Year 11 students visited Birmingham Symphony Hall to enjoy the GCSE Poetry Live event on Monday 20th January.

This informative and enjoyable event was well received by a packed Symphony Hall, who were treated to both chief examiner sessions along with a range of live performances from the cream of  modern British poets who feature on the GCSE syllabus.

As ever the highlight being John Agard’s much-anticipated electrifying performance that drew together, science, mathematics, history and identity.

“Who knew there could be a poem about equilateral triangles wanting to be a snowflake”, said Rajbir, a member of our group.