SCHOOL POETRY COMPETITION 2015

For the first time this year the Limpsfield Community Orchard has sponsored a poetry competition at Limpsfield Infant School. Each child was asked to think about visiting the Orchard and to describe their thoughts and feelings about apples and pears and write about this in a poem. Writing the poems was done during school time and Jenny Baird (Headmistress) and Dr Julia Nash (Head of Science) gave tremendous support as did each of the other class teachers.

The results were excellent. Much was made of the crunchiness, the redness and the readiness to be eaten. We hope very much that the children will remember their early days at school and the happy visits they have made to the Orchard to see the trees at every season, the blossom and this year trying the apples too.

We, the Community Orchard, were delighted to be able to give each reception class a book about apples, and individual prizes were awarded to Yr 2s Emma Newton, Connie McMillan, Maisie Felstead and Yr 1s Katherine Dawson and Emma Kitchen

The prizes were presented during School Assembly by Helen Ellson (Chair LCO) and afterwards the prize winners walked up to the Orchard to hang copies of some of the poems in the trees so that visitors to the Orchard can see them.