Awesome Odes & Loopy Limericks

Our final meteorology poetry morning at Salway Ash Primary School saw Years 5 & 6 tackle two forms. We started with Odes, and Keats’ famous Ode to Autumn was the perfect example to explain this form of poetry in praise of something.

After spending time outside to observe and listen to nature, the 10 and 11 year-olds chose to create an ‘Ode to Our School Field’ as their collaborative piece before then writing their own odes, which celebrated all manner of things from winter to summer, spring rain to cricket.

We finished off with a look at limericks, which captured the children’s natural aptitude for humour and craziness...the perfect combination for these five-line rhyming tales.

The whole-school collection will be published in a special edition anthology in the coming weeks. With List poems, If I Were…, Haiku, Personification Poetry, Odes, and Limericks, it’s going to be a bumper book of verse by young writers aged 4-11.