Black History Month Poetry Competition

As part of Black History Month celebrations, we ran a poetry competition in school. In sticking with this year’s theme of ‘Saluting our Sisters,’ we encouraged pupils to write poems that celebrated and honoured the resilience, contributions, achievements, and stories of Black women, famous or otherwise.

We had some lovely entries and the top 3 finalists were judged by visiting author, Joyce Harmer, who was very impressed by the overall standard of writing. Congratulations to winning poems by Jaha-Lezibusiso in Year 8 (third place), Musawwir in Year 8 (second place) and Uchindami in Year 12 (first place). Each of the winners received a badge, certificate and book voucher.

Uchindami’s winning poem, a reimagination of Rosa Park’s thoughts during her famous bus journey, has been submitted for the National BHM Poetry Competition.

Please click on the names below to read the winning entries:
Jaha-Lezibusiso; Musawwir; Uchindami