The Judges' feedback from our Poetry Performance Competition. March 2015

2. Poet and
performer.
Professional
children's
poet.
Performance poet and
percussionist, writer in
schools, picture book
writer,
editor of many poetry

3. Judges’ Thoughts on the
competition:
Many thanks for sending me
your choral poems, they were
a delight to watch!
Keep up the good work,
poetry is obviously alive and
well in your wonderful school!
Ian Bland
Wow, how amazing!!
I can see that loads of work
went into all of these, and
everyone should be really
proud of themselves!
Joshua Seigal
Great to see schools trying
something different as you
did this year, a pleasure to
have been involved.
Brian Moses

5. Judge Feedback:
• All the children in this poem were
obviously having lots of fun! I enjoyed
watching their actions and I was
impressed how confident they were in
reciting their lines.

7. Judge Feedback:
• I really enjoyed watching this poem!!I
loved the clear diction and varied use
of expression. The pace of the poem
was carried off really well and the
excellent use of props made it very
exciting. The children changed the
volume very well and obviously had a
lot of fun doing the performance!

9. Judge Feedback:
• The children worked very well as a
team in this poem and I was especially
impressed with their use of percussion.
They were confident in reciting their
poem and did well in getting the
humour across to the audience.

11. Judge Feedback:
• The actions and attention to detail in
this poem were very slick. The children
worked well in their groups and really
got the fun and sense of the poem
over to the audience!!