POETRY LAND – ASSEMBLY ITEM

We’re about to take an exciting trip to poetry land,

However, we realise that this has not been well planned.

Buckle your seat belts and enjoy the view,

We’re going to a unique place and we’re taking you.

Now poetry land is such a special place,

It’s astounding, it’s astonishing, it’s really quite ace.

This is the opening verse to Room 22’s Poetry themed assembly extravaganza, which we performed on the 17^th of October 2014, the first assembly of the term. Topics for the assembly were in full flow, with everything from superhero skits to commemorate our work at Leeming to the extremely creative idea of singing pop music in different languages, but the topic that prevailed was the ‘Welcome to Poetry Land.’ Which categorised our work on poetry, from the simple aspects of rhyme to the trickier personification, imagery and vocabulary. However, our assembly was still lacking the ‘creative touch’ used to make our assembly special, so we came up with something else- we decided we would do the assembly IN RHYME! This seemed like a difficult task at first, but we were able to get into groups deciding on what topic we wanted to do and write some very sensational poetry to serve as the script for our assembly. The plot of our assembly follows the poetry journey of a boy named Peng as he learns each aspect of poetry- from writing his first rhyme to mastering the difficult aspects of vocabulary. Along the way, we were also secretly teaching the audience all about writing great poems- while rhyming all the way! Congratulations to Room 22 on a truly fantastic assembly- we should be so proud!

- Bella

In just week one of term number four,

Room 22 dropped jaws to the floor.

Putting on a play of rhyming grandeur,

With every student acting totally mature.

Delivered in rhyme, and full of fun,

The audience sat still until it was done.

In the planning, everyone had a say,

As it slowly formed, much like clay.

All about poetry, as I’m sure you know,

Nice and smooth, not taut like a bow.

Following the path of a lad named Peng,

You know, that kid with the last name Sheng.

Packed with wisdom about poetry,

And completely serious, well, mostly.

Teaching you imagery, rhyme as well,

Fortunately; Peng caught on just swell.

- Sean