BY waxing lyrical, four Bishopstoke pupils have chalked up a tree-mendous literary achievement.

Stoke Park Infant scholars Joe Bennett, seven; Danica Claydon, five; Jessica Collings, six; and Emma Cox, seven, have won national recognition for writing about their favourite trees.

More than 300,000 primary school kids across the UK were asked to come up with poems and illustrations for the Growing with Trees poetry anthology which will be published this month.

Stoke Park pupils were the first to put pen to paper in the nationwide challenge.

Earlier in the year popular children's poet and author Michael Rosen visited the school and its woodland setting was a perfect setting for the national poetry launch.

With a bluebell wood in the school's backyard the young poets did not have to look too far for inspiration.

Fifteen Stoke Park pupils have also been invited to Wimbledon's Polka Children's Theatre to perform a short drama to help launch the poetry anthology.

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