IMPORTANT UPDATE

February 2025 - WE DID IT!  WE ARE WORLD RECORD HOLDERS!

Back in October, Year 5 and 6 took part in a Guinness World Record attempt for the largest ever poetry lesson. Over 1000 schools took part, including us! We had to monitor everything very closely and evidence had to be submitted to the World Record officials. It has taken GWR adjudicators 4 months to process all the entries and about 500 of the schools who entered provided sufficient evidence to meet the requirements of the record attempt.  We are pleased to announce that we were successful and are now the proud owners of our very own Guinness World Record certificate! The formal record is for 43,516 people, which is enough to fill a football stadium!

Watch this video to see how we did it:  We've Broken a Guinness World Records Title! 

Listen to the poem that we helped create here: What Do You Think Counts? - The Children’s Poetry Archive

October 2024 - World Record Attempt 

On Thursday 3rd October, we took part in a Guinness World Record attempt for National Poetry Day 2024. We were involved in the largest poetry lesson in the world, where over 60,000 children would be taking part.  Firstly, we had to officially be counted into the hall and Mrs Fray had to watch to make sure the teachers were counting correctly!  

Then we all sat and watched the lesson and we had to vote on parts of the poem we liked.  We chose for the animal to be an axolotl and we wanted it to be called Ron!  But, in the end, the majority of schools voted for Bob, which was our second choice so we didn't mind. 

Stay tuned for the finished version of the poem, which is soon to be published!  We will also receive our very own World Record Breakers certificate!