Year 5 in the second half of Term 3 completed one of the new English Curriculum units based on Slam Poetry.
This involved looking at the book Spotlight by Solli Raphael who has written and performed his own works at a very young age.
The students established a platform and then completed their efforts in writing and presenting. The results were outstanding and some poems were entered into a Bathurst Poetry competition.
Click on the student’s name below to read their poems.
Mrs Murray and Mrs Walsh
The No. 1 Thing That Makes Us Sore
War started, it kicked down the door. It has started again as it asks for more, and it makes us sore.
We fight to the death till our very last breath.
The same game has started again.
World Leaders, they ask for peace and for it to cease, but people still decease.
So many have died their family cried so much their dry-eyed.
The tanks, they rob the banks and they still don’t give thanks.
The bombardment starts on an apartment. It still rains till it hits the fire department, then they fly away just like they did yesterday, and soon after that there will be a d-day.
The guns go Blam! Blam! Blam! The bullets somehow hit a lamb then another goes into the dam. War is like a battering ram through a traffic jam.
So many are dead and some starving without bread
They’re filled with dread as the war spreads ahead to the corners of the world; it’s like the underworld.
When I was younger
I didn’t really think about world hunger
which is why I’m telling you today
about those kids who didn’t have a say,
Because those kids
have never really chewed good food.
lots of people are starving
which is scarring their lives.
Not just the kids in war
but also people that are poor.
lots of people need our help
but not many are listening.
If you just gave them each 1 dollar
they would think that’s a good offer
because if you use your heart
to do your part to help them
have a better start, and be kind and use your mind
and stop being blind at their needs.
We need to be grateful and stop being
debateful and hateful,
be more faithful and graceful,
peaceful and hopeful.
For all those people that are poor,
stop being hurtful and give them a meal.
They are people too so we need to give them food.
Just a few meals could change their life
but without any food there’s strife.
We need to open our eyes
and be much more wise and stop telling lies
and look at the size of food on their plate.
We all have meals each day
but for some of them their food is away.
So some of us need to stand up
and help them get their way to have a say.
20% of the world population are affected
by food shortage but when we see our storage
compared to theirs its not fair.
All of this can change if you just help each other,
not just your mother or brothers
but help everyone rather than just yourself.
We need to find a solution
for world pollution
We all being really sluggish
towards thinking about the rubbish
We’ve all seen pollution,
but no one will put in their part.
They’re also hesitant
they should be resident at the Hesitation Hotel.
Every time someone ignores this
that one piece of rubbish makes a terrible difference,
to this terrible thing called pollution
And the government don’t even take into account
the amount of waste that cannot be replaced!
And the ocean, oh the ocean
there is no commotion about the ocean
and all the animals that call at home
All that is happening is it being filled up with foam!
Think about all the life
that is being taken by the knife of pollution!
But all of this can change
because you need to take charge,
enlarge in the mountain
of people who know about
the poison that the earth is taking into its worth
And before you throw it away,
think twice about the way
that you are about to mislead
you and the whole world
away from a cleaner world.
So today you need to help build the wall
for all of the things that aren’t taken care of
and leave this world bare
of the monstrous thing called pollution.
AI
It’s a bright sunny day
On vacation, I get a call
Saying they have had an
investigation.
They find my location
Then my phone starts
To shake.
They tell me I said something
fake. I pause and say,.’’Ai can
be tricky.
I stand still, feeling a
it’s a bit sticky.
So I call the FBI, ’’can
Can you please help me?
we need to stop Ai.
Bring it to its knees’’.
On this fun vacation, I feel the frustration, stuck in a situation,
hearing accusations without explanation, soIi look for salvation
by having a conversation, asking the FBI’s station for some
clarification, thinking about how we could stop AI domination
before it causes big devastation, or maybe even slow down all
our creation, making people worry about our world’s direction.
So I end the call with hesitation, wondering if we need a new solution.
To guide us through this AI confusion
Before it leads to even more frustration. But for now, I will enjoy
my vacation and leave the rest to future generations
Trusting we will find the right foundation.
When is the end to war?
War tore the poor, hurts people deep down to the core. Wars roar in the face of the weak but we can speak out against it.
Bit by bit we are tearing our world apart, it makes me grit my teeth as soldiers fall apart. If you have a heart and you were smart, you’d help stop war.
As the jets soar high, corps cry, as they die under the night sky. But why do we fight when all we get is hundreds of goodbyes, even though we know we are better than that.
If we accept and respect that there is always a difference, but we have ignorance to accept that peace is real when kids across the world can’t even have a proper meal is surreal but true, but if only we knew just what we can do to help.
As we sit here in our state, kids don’t even have food on their plates.
Education, tolerance and understanding is the key for the next generations fate.
Children have hesitation to express their feelings about other nations. We can unite in our donations to make this world a better place for the next generation.
War, bombs and famine will be a distant revelation as we stand united in our formation.
Remembering we are responsible for our own frustrations and should always demonstrate and implore our patience.
Loneliness
This tall wall looming over, loneliness is a wall blocking our friendship we shared.
When you are lonely, you feel like the only lonely,
the one and only.
Being lonely is like falling down a funnel into a tunnel of no return.
Lonely is a lost spirit, lost in the street for none to see.
Surrounded by people, but no one sees me.
As you sit on the street, you think and stare,
Isn’t anyone there?
You knock on doors, but no one answers. You feel like there are no more chances.
But loneliness doesn’t last forever.
Out of the blue, you find a friendship new.
Loneliness is forgotten, you no longer feel rotten.
Suddenly you smile, it’s been a while. Your cloudy day as gone away.
As life gets brighter, I feel lighter.
That wall of loneliness no longer looms.
Friendship is alive, it blooms.
You are no longer the only lonely.
Now your goal is to break peoples’ lonely wall.
For The Fallen
A blazing sunny day which it was just before,
Has now turned to hatred, gunshots and war.
These poor children, fighting for life, running low on medicine, the country torn with strife.
These incomprehensible acts of nation and nation, it hasn’t brought peace, only death and segregation.
These troops are all covered in camouflage, they are stalking their prey, through espionage.
This dreadful tool and harmful schedule isn’t cool so we need to be watchful of this hurtful
and shameful yet powerful jewel,
Which has made us cruel not mindful,
And we should all feel pitiful and sinful,
Because we have turned this wonderful world of peace into a tool for shameful,
Fateful, mournful things that only create hate,
And when you create hate you only leave room to discriminate,
But there are people out there who just want food on their plate,
So stand up to stop this terrible trait.
The tank tracks are rattling, the gunshots ear shattering, the footsteps are clattering, the soldiers faint chattering.
If we stand in solidarity,
Humanity’ popularity of insanity could become a parody,
And the clarity of an unfamiliarity could just become a type of modality,
That of a singularity and rationality could become an abnormality.
These wars could all end,
Even a small change could do,
This pain could all die,
Because of someone like you.
Peace
War it’s not the way to even the score
We just need to open the door
To a conversation with the nation
About the legislation
We need some communication
To stop the eradication
There are soldiers at war
Need to be tough
But we still seem to forget
War is pretty rough
These people have feelings
but they’re getting beatings
And yet they’re still breathing
Children crying over so many dying
mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers
We need a resolution for the persecution
Being invasive will not be an alternative
The millions of civilians have a right to live
It isn’t their intention to be caught in the crossfire
It’s a choice that’s been taken out of their hands
By the rulers of the land
There are people out there
Who live in despair
Fearing for their lives
But wanting to survive
Bombs may look like pom poms
But they are destructive demons
Why choose war for the cure
The world leaders need to be sure
Of the choices they make
because in the wake
The death and destruction cannot be undone
They should be aware
That this isn’t fair
On the innocent people
At the end of the day
We were all made equal
At the end of the day
We will all cheer hooray
That there isn’t a war to get in the way.
When I think of pollution
I think of the contribution that the construction
of the gigantic cool towers
and the expansion of air pollution
have in our region.
Everyone has seen pollution,
yet there is so much hesitation
and no dedication, nothing is being done.
We need some motivation to save the Earth
Before it turns into devastation
we need to give this topic recognition
before the greatest attraction in human history turns to destruction
We need to find a solution before the position and condition of pollution gets worse.
Don’t make the assumption the earth is fine,
especially when the mines
are making more pollution than the earth was designed.
People need to stop drinking wine before we are out of time.
The oceans are suffering the most though
with lots of rubbish craters floating across the ocean,
they are coating habitats.
So we need to stop boasting about our clothing
because it is only a matter of time
before they’re floating across the ocean.
We need to pick up rubbish
because we’re being sluggish
And if we don’t we will be punished
By the rubbish furnishing anything stylish
Until it starts to perish
But we don’t want things to perish,
we want flowers to flourish,
bees to buzz and all those sluggish people to realise
that littering is childish.
We need to start considering limiting plastic intake
so we can start reversing and defeating the effects of pollution
We need to stop this rubbish, let the flowers flourish,
bees buzz and find a better, cleaner Earth for all of us.
Gone
Extinction what can we do how are they meant to survive
and thrive but now they just die and have no way to thrive.
We need to dive in and think of what can do I mean we’re
surviving and thriving and just dying.
Like the Amur leopard, some rhinos and even orangutans it’s like
termination they can’t even have relaxation
and now there just fossilised like dinos 365 million years ago
come on bro we need to help so don’t weep and sweep this goes deep into
a big heap so let’s not sleep on this let’s make a stand and help these animals.
Reducing pollution taking care of their environment
come on people we have a right to fight so instead of turning
on a useless light let’s fight for these animals and what’s infecting and selecting on them to die.
So instead of building infrastructure we don’t need or a skyscraper too high to see.
Let’s donate and help these poor poor animals or mammals
Let’s help before they’re gone.
Imagine never seeing some of your favourite animals or mammals how can you deal or heal or have meals when these animals are dying they can’t survive and thrive.
Some nap and slap others die by mines and fly high
It’s too early for them to die they need to thrive otherwise they will be gone by 2025.
