1 October 2020
This year Abingdon School’s celebration of National Poetry Day has moved online, with a Virtual Open Mic, featuring students and staff from across the school community recording themselves reading their favourite poems. Take a look at the video and we hope you enjoy sharing our celebration of the written and spoken word.
As ever, the School has held a writing competition. We had a record number of entries for this year’s National Poetry Day competition, and the quality was excellent. Below are the names of the winners:
Lower School
- Samuel Price: Three Poems
- Lucas Earnshaw: Poem for the New Term
- Theo Payne: Isolation
Commendations: Nathan Shestopal: Life of an Isolating 12 Year Old, Fynn Ratcliffe: William Gin, Jack Barnes: My Winter Poem
Middle School
- Alex Heffernan: Cold Water
- Freddy Chelsom: We Sat Alone Upon a Distant Shore
- Oscar Chan: Red
Commendations: Yubo Gao: Vision, Alex Lees: Imagine Vision, Joshua Mensah: Growing Up, Boco To: The Vision of Past
Upper School
- Cameron Eilbeck: Vision
- David Haar: Two Sonnets
- Will Haynes: The Lonely Globetrotter