Description of activities

Coventry schools from ASPnet celebrated the Gift a Poem campaign slightly differently. In Coventry the poet laureate worked with 100 pupils from 12 schools to write haikus based on nature and peace. Our Japanese teacher Yuria Beppu supported the pupils as they wrote their poems. On 23 April, the pupils and families then came together in Coventry’s War Memorial Park for poems and picnics under the cherry blossom in the peace garden. The children recited their poems and everyone enjoyed a taiko drumming performance. It was a lovely community event.