Celebrating World Poetry Day with the Nature Park
To mark World Poetry Day, we are excited to share this Nature Park collective poem which was created by pupils at a testing day in July 2023, and performed by St Philip's CofE Primary School. It is introduced by poet Dom Conlon, who ran the activity with pupils at RHS Bridgewater last year.
Our school is a place where we respect biodiversity and its habitats
Our school isn’t a place where we take advantage of natural resources
Our school is a place for wildlife to be cherished
Our school isn’t made to be empty
Our school is made to be full of life
Gardens are bright and colourful, not gloomy and desperate
Our school isn’t made for sadness or feeling lonely
It's a place for peacefulness where we all can play
Our school is a place for nature to rule
Our school is not a place for bare soil
Our school is a place for nature where you can smell all the beautiful flowers
Bright flowers with a vision of perfection
Our school is not a place full of electric artificial light but full of sunshine and rainbows
Our school is a place for life and adventure
Where children and nature are nourished and well-nurtured
A special thank you to the following schools who attended the testing day and contributed to the collective poem:
- Christ the King RC Primary School, Salford
- Ellenbrook Primary School
- Salford City Academy
- St Philip’s CofE Primary School, Atherton
- St Edmund’s RC Primary School, Salford
- Westhoughton High School
The Nature Park’s Write a poem activity, created in collaboration with The Poetry Society, encourages children and young people to imagine the future of their outdoor space through the process of poetry. This is a great activity to start thinking about the impact different changes could have for people and nature on your site.