On Thursday 3rd October, pupils in Year 1 to Year 6 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School took part in a Guinness World Record Attempt.
In a rare opportunity, to mark National Poetry Day, the pupils joined published poet, Laura Mucha, and thousands of other children across the world, to attempt to break the record for the largest poetry lesson (multi-venue) ever.
In order to comply with the strict Guinness World Records criteria, every pupil had to be counted as they entered the hall for the poetry lesson. A member from the Guinness Book of Records told the pupils about the record attempt and the important rules they had to follow. Then, the poetry lesson began. The theme of National Poetry Day was ‘counting’ so collaboratively (through the use of online voting) the pupils wrote a poem based on this.
A Year 5 pupil stated, “I never imagined I would ever be part of something like this, I really hope we break the record.”
As the theme of the day was counting, the pupils came to school dressed in outfits linked to this. The official from Guinness World Records promised to give a result once all the schools have sent in their video evidence. The pupils can’t wait to find out the result.