Pendle Hill inspires creative classmates to become published poets

The year six students at Read Primary School wrote the poem last year for a website called Places of Poetry, after their teacher, Miss Katherine Threlfall, saw it featured on the TV show Countryfile.

So the youngsters were delighted to hear their verse, Pendle Hill, would also appear in print in a book called Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse.'

The anthology includes work from established poets and new writers in a celebration of Britain's landmarks and landscapes including its farms and moors, motorways and waterways, highlands and beaches.

Miss Threlfall said: "The class were so pleased with the news and also the fact they are able to see their work in print."

Last month the youngsters used their writing skillls to back a campaign to save 30 trees that were earmarked for the chop to make way for a tram line in Scotland.

Stories written by the children were hung on the threatened trees in Leith, Ediburgh. And the youngsters penned tales from the point of view of the trees to get the community on board in the bid to save them from the chop.

The children became involved in the battle thanks to Miss Threlfall's brother, Tim, who who launched the campaign to save the trees.