After carefully reviewing a fantastic range of thoughtful and imaginative entries, Miss Hatton-Belliard and Mrs Conway selected this year's winners, recognising students whose poems stood out for their originality, expression and creative use of language.

As a reward for their outstanding work, the winning poets enjoyed a special visit to the Poetry Expo on Friday 3 July, where they had the opportunity to celebrate poetry alongside other young writers and gain further inspiration for their own creative work.

Year 7 Winners

Congratulations to:

• Vivan M
• Rosalia V
• Ilya N
• Yuelin C
• Theodore J

Year 8 Winners

Congratulations to:

• Reanna C
• Shripriya B
• Martha C
• Alexandra V-M
• Campbell W

Highly Commended

A special mention also goes to our Highly Commended students, whose entries were of an exceptionally high standard:

Year 7

• Sophia M
• Anuradha A

Year 8

• Diana-Maria S
• Hana T

Congratulations to all of our winners and highly commended students. The quality of this year's entries was outstanding, and we are incredibly proud of everyone who took part. Their creativity, imagination and passion for poetry made this year's competition a tremendous success.

We hope the Poetry Expo proved to be an inspiring experience and look forward to seeing even more wonderful writing from our talented students in the future.