A massive well done to Abigail from 7IN who took second place in this year’s Alliance for Learning Teaching School poetry competition which was entitled ‘Coming Together’.
Abigail’s poem was entitled ‘2020 – A year to Remember’ and aptly described how the Covid 19 Pandemic this year, though terrible has actually Brought c
ommunities together and we coped. a really positive message as we near the end of 2020.
The competition had a significant number of entries which were judged externally by Andy Burnham, Alison Peacock, Hannah Wilson and Adrian Bethune – with Abigail being their 2nd favourite poem.
Abigail received as her prize a £20 book voucher for Waterstones, what a nice and well-deserved pre-Christmas treat.
2020 – A Year to Remember by Abigail Bennett.
Before all this happened
We were practically apart
No one ever spoke
It’s like we had on heart
Companies were growing
But hardly the trees
As they made more plastic
We were killing the seas
Everything was easy to buy
But hard to stop paying for
And even before we knew it
It came to our doors.
Suddenly, one day
A new virus spread
And the government was telling us
To keep a mask around our head
We couldn’t see others
And we had to isolate
With our annoying brothers.
Parents were going mad
Because of the schools
They had to be teachers
And try to play it cool.
But then people realised
We had to stay together
Because if we didn’t
It would be forever
So, we talked a lot more
Over the phone, of course
And we realised that
Tech was a good source
So, we met over Zoom
For quite a lot of chats
Some of us even spent time with our cats.
Captain Tom raised money
Joe Wicks did ‘keep fit’
We clapped for our carers
Even just for a bit
So even if we know
There could be more hope
2020 will always be
The year we had to cope.
