We are very pleased to announce that the winners of the 2007 SCEMES National Poetry Competition are:
First Prize: Jordannah Rees - What is More Important?
Second Prize: Mahala Woodhouse - His Evil Plan
Third Prize: Charlotte Francis - Reuse, Recycle, Reduce
We’d like to offer many congratulations to Jordannah, Mahala and Charlotte, whose imaginative, ambitious and thought-provoking poems made them deserving prize-winners.
All the finalists’ poems have now been published in an anthology entitled ‘The Green Book of Poetry’, which you can buy here.
The 2007 SCEMES National Poetry Competition on the theme of ‘The Environment’ was SCEMES’ first National Writing Competition and elicited a fantastic response from teachers and pupils nationwide.
Inspired by the DfES’ Sustainable Schools Consultation Document, the competition was designed to fit easily with the KS2 National Curriculum and raise the profile of sustainability in schools.
Through the competition, pupils were given a chance to raise their views in a debate in which almost everyone else has had their say. Their entries showed great passion for The Environment along with an understanding of complex issues that surpassed our expectations.
Phil Woolas MP, Minister of State for the Environment, who helped judge the competition, was impressed by the mature responses of the students.
He said: “The pupils have revealed a high level of understanding for this complex ecological problem and we can only hope that their engagement with it, through this competition, will encourage future sensitivity to the needs of the planet.”
Competition Judge Bill Laar added: “The writers displayed a real awareness and understanding of the nature, function and purpose of poetry and wrote with freshness and imagination.”
We were extremely impressed by the standard of all the poems submitted and would like to thank all the pupils who entered the competition.
All the finalists’ poems have now been published in an anthology entitled ‘The Green Book of Poetry’, which is available to purchase here. All profits from the sale of the book go to Plan, one of the largest child-centred community development organisations in the world.
To read more about the SCEMES 2007 National Poetry Competition, including details of judges, winner’s presentations, and prizes, visit our News Archive.