Thursday 11 October 2007

P7 writing for Burma

This poem and report are written by 2 Forthview P7s at home in their own space and time this week. I am struck by the breadth of their understanding of the Burmese people's stories. First a poem by Jamie Leigh, who started off this blog way back on 28 March 07, when she gave me 80 bhat to take to Hle Bee School.

SAVE BURMESE PEOPLE

Saving lots of children's lives
And giving things to the poor
Very important things are happening
Every day in Burma

Burmese children are escaping to Thailand
Under the bridge people are hiding
Remember them forever in your hearts
Monks are praying for peace
Everyone now joins in to help them out
Someday they will be safe from soldiers
Everyday Forthview will sell orange badges

People from Scotland are helping Burma
Everyday monks will sit in front of soldiers
On Ms Laing's birthday, Hle Bee waved to her
People try to see Aung San Suu Kyi
Love and care from everyone
Everyone is buying bands to support monks

Then a report from Chelsea called, THE STORY ABOUT BURMA

The story about Burma has been shocking. For the last few weeks people are being killed. Monks are being killed and Aung San Suu Kyi has been locked up in her house for lots of years. People in Burma are worried of what might happen to them. The children in Hle Bee ran away from Burma adn now they have nothing to do or play with and every day when they go home they do work. At Hle Bee they only have 1 toilet and Forthview has 39! Ms Laing went to Thailand and she went into Hle Bee and at the school the chairs sunk every 5 minutes. So Ms Laing put a floor for them and it cost £137. Now it will stop the children from sinking every 5 minutes. The nursery has about 46 children in it and in the nursery children sleep in the afternoon on the floor. Forthview children went on the radio and told everyone and now the whole world knows about whats happened. Forthview Primary has put a blogspot on the Internet so people can look at it. Now Forthview has been making ribbons that are orange to make us remember the monks. Now people will remember about what's happened now we've told them.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i thought this very good indeed,it is nice to see these children understanding a little about the world and how poor other countries are.
i am thrilled to see my granddaughter chelsea's name for the story. keep up the good work all

Forthview said...

Thank you Mrs Paris for your very supportive comments. Your grandchildren are settling so well in Forthview and Chelsea is quite an all round star so we are delighted to share her work with the world. I look forward to meeting you sometime.
Ms Sheila Laing
Headteacher

Anonymous said...

great poem by jamie leigh and alsochelsea's story, people should be very greatful to forthview for highlighting these sad affairs that are happening over in burma, hopefully now somthing will be done to support these people and things are not swept away under the carpet which is what we often see all to many times.

again congrats to ms laing and forthview for their efforts.