Poetry Competitions for Schools

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Primary School Winners

Mini Sagas - The Adventrue Starts Here

Congratulations to our winning schools that have been chosen for the top three prizes! We would like to thank all of the children that have taken part in this competition and also all of the teachers that have helped organised their schools entries.

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Postcard Poets invited children from across the globe to send us poems all about their summer holidays using our 'Postcard Poems'. Every entry received a Postcard Poet bookmark and children chosen for publication received a certificate and the chance of winning a family fun day!

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My First Riddle invited Key Stage 1 pupils to send in their best riddles to be in with a chance of winning the top cash prize for their school as well as a book token! A huge congratulations to all that took part, keep up the good work!

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Poetry ExplorersPoetry Explorers was a hugely popular worldwide competition. Congratulations to the winners and all those who took part in this poetry series!
A big thank you to everyone who entered. If you would like to get hold of our Poetry Explorers poetry collection, the books can be ordered from our online bookshop

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Poetry Express invited children from across the globe to send their poems for consideration to be published in a special anthology. Schools also had the chance to win £1,000 resources! We received an amazing amount of entries for consideration with some outstanding poetry submitted.

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Mini Sagas - The Adventrue Starts HereMe & My Family 2009 competition was created to help younger children show their creativity in writing. It has shown to be a huge success. A big thank you to all pupils who participated and staff who organised the entries.

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Mini Sagas - The Adventrue Starts HereThe Adventure Starts Here 2009 Mini Saga Creative Writing Competition was a huge success and we’d like to thank all the pupils who participated as well as all the staff who organised the entries.

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My First AcrosticOver 2,000 schools took part nationwide and we received almost 60,000 acrostics. We have enjoyed reading every acrostic and it was a difficult but rewarding task to select the overall winning school.

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Little Laureates 2008Congratulations to the best poet in each of the Little Laureates 2008 poetry books, who've each won a Staedtler creative writing set. Thank you to all the schools and pupils who participated in the competition. We have enjoyed reading every poem and look forward to reading more of your work in the future.

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A Pocketful of RhymeCongratulations to Court House Junior School in Maidenhead who won 1st prize of £1,000 in our national poetry competition, A Pocketful of Rhyme. Their pupils’ poems were published in ‘A Pocketful of Rhyme Berkshire & Surrey’.

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Tiny TalesCongratulations to St Christopher’s School in London. We are delighted to announce the school and pupils winners. Selecting the best overall school from the series as well as the best writers in each book was a very difficult but enjoyable task. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to everyone who participated!

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