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Prizes for Poetry and Art by our pupils in the Winchester Night Shelter Competition
It was wonderful that four of our pupils were invited to the Winchester Discovery Centre last Sunday, as part of the Night Shelter’s activities to mark National Homelessness Sunday. This was following an art and poetry competition which the Night Shelter had organised. Mrs Holt wrote to us saying:
‘It was inspiring to see an excellent array of poems and posters by the children of Sherborne House, many other schools, and by adults too, displayed along the corridors of the Winchester Discovery Centre. Speeches about the work being done to alleviate the plight of the homeless in Winchester were made by the director of Winchester Churches Night Shelter and the Mayor of Winchester. Then the finalists in the poetry competition (which attracted 130 entries) were invited onto the stage by Debbie Thrower, the Radio 2 and Meridian broadcaster, to read out their poems in front of the large assembled audience, which included both the Mayor and the Hampshire Poet of the Year. Jessica Holt was thrilled to be awarded 4th place in the 8-11 years category. Next the finalists of the poster competition were invited onto the stage, and those who could make it were presented with their prizes: Jack Jerram (4th), Lauren Atkinson (2nd) and Eleanor Fox (1st) in the children’s class.’
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