Silver Tongue

Dangerous and powerful ocean by our talented Zara, aged 7.

Join us on 6th April, let’s capture the dramatic swells and swirls of big oceans above and below!

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Yesterday we had our ‘For the Love of Poetry’ workshop and they came up with a beautifully scary poem:

‘The Witch Hour’ by Jodie, Kalen, Olivia, Sophie and Taïni.



Her face is green

And she feasts on bats

She wears a tall black hat

And she has a ginger cat



She rode her broom at the full moon

She likes to whistle a nice tune

Gaining speed as she glides through the air

She goes round the houses,

Steeling children’s sweets.

Her laugh is like nails on a chalk board.



So beware children of the witch hour,

And stay underneath your sheets!

“Cauldrons are one of the most potent symbols of witchcraft. They were used historically for many different purposes, including preparing potions. This particular example was found in the River Thames at Battersea in 1861, and had perhaps been deposited as an offering to the gods. It is almost 3000 years old and was created by riveting together seven plates of sheet bronze.“

Julian Harrison (Lead Curator, Harry Potter: A History of Magic)

How did Halloween start?

The ancient Celtic festival of Samhain honoured the dead and welcomed winter. It was a luminal time when the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead could be crossed.

Yes, I think a poem is a spell of kinds
that keeps things living in a written line,
whatever’s lost or leaving - lock of rhyme - and so I write and write and write your name.

Spell by Carol Ann Duffy

Images from ‘The History of Witches and Wizards’ 1720 Wellcome Library