This year, at Newminster Middle School, we supported Comic Relief by creating and selling a book of limericks in aid of the charity – ‘Lockdown Limericks by NMS’. We encouraged all of our students and staff to write a humorous limerick to be included in the book and got hundreds!

The book was printed by Book Printing UK and has been sold with all profits being donated to Comic Relief. As an Artsmark Platinum school we wanted to create something to make everyone smile at this difficult time and pull together as a full school community. Doing this through poetry has also supported the pupils literacy and reading skills and they were delighted to read the finished book. I have attached some photos of the school community reading our book!