakes
|
| 049
SUMMER (shops) |
peaches
fat and juicy
in cool shops
|
| 050
SUMMER (colours) |
__red, purple, blue,
__colourful horizon
|
| 051
SUMMER (garden flowers) |
scattered daisies
bulrushes in a pond –
glistening
|
| 052
SUMMER (garden flowers) |
__sunflower on the wall
__killed by
dad’s weedkiller
|
| 053
SUMMER (bees and wasps) |
the bee stings me –
the queen
is lying in her hive
|
| 054
SUMMER (woods) |
__next to the forest
__grasshoppers jumping
|
| 055
SUMMER (meadow flowers) |
dozy in the meadow
after our picnic
there go the dandelions in the wind
|
| 056
SUMMER (strawberries) |
__the farm lady picks
__plump strawberries
|
| 057
SUMMER (Wimbledon, tennis) |
tennis balls galore –
run for shelter
because of the rain
|
| 058
SUMMER (farms and fields) |
__the ducks quack and the pigs
__charge into the clarty field
|
| 059
MOON |
slight cloud
covered the moon
ugly craters, funny face
|
| 060
DREAMS (dream, nightmare) |
__the headmaster had no ears
__I blew up the school
|
| 061
AUTUMN (school uniforms) |
positive attitude
Umbro trainers
and trackie bottoms
|
| 062
AUTUMN (new school year) |
__new teacher is mint
__plays jenga during class
|
| 063
AUTUMN (young kids at school) |
in reception
Jolly Phonics and
‘don’t eat the sand’
|
| 064
AUTUMN (cats or dogs) |
__Sheba and Shogun
__in the bath when they’re dirty
|
| 065
AUTUMN (mist, fog, cloudy weather) |
foggy in China
misty in Malta
cloudy in England
|
| 066
LUCKY BAG (Dr Who) |
__flying about in a blue Tardis
__what’s up with the stripy scarf?
|
| 067
AUTUMN (new football season) |
football volleyed in the air –
sitting with my hot chocolate
I wish I had a hat
|
| 068
AUTUMN (local travel) |
__melted Galaxy
__in the Nissan Skyline
|
| 069
AUTUMN (conkers or nuts) |
walk round the park –
conkers scattered on the grass
noisy squirrels chew acorns
|
| 070
ANCIENT GREEKS |
__soldiers in a cave
__tell stories about Achilles
|
| 071
AUTUMN (blood moon) |
veteran at the Cenotaph
poppy in his buttonhole
what’s the point?
|
| 072
AUTUMN (Halloween) |
__orange pumpkin
__glows in the dark
|
| 073
AUTUMN (fireworks) |
wait for the big bang —
flaming rockets
right above the houses
|
| 074
AUTUMN (food or cooking) |
__cheese falls
__from the sky
|
| 075
AUTUMN (food or cooking) |
an outrageous
mixed grill
at the Half Moon
|
| 076
AUTUMN (food or cooking) |
__apples rolled in chocolate
__and sprinkles
|
| 077
AUTUMN (family, home) |
come and visit —
bring your family
get 10% discount
|
| 078
LOVE (loneliness) |
__Friday night – I don’t like
taking
__the dog out on my own
|
| 079
AUTUMN (leaves) |
black, brown, red leaves
all piled up
in the horse field
|
| 080
AUTUMN (clocks changing) |
__extra hour’s sleep
__choose wisely what you dream
|
| 081
AUTUMN (spider) |
sitting up late watching movies
eight hairy legs
bobbing up and down
|
| 082
AUTUMN (shiny things) |
__lookalike threads, stars
__glisten in the dark
|
| 083
AUTUMN (life boat, ferry, fishing boat) |
the lighthouses's warning –
shiny waves churn below us
nets bounce in the water
|
| 084
LOCAL (bridge) |
__iron held up by ropes and fumes –
__throw out our rods
|
| 085
PLANETS/STARS |
planets spin on their axes –
a comet's on the go
in the moonlit sky
|
| 086
AUTUMN (dentist) |
__black holes in my teeth,
__whiff of antiseptic
|
| 087
WINTER (frozen food) |
freezing cold and shivering
ice cream in a tub –
what's for tea?
|
| 088
WINTER (slush) |
__a slippy-slidy slush
__b-r-r-r brain-freeze
|
| 089
WINTER (illnesses, runny noses) |
lost leg pulse
op success
able to throw snowballs for life
|
| 090
LOVE (best friend) |
__the basketball broke my thumb —
__I wish my best friend was here
|
| 091
WINTER (a winter story) |
Frosty the Snowman
frightening when
starts talking unexpectedly
|
| 092
WINTER (Christmas cards) |
__ding! dong! ding! dong!
__goes the annoying card
|
| 093
WINTER (Christmas songs) |
feeeeed the world
let them know it’s Christmas time
feeeeed the world
|
| 094
MOON (cold, ice or snow moon) |
__the cold moon orbits round the earth
__every day of the year
|
| 095
WINTER (birds) |
birds fly
around the cold
chilly sky
|
| 096
LUCKY BAG (hair products) |
__my hair is so big
__gel flattens it down
|
| 097
WINTER (getting up in the dark) |
I wake up staring in the mirror
in still darkness –
shadows from my lava lamp
|
| 098
WINTER (Christmas tree, presents) |
__baubles on the tree –
__I’d love a horse, but it won’t
happen
|
| 099
WINTER (prints in the snow) |
foxes run along the sheet
through the snow-covered garden –
my mam likes that
|
| 100
FLOWER (snowdrop) |
__little white snowdrops
__dance in the wind
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Alec
Finlay Lead Artist
Ira Lightman (master)
Ken Cockburn (master)
Subhadassi (master)
Linda France (master)
Beth Rowson (master)
and the poets of Easington Colliery Primary
School |
