Voices of Hope SADDLEWORTH LITERARY COMPETITION A COLLECTION OF POEMS, ARTWORK AND VIDEOS FROM THE DOVESTONE LEARNING PARTNERSHIP In Partnership with The Oldham Education Partnership and the Dovestone Learning Partnership Participating Schools: Saddleworth School Royton & Crompton School Despite the unforeseen circumstances we have found Broadfield Burnley Brow ourselves in this year, we have once again been Christchurch lucky enough to work with our Primary schools from Delph the Dovestone Learning Partnership, as well as a Diggle number of other schools across Oldham to produce a Friezland collection of work based upon the theme of ‘hope’. Greenacres Holy Rosary The magazine has been made possible by support from The Oldham Education Holy Trinity Dobcross Partnership and the Dovestone Learning Partnership (DLP). The OEP provided the Kingfisher funding which has enabled the talented young people from the partnership to come up Knowsley with some exceptional creative pieces. Medlock Valley Saddleworth School, along with the nine DLP schools; Delph, Denshaw, Diggle, Knowsley, Friezland, Saddleworth, St Agnes, St Mary’s and St Thomas, adapted our St Anne’s Lydgate plans for a poetry competition amidst the lockdown to provide focus for those learning St. Joseph’s RC from home and to celebrate and acknowledge some of the fantastic work created by St. Matthew’s pupils in and around Oldham. All pieces submitted were judged by a team of experts from Saddleworth School, with each of the ‘Dovestone Prize Winners’ receiving a trophy St. Paul’s and Amazon voucher in recognition of their achievement. St. Thomas It is more important than ever for us to share our feelings about the world in which we live and we were overwhelmed by the number of entries this year and pleased to welcome a number of new schools and pupils to the competition. Mrs C Briggs Deputy Headteacher Saddleworth School Evie Clarke Eleanor Server Age 14 Age 12 Saddleworth School Alanna Moore Age 12 Dovestone LITERARY GOLD PRIZE WINNER Anna Rosebury Age 13 Alex West Age 12 I wrote a poem inspired by my English work during lockdown. We did The Clapping by Imtiaz Dharker and watched a film on BBC Bitesize about metaphors and that’s why I wrote ‘I am Victory Royale’. Lockdown is a bit boring but it’s not all bad. The Lockdown by Alex West Annabelle Ashworth It’s like some sort of strange scientific study. Age 13 Stay at home! Stay alert! Stay sane? Every day the same: Morning moaning when it’s time to learn Select, submit, press, post Demi Cummings Sam Reddish Age 12 Teams, Bitesize, Hegarty Maths, Age 15 YouTube, Pearson and Kahoot! Snacking, squabbling, shooting hoops Lockdown Life Killing time til it’s afternoon As I sit here in my home, With my family keeping me from being alone. When the battle bus rides high People suffer and become ill, I’m Meowsicles, Brutus, Agent Peely But others wonder if they can pay the house bill. I. Am. Victory Royale. Or even worrying if they must make a will. Time flies. One more game. The NHS work day and night, Every day the same. as the country needs to fight. Old people terrified they might die, But sometimes… While others focus on saying goodbye. We walk, we ride, we play. We find things we’d forgotten we’d hidden Olivia Hindle away. Age 12 We love, we laugh, we remember and read. We race ahead or fall behind. Edward Rankin We don’t mind. Year 13 Terms pass, storms come, the world turns. Everybody learns. Hope in Covid-19 12/06/20 As Lockdown has been on loads of people have been doing great things. For example Captain Tom Moore (Ex WW2 soldier) walked 100 laps around Since the Coronavirus pandemic started most plains, trains and ferry’s etc. have his garden to raise money for the stopped running so in the last couple of months the pollution has gone down by NHS, his aim was to raise £1000 but 54% and more of the worlds wildlife have started to come out like birds and he managed to raise a wopping squirrels etc. this is because the air is more cleaner. £39million pounds and for his Birthday he also received over People have started to do more sport recently and as this terrible pandemic is 150,000 birthday cards from all over nearly over most people have started to go back to work and they are riding or the world. Marcus Rashford also running to work because they also realise that it is more healthy for them and it raised £20million pounds to put is also cleaner for our oxygen and that can be better for our lungs as well. towards the Co-operative food bank, and also a former Royal Marine soldier has run 100km inside his flat in Colchester - by completing around 15,000 laps of his six metre flat. Sean Wilson ran almost continuously for 19 hours on Saturday, 11 April, to raise money for Age UK. Elizabeth Duckworth RUNNER Joe George RUNNER Megan Rainton Age 14 UP Age 14 UP Age 12 Dovestone LITERARY BRONZE PRIZE The title I chose is Hope because we all need Landscape of Binn Green WINNER hope in one point of our life and we all need the The picture is about the beauty of the area we live in, the courage to go and talk to someone when we need the help. moors that surround us and the peace and tranquility they The best part of my work is that it gives people courage to can create as well as the way they inspire hope and wellbeing ask people for help. Another part of my best work is that it within us. This is achieved as, despite the situation we all is repetitive throughout and giving the message across. My find ourselves in, their beauty will remain; stay steadfast main ideas are for people to have hope and to not worry and unwavering to whatever hardships that occur. They will Edie Broadbent about life that is heading towards them. The rainbows are always be there for us as a reminder that no matter what Age 12 a sign that no matter where you go you will always have we are experiencing it will not last forever and life will go on happiness in your life. If you have had a hard time, then the regardless. My painting also reflects the situation of lockdown I decided to write my poem about this area of what’s happiness for you would be to talk to someone about your as many of us have had more of an opportunity to appreciate been going on because I have seen and heard about problems and to not fear what will happen when you grow the dramatic landscapes and beautiful countryside around us. a significant change. That animals are returning to the older. You will always make new friends no matter where your My inspiration came from David Hockney, and therefore the surface after hiding from boats and with less factories path takes you in life. painting is slightly colour enhanced in comparison to the real running, less pollution is getting into the atmosphere, life scene as to pay homage to his style. slowing down global warming almost to a stop. With this Hope going on, people have started to realise what affect we What is hope? have on Earth and when we go back we will be able to Is hope real or imaginary? change. Though the world may need some ramping up Will we ever know? to get back to fighting form, Earth has had the break it Hope for health, needed, hopefully it will stay like this. Hope for kindness, Luke Stainthorpe Hope for a content life. Age 12 Coping with Covid Hope for family, It’s funny how at 2 meters apart we’re closer, Hope for people, Times of Change connected by one bad thing the whole nation in closure, Hope for strangers, Distant rumblings in a far-off land of something sinister Seeing that neighbour every Thursday Hope for people, we don’t yet understand. you’ve never seen before, That you have never met, As the months roll on, rumblings get louder, Clapping, cheering banging pots, it grows from Hope for a joyful life. disaster is creeping closer, what’s going on? a purr to a united roar. The news now filled with daily dread; This is what Covid has done. Hope that you will live right, many people are now dead. Hope that you will not be forgotten, Hand sanitiser, toilet paper, face masks, Hope for your community, People dying, governments lying. Helpful people, careless all in such high demand, Hope for your neighbours, people, the world is full of all kinds of flaws. Going out and seeing your mates has been Hope for everyone that you see. The best and worst of people are brought out during this pretty much banned. pandemic. Keyworkers exhausted, the furloughed lounging. Being a social isolate is brand new to us, Hope for school, We have all divided, we need to work together so that we No getting up at 7 to catch the school bus. Hope for teachers, can help those who are starving in terror. Now is the time, This is what Covid has done. Hope for key workers, more than ever in which we must stand together. In this time, Katie Finneran The skies are cloudless most of the time, Hope for the virus to go away, Age 14 The world has gone mad, it’s gone insane, I’m sure many The carbon emissions have ceased to climb.