Sienna Weir Poetry Workshop

Last Tuesday 10 September we were fortunate to have Jane Gibian join us to deliver a poetry workshop to a group of enthusiastic Year 6 and 7 poets. Jane is the author of five poetry collections, her most recent collection, Beneath the Tree Line, released in 2021. The students spent the day working in the library and the great outdoors honing the detail and emotion in their writing. They explored a number of published poems, considering how the writers employed imagery and poetic form to convey meaning before writing their own place poems and learning about Haiku.

We embarked on a Ginko (haiku nature walk) to Cook and Phillip Park where the students observed the world around them from different angles and composed their own haiku. The afternoon was spent refining and editing our writing, as well as sharing their work with peers.

This was an enriching day for the students and we are very grateful for the support of the Weir family as they have pioneered this initiative.

Sienna WEIR (2017) was a vibrant young woman with a passion for English, and in particular, poetry writing. She wrote and studied poetry from Primary School through to University and completed English at the highest level at SCEGGS, where she excelled in her HSC results and completed an Extension 2 Major Work. To celebrate her life, her family wanted to help foster a love of poetry in young writers and have sponsored a poetry workshop and Speech Night Prize aimed at students in Years 6 and 7.

Jenny Bean (Head of English) &
Cristi Wilsmore (Deputy Head of Primary)