Rachel Rooney Performance

Children and their teachers enjoyed a magical morning demystifying poetry at the Exeter Northcott with award winning poet Rachel Rooney. The audience heard how Rachel became a poet and she shared the first poem she ever wrote as a child - a response to old ladies who get cross with children on the bus! This was truly inspiring as children could see her crossings out, her re-working of the draft, and ultimately realise that they can do this too, they can write poetry. The form and structure of a poem was explored with much hilarity in Rachel’s poem Goldfish. Thank you to the demonstrative teacher who came up on to the stage and pretended to be the goldfish - you were fantastic! Rachel then read her poem about the class hamster in a very lifelike hamster mask! To finish the performance Rachel asked all the TA’s in the audience to stand up. She then performed her moving and wonderful poem in praise of TA’s and there was much enraptured applause.