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Year 6 winner: The Environment by Laura Hyde-White


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Year 7 winner: The Environment by Rachel Cunliffe


A beautiful beach with glisten­


ing shores, A freezing land with frozen


floors. Bejewelled flowers that turn up


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their heads. Multicoloured fish that swim along the beds. A sweet-scented substance that webreathein, v The rushing rivers heard above the din. The tropical rainforests, with parrots so loud. This is the world of which I am proud. The littered beaches with no


sand left. The melting ice caps, what a theft. The flowers once proud, now


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The sun’s shining through the clouds like Pi 5-1


flakes of gold. Other days the snow drifts before leaving behind sugar-doing frost from the cold. The rabbit leaps a foot or two, patrolling


the hills paw by paw. Marking the ground with each tiny claw. Flowers falter in the autumn wind.


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turning grey. The poor little fish with oil in


their way. The polluted air which makes us all cough. The blue rivers, covered in yel­


Tomorrow it’ll be in the compost bins. Soon the sky will be too grey To even seek the horse’s hay. When the car makes an intense roar. The earth shakes—even the deer and the boar. Make this world a belter place - Make it a sphere full of grace!


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low froth. The trees once proud fall one by one. Soon, our environment will be gone. ‘tis the truth that we now see. This is how our world will be.


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Unless someone lends a hand.


lady wrapping you up in a cosy blanket. The sun is a grumpy old man lighting a roaring fire in the sky. The sun is a young teenager


And brings hope to our fright­ ened land.


Young writers


excel in Rotary competition


by Duncan Smith TALENTED wordsmiths from


. the Ribble Valley have excelled in this year’s Rotary Club of Clitheroe “Young Writer of the Year Competition”. In previous years the competi­


tion has been solely for pupils in Year 7 - the first year at high school - but this year i t was opened up to Year 6 too, involv­ ing Ribble Valley primary schools for the first time. The response was excellent


and the Rotarian organisers are grateful all the teachers who encouraged their pupils to enter.


a poem on the theme of “The Environment”.


or short, it could be a rap or a haiku; the form was left entirely up to the poet.


Some poems reflected the neg­


ative facts of global warming or the need to recycle, while others expounded on the glories of the world in which we live. Judges looked for imagery,


syntax, vocabulary, rhythmic sense, but most of all the ability of the poem to transcend the


The t e k this year was to write It could rhyme or not, be long


sum of its parts and “achieve lift-off”.


The Year 6 winners were: 1,


Laura Hyde-White, Brennands Endowed School, Slaidburn; 2, Abigail Boothman, Brookside Primary School, Clitheroe; 3, Anthony Barrett, St Michael and St John’s RC Primary School, Clitheroe. In the Year 7 competitionj all


the winners this year were from Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, although entries were also received from pupils at Rib-


blesdale High, Bowland High, St Augustine’s, Moorland School and Oakhill College. The Year 7 winners were: 1,


Rachel Cunliffe; 2, Megan Nay­ lor; 3, Eloise Halliday.


The outright winners of each


category, Laura and Rachel, will be able to hone their writing skills with the editorial staff at


The Clitheroe Advertiser and Times. They will spend a day shadow­ ing Senior Journalist Faiza Afza-


al during their Easter school hol­ idays. The six local winning.entries


also went forward to the Rotary D is tr ic t 1190 Young Writer Competition, up against entries


from other schools across the region and judged by a panel of published authors and poets. The Clitheroe Rotarians were


delighted to learn that Abigail Boothman (placed second in the local competition) won the Year 6 d is tr ic t competition while Eloise Halliday (placed third locally) came second in the dis­ trict Year 7 category. B ecause poems come alive


when they are heard out loud, Abigail was able to read her poem on BBC Radio Lan­ cashire’s Ted Robbins’ pro­ gramme, together with the dis­ trict Year 7 winner, Alexander Corns (11), from Mellor Brook. Alex is a pupil at Queen Eliza­


beth Grammar School, Black­ burn, and entered a different local leg of the competition, run by the Rotary Club of Black-


: bum West. Fellow QEGS pupils James


Parkinson, from Balderstone, and Cara Murray, from Brock- hall Village, were also winners in the local competition and all three are pictured on page 23 receiving their prizes from Mr Roger Parker, president of the Rotary Club of Blackburn West.


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I travel through the concrete jungle. Past the prowling tiger stalking every car. His eyes peeled for any out of time tickets. The traffic lights go red. Stopping a great herd of antelope. On green the antelopes charge.


While the cheetah lakes down the antelopes he can. Phew! At long last I made it through the concrete


jungle! But uh oh! I face one more challenge.


■ How am I going to tell my boss Pm late for work?


Every day a new being is born. New born light creates our dawn. Fresh summer birds call their tunes. And caterpillars emerge from cocoons. Badgers, hedgehogs and field mice too. Dragonflies of bril­ liant hue. Our world is plentiful and fulfils our need. But our world is dying because of 'greed! The sun starts to fade, the dark takes over, A little girl finds a


four leaf clover. She wishes hard because she fears.


Our vibrant world will disappear. She searches her mind and thinks out loud. The world is dying so why am I praying? I need to go out and get people saying.... Save the world come on-follow me! We’ll correct the mis­


takes of our ancestry! The flowers will bloom, the sun mil shine! We’ll restore our world; we’ll make everything fine! There will be light when the darkness is over. And all because of my four leaf clover!


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flashing her bright orange diamond rings. The sun is a kind old man beckoning you to rush outside. The rain is a young lady


sprinkling the fields with her watering can. The rain is a grumpy old man overflowing all the rivers and streams. The rain is lots of lit­ tle ballerinas coming to explore every place you can imagine. The rain is a little old lady varnishing all the roads. The rain is a little boy


spraying you with his water pistol


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How can I help? Pm so very small. Between me and the problem, there’s a great dark wall. I want my cosy home, but they won’t listen to me. And why should they? Pm only the bee? How can I help? They don’t hear a.word I say, I live in great shadow, what price have I to pay? I want my vast blue home, that’s my only wish. But they won’t listen to me. Pm only the fish. How can I help?


They’re p etr ified of me.


Pm the childhood idol, that’s all I want to be! Pm in little children’s beds and close to many hearts. Pm the bear, but of the world Pm a very small part. How can I help? I really want to, I ’ve tried to recycle, what else can I do? I ’ve tr ied so many ways, but they think I ’m meek and mild. Why should we stop


polluting, stop killing animals, stop building factories? You’re only a child.


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Year 6 runner-up: The Weather i s ...


by Abigail Boothman


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Year 7 runner-up: The Environment


by Megan Naylor


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ROGER Parker, President of the Rotary Club of Blackburn West, with QEGS pupils


James Parkinson (left), from Balderstone, Alexander Corns (front), from Mellor Brook - and Cara Murray (right), from Brockhall Village.


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