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20 June 2026

Posted by Amelia Simpson

Teletubbys and Poetry

We started off with a communal poem. Somewhat abstract - but not lacking pazazz, this is the poem we came up with. 


Junior Writers Poem:

Hi cheese puff

I like you

OH! 

You 

Are SO 

Delicious 

Said Bob, 

And I am 

Your Courgette 

Murderer 

Goodbye forever 

Evil-mastermind 

I don’t like you 

Courgette murderer 

Said the courgette murderer 

Tomato slingshot 

Micheal jackson 

I will steal the 

Most expensive 

Murder gadget 

Of the 

Blackmarket 

Suddenly there 

Was a swatted fly 

Doing moonwalking 

Whilst a 

Police officer 

Broke the

Laws of gravity 

I don’t know 

Milo can take 

All kinds of 

Mysterious seashells on 

Resurrected swatted fly 

That’s singing billie-jean 

I don’t know but I think, 

You know more 

About being evil 


Then Ali got everyone to stand on a piece of paper. She makes them close their eyes. She put a bear in the centre of the room - the teddy is ‘PO’ from the Teletubbies. 


They open the paper they are stood on; it reveals a character. The characters included: Dogs, poets, toddlers, babies etc. 


The prompt was to write about finding Po in a room from your character's perspective


Siya: dog 


I ran into the room to find a deranged chicken. I lose control. A creepy dog obb-gob and all the other deranged chickens came in evil. 


Sophie: child 

A terrifying human thing in the middle of the room. Singing ‘you shall die tonight’ it started walking.


Phoebe: child 

I found my favourite toy in the room - it started screaming ahh! I ran out of the room screaming like a Teletubbuy. 


Milo: 

Slowly entered the room - demon on the floor - left the room. I gnawed the demon to death 


We then changed the perspective of our stories from our characters to Po. 

Different perspective: 


Different perspective: 

These stories were scary, and saw Po facing all kinds of issues. 


Writers of the week were

Junior: Zoya and Jem

Young:


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