ESSEX YOUNG POET OF THE YEAR COMPETITION 2009

Winners

This years Essex Young poet of the Year is Lauren Bailey
for her poem The Seaside

Essex Young poet of the Year is Lauren Bailey
Lauren receives her award from poet John Row, with chairman of the judges John Steer

 

Other winners were

Category  

Name

School or Town
7 and Under 1st Lauren Bailey Elm Green Prep School, Little Baddow, Chelmsford
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2nd Joseph Hayhurst Mersea Island School, West Mersea
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3rd Bethany French St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School,
Canvey Island
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Highly Commended Barnabas Norton Mersea Island School, West Mersea

     

11 and Under

1st Callum Sims

St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Canvey Island

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2nd equal Charles Penfold St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School,
Canvey Island
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2nd equal Mitchell Willimott Mersea Island School, West Mersea
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Highly Commended

Lucy Curtis

R. A. Butler Junior School, Saffron Walden
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 Jamie Griffiths Feering Primary School
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Tegan Kitchen St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School,
Canvey Island
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Connor Larkin / Elliott Whyman St. John’s C of E Primary School, Danbury
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Sophia Letchfield Writtle Junior School, Writtle, Chelmsford
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Mark Pickett Harold Hill
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Lucas Schofield-Poore Writtle Junior School, Writtle, Chelmsford
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Callum Sims St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School,
Canvey Island
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 George Thurgood Mersea Island School, West Mersea

     

14 and Under

1st Alex Broad The Sweyne Park School, Rayleigh
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2nd Katie Smith Manningtree High School

     

16 and Under

1st Phoebe Wood Witham
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2nd  Daisy Jones Ardleigh, Colchester
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3rd Bethany Manning Harwich

 

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