June2011Issue - Westminster Academy

Westminster Academy Newsletter Page 8
Students work with professional poet and
song writer in Word of Mouth workshops
Westminster Academy has been very lucky to be able
to work with Paddington Arts on the Word of Mouth
project both this term and last. In Term 4 Ms Catherine
Fox’s Year 8 Topic Class learned debating skills
and this term Mr Russell Harris’s Year 8 Topic class
was able to work with a professional poet.
The students worked with Aina Westlye, a song writer
and poet from the Defcon Workshop, to create poems:
Gum
Gum; so tasty and sweet,
A thing you can chew, but can’t eat.
Not allowed in school,
But when teachers chew, the kids drool.
It makes your breath brand new.
These are the many reasons I like to chew.
-Taulant Sylejmani
Love
Love is like a shadow
It follows you
Never leaves you alone
But in the darkest places
You cannot see it
You cannot find it
And even if you search for it
It won’t be found
But you can wait for it to come back
Just like the girl you’re waiting for
-Haitam Ajban
Aina Westlye of Defcon Workshop working with students
from Mr Russell Harris’s Year 8 Topic class
There once was a rude little boy
There once was a rude little boy,
He loved going around saying “oi!”,
He was locked in a cell,
It was just like hell,
‘Cause he played with a gun like a toy.
-Samir Hamady
Homework
Why does it exist?
So evil, always hiding in the mist
And when it strikes, its wrath unleashed
The only saviour is the pen of good deed
-Hamza Elamrani
There’s not much of me left to take
There’s not much of me left to take
You’ve taken it all away
But I still feel the pain
Of you stepping into this game
Either you go away
Or I will
Cause you pain
Because you will always be the same
-Adam Asad
Life is a blessing
Life is a blessing
Do not take it for granted
Death is closing in
God looks down on you
His eyes piercing through your skin
No one can help you
You cannot escape
By then it will be too late
-Mhd Afsan Uddin