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In Car Poetry


School pupils across the Gwent region have been challenged to compose a poem with a road safety theme and illustrate it appropriately.

The Illustrated Poem Competition is an annual event that is jointly organised by Heddlu Gwent Police and the Road Safety Section of Capita Symonds. This year the theme is “In - Car Safety” which encompasses seatbelts, mobile phones, airbags, driver impairment and distractions such as noisy or disruptive passengers.

There are first prizes of £100 each for the best junior and senior entries, as well as runner up prizes of £50 in each category. The competition is open to all young people in Gwent. This year the schools in each category that submit the most entries pro rata will also receive £50.

Penny Thorpe, Principal Road Safety Officer with Capita Symonds said, “The Illustrated Road Safety Poem Competition is now an established part of the Spring Term curriculum in many schools and I am looking forward to reading their innovative and sometimes amusing entries.”

Penny continued, “Selected poems from the first five years of the competition were collected into a book titled ‘Outside my Front Door’ for use as a teaching resource using funding from the Welsh Assembly Government. Every school in Gwent received a copy. Perhaps some of the poems we have here today may eventually be part of a second book.”

The closing date of 16 April 2010 has been set so that teachers could set the competition as part of the Easter holiday homework.

For more information about how to enter the competition please follow this link http://www.roadstuff.co.uk/whats-new-for-teachers/i/574/