If Shakespeare Could See Us Now

I read about the Bard upon a site,

That kids could write a sonnet on their own.

I pondered on the subject overnight,

Decided that we could; outcome unknown.

Returned to school to introduce the Bard,

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

So many rules he set to make it hard,

So hard to write a masterpiece this way,

Ideas flowed, and structure soon was built,

The syllables and rhymes worked as they ought,

Iambs in fives proved far more difficult,

The task seemed out of reach, or so we thought.

But finally our sonnets are refined,

A prouder teacher you will never find!

Wow, what a term it's been for our Year 7/8 authors! Today it was thrilling to see the pride and satisfaction on each other's faces as we put the final touches on our writing. We hope you enjoy reading our work as much as we enjoyed writing it.

Teddy Town Revisited





Erica's Solution

Welcome  back to Teddy Town. Wow! We have come a long way from our first confused and frustrated attempts at solving this puzzle. Today three of us managed to find a solution.


In Teddy Town there are four houses of each colour and four teddies of each colour. The streets are very special. If you walk along a street from east to west all the houses are a different colour and the teddies living in the houses are a different colour too. The same is true if you walk in a north south direction. In other words, looking at a map grid, each row and column must have different coloured houses and different coloured teddies. If you can find a solution to this puzzle try adding one more house and one more teddy of each colour along with five pink houses and five pink teddies and arranging them in a five by five array.



Connor's Solution

Ray's Solution