Date: 09 Oct 2008 09:27
Chiltern Railways and the Royal Shakespeare Company are delighted to announce on National Poetry Day the winner of their Young Bard competition 2008.
Chiltern, who run direct services to Stratford upon Avon from London, worked with the RSC to promote literacy and creativity amongst their young passengers. The competition invited children between 7 and 12 to write a poem about holiday and travel. The competition was judged by Lyn Darnley, Head of Text, Voice and Artist Development at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The winning poem titled “Holiday, Holiday” was by Morgan Jones aged 8 from Great Missenden C of E Combined School, Bucks:
Holiday, Holiday
Morgan Jones
Holiday, holiday,
We go we go on a train,
Holiday, holiday. ,
It’s lucky it didn’t rain.
Holiday, holiday
It’s so, so fun
Holiday, holiday
Buy me a bun.
Holiday, holiday
We go to the zoo
Holiday, holiday
The cows go moo
Holiday, holiday
We collect some conkers
Holiday, holiday
My brother goes bonkers
Holiday, holiday
We go to the park,
Holiday, holiday,
We hear a dog bark.
Holiday, holiday,
It’s time to end,
Holiday, holiday,
Go back to my friends.
Morgan will now be invited on a tour of the RSC and will be presented with a Complete Works of Shakespeare signed by Lyn Darnley. The runners up of the competition were by Ella Purvis, aged 7 and by Henry Lapworth, aged 9:
A poem
Ella Purvis
Trains hooting their horns and cars honking a round thing!
Planes roaring to florida and where ever.
Beaches with their golden sand and roaring sea.
Holiday cottages with a coloured door .
Travelling by train is the best if you ask me,
Getting a ticket or using a family railcard.
I use Chiltern Railways a lot !
Trains chugging along the track
Blowing their horns merrily.
Holiday Poem
Henry Lapworth
When I wake up on the morning of my holiday
I`m so excited to be going far away
To see the sea, the beach and sun
I know we`re going to have such fun
Playing football in the sand
Getting brown all nice and tanned
Diving through the waves and foam
Never wanting to go home!
These winning entries will all feature in the next Chiltern Railways passenger newsletter. Chiltern Railways and the RSC would like to thank everyone who entered the competition.
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For more information, please contact the Chiltern Railways Press Office on 020 7333 3014, 07771 668793 or mailto: emma.gascoigne@chilternrailways.co.uk.
Notes to Editors:
About the judge:
Lyn Darnley is Head of Text, Voice and Artist Development. She has worked at the RSC since 1992 and prior to joining the Company worked in the Drama School sector. Her work includes work with the actors on voice, text and language and she works closely with the Education Department working with teachers and students. She has a passion for poetry and its role in education and the RSC holds an annual poetry writing event for local schoolchildren at which actors perform their work. With Stephanie Martin she has co-authored The Voice Source Book and The Teaching Voice. Her work with the Company has taken her to the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Poland, South Africa and Singapore.
About Chiltern Railways:
We are owned by Deutsche Bahn AG and is part of DB Regio, Deutsche Bahn’s local and regional service provider. We are the current National Rail Awards Passenger Operator of the Year. We run direct trains to Stratford upon Avon from London Marylebone seven times a day weekdays, six on Saturdays and five on Sundays. We have great value fares to get you to Stratford including the Shakespeare Explorer Ticket. This is a flexible, great value ticket that allows you to get out and about on our network, especially in Shakespeare Country. We have a leaflet about Stratford upon Avon that you can pick up at all staffed stations; this gives you money off a number of attractions when you go by train. To find out more information about Chiltern Railways can be found at www.chilternrailways.co.uk.
About the Royal Shakespeare Company:
One of the world's best-known theatre ensembles, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) performs throughout the year at its home in Stratford-upon-Avon. The company focuses on works by Shakespeare, other renaissance dramatists and contemporary writers. The RSC is currently in the middle of a major project to transform its main playhouse, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the surrounding site to create the finest modern playhouse for Shakespeare in the world. Work on the project is due to be complete in 2010. During the building works, the RSC will continue to perform in the town in the award-winning 1000 seat Courtyard Theatre.
