World Book Day 2016 - Visit of Birmingham's Young Poet Laureate, Serena Arthur!

A very special guest visited Chilcote on March 2nd 2016, named Serena Arthur, the young Poet Laureate of Birmingham. As part of her amazing role, Serena has been travelling to fortunate schools across Birmingham to offer helpful advice on how to perform and write poetry. 

Despite only being seventeen years old, amazingly, Serena has written over fifty inspiring poems! She has written creations such as: Remember, Remember (the poem that won her the Poet Laureate competition), as well as work based on the themes of war, modernity and reality.

Chilcote pupils were very lucky to hear Serena's poems as part of a fantastic assembly; she read a couple of her favourite ones in front of the whole school (including a poem she wrote specifically for deaf children). Furthermore, she also visited Year 6 to recite a few more pieces that were aimed at more older children (such as a poem about Remembrance Day and the Holocaust). 

All of Chilcote's children learnt lots of other useful information too, as the School Council asked Serena questions about how she became such a spectacular poet. For example, we gleamed that Serena initially failed in her attempt to win the Poet Laureate competition; she had to demonstrate great resilience to come back the following year and win! This was truly an inspiring guest speaker!

Thank you for reading. We hope that all the children enjoyed the guest speaker as much as we did! Thank you to Serena (and her Dad) for visiting. 

Roberta and Dawud

Year 6 

Chilcote School Council.