Year 6 pupil, Emma Johnson, was the double winner of a Somerset writing competition at the weekend!!

Emma won the U11 Poetry and the U11 Prose sections of the Burnham Literary Festival. Her winning poem, Flightless, and her short story, Mooney, have been published in the 2024 Anthology and can be read below.

Congratulations, Emma!

Flightless by Emma Rose Johnson
Love is a bird,
Lonely on air,
Too shy for anyone to see its beauty,

It floats on delicate wings,
Not knowing of its journey,
Driven on as it sings,
It has to go on though thirsty.

Sometimes it falls,
Loud are its cries,
The wind is as sharp as needles.

The river of peace will nurse it,
It will immerse it in soft water embers,
And then on it shall go to deliver its message,
May our little bird not feel the slaughter of mankind.

Love is a bird ever wandering.