POETRY PLANE COMPETITION
✈️ Words Taking Flight
This year, students at Lilydale High were invited to participate in an international project called The Poetry Plane. Students were invited to write a poem that commemorated the sacrifice, bravery and memory of soldiers during World War I 🕊️.
All student entries were sent to Lilydale’s sister school, Lycée Fernand Darchicourt in Hénin-Beaumont, France. The French students copied the poems onto seed paper impregnated with the memorial flowers of Britain, France and Germany - poppies, cornflowers and forget-me-nots 🌺
The three best poems were sent to the Aviation Heritage Trust ✈️, where they will be placed into a Tiger Moth aeroplane and dropped across the WWI battlefields of Britain, France and Germany. The flowers will then bloom where the seed paper falls, in remembrance of the soldiers who died.
Lycée Fernand Darchicourt
Lycée Fernand Darchicourt
We had a number of entries across Years 7 to 11, and the decision on the final winners was very difficult. A huge congratulations to the following Year 9 students whose poems will make their way to the sky on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of July ✈️:
- Nathan Hopkins
- Amelia Richards
- Leah Giffen
An additional congratulations to all students who also submitted an entry to the competition. Your poems have been planted on the grounds of our French sister school and even in the gardens of some of the French students:
- Jacob Attrill
- Hannah Cashman
- Sigourney Crocker
- Hermione Crocker
- Jasmine Jensen
- Charlie Coulson
- Emma Hade
- Ruby Gates
We hope to participate in the Poetry Plane again in 2027 ✈️. If you are interested, be on the lookout for when entries open.
Many thanks and have a wonderful winter break.
Catherine Zavrou