Eight primary schools take part in Bannview House poetry event

Local Primary School pupils who took part in Bannview Care Homes First Poetry Competition, the topic being "When I Grow Old", are pictured with their Teachers and Parents © Edward Byrne Photography INBL1516-209EB

Eight local Primary Schools took part in Bannview Care Homes first poetry competition.

There were over 100 entries from pupils of the local schools.

That made it a very difficult task to select finalists from all the entries.

The residents and their relatives and friends in Bannview took time to read all the entries that were displayed in the home and to shortlist 20 entries.

The children showed great enthusiasm and had a variety of opinions on this year’s topic “When I Grow Old.”

In amongst the grey hair and wrinkles that were present in many of the poems there were Grannies bungee jumping off the Eifel Tower, millionaires being very good to their grandchildren, and a tendency to grow old disgracefully.

Roberta Wilson Bannview Care Homes new manager was very encouraged in the participation of the local schools and the poetry competition will now become an annual event for the schools with a different topic being set every Year.