English: Blitz Poetry (18.10.24)

In our English learning this week, we have been looking at the effect personification can have in poetry. After watching a virtual reality video in an underground station during an air raid, we thought about which senses would have been most impacted and jotted down some ideas – using personification to build the atmosphere. In our following lesson, we carefully selected ideas and thought about how to structure these to tell the story of a typical night in a city during the Blitz.

All our poems are included in a brilliantly powerful book – please do come and have a look in our classroom!

Below are a few examples: