Bard presents fun and poems at Dingle Primary (From Stourbridge News)

Bard presents fun and poems at Dingle Primary

4:01pm Monday 22nd February 2010

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YOUNGSTERS at Kingswinford’s Dingle Primary School were treated to fun and poems when the Bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan stopped by.

One of Britain’s best-known poets, the Bard staged a workshop at the school after it scooped an award organised by The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation to inspire primary school youngsters to get creative and depict the British countryside at work.

Year six pupil Sophie Taylor won the verse section of the competition and earned the school a brand new laptop after her entry impressed a panel of judges comprising Mr McMillan, animal portrait and wildlife artist John Clarke and magazine photographer Paul Quagliana.

Year four youngster Charlotte Foster was voted runner-up in the photographic section and she won a book of poems for the school library, after her shot of a rockery - created by pupils - impressed the distinguished panel.

Headteacher Joy Wheeler said: “The children thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and assembly, it was a really good morning and the Bard was excellent.”

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