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On Thursday, 21st May, a number of students from Rugby High, their families and Rugby High staff, met at Rugby School's Eat at Ten to Three Sports Cafe for the Rupert Brooke Creative Competition for 2009 awards ceremony. Among the winners was a large number of Rugby High girls, all of whom had written extremely creative and imaginative pieces of work, in a variety of genres and styles. Overall winner was Amber Matthews. Her stunning poem "Ursa Major" stunned the judges with its inventive and extremely adventurous style. In second place was Pippa Allen-Kinross from year 12 with "The Lessons of Jonathan". In the Junior competition, Kiran Barhey triumphed with the poem "The Silence of Woman" with its (as described by Rugby School head of English Andrew Fletcher) dazzling imagery. In second place was Sarah Garland with "Learning" and in third place Catherine Shaw with her "in your face" (thank you Mr. Fletcher!) "My Old Man". Also highly commended were Alex Schofield, Daisy Woolham and Bethany Summers. The judges praised the competition winners, also well represented by Rugby School and the Crescent School students, who wrote so imaginatively on this year's theme of Education. Well done to all the winners. We are delighted that the standard of creative writing at Rugby High School remains so competitively high.
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