A thriving, thrilling, tranquillity
The selected few students of Alperton Community School were
present in the school library at the Ealing Road Site for the two days:
Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of April 2016, missing
their lessons for two days only (much to their delight). The students were
picked due to their high level of attainment in English, and so are ahead of
their class, meaning that the two days of their lessons that they have missed
will be caught up on. This was cleverly designed by the staff of Alperton
Community School, who always have the students best interests at heart.
The poems or Slams as they are called (due to the workshop
being Slambassadors) are an organisation which helps the youth of England speak
out, socialising, boosting their confidence and self-esteem, whilst also
learning and expanding their vocabulary. This workshop is not accessed by
everyone, so the students felt very privileged to be chosen and to participate
in the exhilarating event:
“It’s fun, interesting and very beneficial; I get to
explore my creativity to its fullest potential and free my mind from the stress
of the upcoming exams. It can be seen as a holiday to a hard worker.” Detroit- Year 9 student of Alperton Community School.
This event was much anticipated. Whilst looking over and spectating the progress and the overall happenings of
the workshop, I have seen that henceforth my arrival, and even before that, the
class was especially quiet, working very hard and dedicating their time so that
their poem could be saturated with as much time and effort they could put
into it.
There have been many poems created by these pupils that are
worthy of being published, of a different caliber and are in a league of their
own. These pupils have shown their maturity to everyone, which is extremely
evident by their masterpieces.
“Slambassadors has been great, it forces you to
use lateral thinking, something which most people find difficult, and really
gets you thinking. My poem was inspired by Eminem. I think that Slambassadors
would be something great to put on a personal statement, and my advice to
someone who wants to do Slambassadors in the future is: write about something
you feel passionate about, and don’t worry if you or other people think that
you don’t have the makes of a poet, or that you aren’t good enough to leap over
this obstacle, because if you put your mind to something you can do it. That is
one of the many things hat I have learnt from this workshop.”
In conclusion, this workshop has been a great triumph for
both Alperton Community School and the participating students, and we are
thankful to both Slambassadors and Joelle Taylor, a professional poet, famous
due to her great Slams and her great use of language and poetry. She helped our
young poets and shared some of her great intellect and her experience in both
performing and writing poetry. The poets will perform in July, where a winner
will be chosen.
Good luck Alperton Community School!
