Poet in Residence!

What a coup! Matarau School welcomed poet, Paula Green to school yesterday. Over the course of the day, Paula held sessions for the whole school in the library. Even the newest of newbies!! She read quite a few poems to us from her latest collection 'Letterbox Cat' (which has been nominated for Children's Choice at the NZ Post Book Awards!!) and showed us how much fun it is creating poems. When we went back to the classroom, we created a poem together;