On Monday 5th March, Poetry Club welcomed award winning poet and Young People’s Laureate for Wales, Sophie McKeand for a special poetry, performance and pizza lunch in which she chatted about life as a writer. We listened to Sophie perform one of her poems, which really encouraged everyone to think about how poetry also works off the page. Sophie also made everybody consider the possibility of writing as a career choice.
Afterwards, the whole of Year 7 spent the afternoon with Sophie. Firstly she performed a wonderful range of her poems in which she writes beautifully using imagery of the Welsh landscape; there is even one of her poems written around a pole in Bute Park as part a the Tree Charter Project!
Sophie then led a workshop on metaphors, helping the girls to explore language by mixing up metaphors and applying them to different subjects. The girls enthusiastically chatted about whether these new metaphors worked… and many of them did!
Some of the best:
‘The river was metal.’
‘His face was spaghetti!’
‘The tree was a scarf.’
After school, our BBC School Reporters Aleezah and Susanna from Year 8 interviewed Sophie too, which was a great experience for them.
Sophie commented on there being some ‘gifted young women’ at Howell’s and that she was ‘impressed with their enthusiasm and talent.’