Thursday 1st October marks this year’s National Poetry Day and the 2020 theme is ‘vision’.

Pupils were invited to write haikus about vision for an Emanuel competition. The best haikus were shown on screens around the school, with prizes for the best in each year group. Take a look at the winners’ entries below.

We would also like to invite parents and families to join in and write their own haikus on this year’s theme. Entries can be sent to Mr Healy at sean.healy@emanuel.org.uk.

Winning haikus

See the crystal ball,

Robots vs humans at war!

How long do we have?

Sophie McLachlan 6CB


Hawk’s acute optics,

Pinpoints prey efficiently.

Clarity sublime.

Mia Saltissi 6CB


Eyes blink the future

Forests destroyed climate change

The world is broken

Leela Davies 7MM


Deep in the darkness,

I catch a glimpse of the sky.

A new beginning.

Violet D-A 7MM


Crawling through tunnels,

Blindly furrowing through dirt,

Waddling a long way.

Zac Victory 8AFH


King of the far sky

soars through the feisty, strong wind,

Watching from miles away.

Isabella Gribbon 8AFH


We had a vision.

Locked down and nowhere to go.

Covid changed it all.

Emma Brydon 9PAK


Gazing out the gap.

Tell me, what can you see now?

Life; taking its breath.

Hannah Paterson 9MJR