We are absolutely delighted for Harriet for winning the Key Stage 4/5 Girls' School's Association Poetry competition! 

You can read her winning entry below:

This Year Has Changed Me: A Reversible Poem - Harriet Palfreyman 

This year has changed me 

For worse, 

Not 

For better; 

I’m a different person. 

‘This has broken me’ I

 refuse to hear you say: 

‘This is something that will help me tomorrow’ 

Covid-19: 

Our past 

Our present 

Our future 

Hope; it’s 

Gone, instead what survives is 

Fear 

This is how we are repainting the globe; 

There is nothing you can do to stop it. 

People still have smiles, 

even over a screen 

- These will go 

Thoughts of fear 

Are winning. 

Vaccines for the virus 

That are not going to work on me. 

Saddening, hopeless words 

We speak 

‘There are no lessons’ 

Don’t lie and say: 

‘I have learnt from the pandemic’ 

Because 

This year has changed me 

For worse, 

Not For better  

(Now read backwards for the full effect; i.e ‘For better, Not For worse, This year has changed me’)