Winning entrant

Poem title and link

School

Age

James Potine

Life is like the sea

Oldbury on Severn CE Primary School, Glos.

7

Joseph Sibley

Will there be a third world war?

St Cuthbert’s CE Primary School, Leics.

7

Nicholas Martin

God is everywhere

Manston St James CE Primary School, Leeds

8

Dominic Halter

Beware! Goliath Comes

St Peter’s Primary School, Nottinghamshire

10

Peter Blowfield

Heaven

Stephen Freeman School, Didcot

10

Max Cobb

Faith: The Gates of Grace

Abingdon School, Oxfordshire

11

Thomas White

Apple of Eden

Lucton School, Herefordshire

11

Casper van der Sman

Spirits

Graveney School, Tooting

12

Isabelle-Rose Tulloch

The Slaves and I

Kingsbury School, Birmingham

12

Jayne Perks

I am God

Lacan Childe School, Shropshire

13

Daisy Johnson

Prayer of a dying atheist

Friends School, Saffron Walden, Essex

14

Nadia Al Refaie

I wonder why we breathe

Leventhorpe School, Hertfordshire

14

Georgie Shipp

Deep

Oaklands Catholic School, Hampshire

14

Kate Turner

Life's Drama

William Allitt School, Derbyshire

14

Becky Bennett

When the morning bird cries

Wallingford School, Oxfordshire

14

Jon Ord

Where is God?

Ashington School, Northumberland

16

Laura Tully

Disguised

Ashington School, Northumberland

17

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SPIRITED POETRY: A competition for creative RE - from the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education

Nearly 100 entries in all have been selected for publication, and appear in a book of Spirited Poetry, jointly published by NATRE and Religious and Moral Education Press. Many more were excellent in their own way as well.

Judges: Penelope Wilcock, published poet; Lesley Prior, RE lecturer and chair of the Shap working party on world religions; Lat Blaylock editor REtoday and NATRE project worker.

"The judges' task was difficult because the quality of entries was high and impressive. We looked for originality, insight and good use of language in the interpretation of the theme pupils made. We wish to thank all teachers who enabled pupils to take part as well as the pupils – judging spirited poetry has been a wonderful experience."