Best Class delved into the world of poetry this week. 

We connected our whole school learning around the month of Remembrance with the poem 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon. The poem was written at the time of WW1 and is a tribute to the fallen soldiers during the war. It is now renowned as the poem that is read before the 2-minute silence at 'Remembrance Sunday'.

We studied the archaic language that is used and the different types of figurative language that are used to create imagery in the readers' mind, from personification to alliteration. 

Our Head Boy and Head Girl recited this during our Monday Worship to support our commemoration of Remembrance day. 

In class, we performed this poem to the class working on our poetry reading skills with intonation and gestures to support it. 

Finally, we wrote our own poems that were based around the remembrance of our time at school. We did this through the English Curriculum Vision Statement: 

Be a reader. 

Be a writer. 

Be a communicator.