We are pleased to announce the winners of the World Haiku Contest for Schools 2010. Entrants were asked to compose their own Haiku on the theme of SCHOOL and submit it with an accompanying illustration, for a chance to win a trip to Japan for two.

All winning entries will be published in a Haiku book and winners will each receive a copy.

Grand Prize - Two return Economy Class flights to Japan with Japan Airlines plus two nights accommodation at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo

William Duggleby (12) – Thomas Keble School, Stroud
Just one flake of snow
Falls from the ice leaden sky
And Maths turns to slush

School Prize – : £100 of Book Tokens awarded to the school with the most outstanding entries.
St Cedd’s School, Essex

Runners Up – Runner up prizes including a certificate of achievement and a chance of publication in the 2010 edition of ‘Haiku by World Children’.

Ivan Anderson (7) – Skerries School, Shetland
Boats on moorings
Birds in the sky
Out the school window

Myles Cullum (9)- St Cedd’s School, Essex
On my first long day
I cried and cried all day long
Till it was home time

Amy Hammond (14) – Woodlands School, Essex
Ring, ring goes the bell
Rushing to the field squelching
in mud back to class

Anisa Khatun (7/8) – Arnhem Wharf Primary School, London
Waiting for children
Who come racing out from class
Deserted playground

Michael Lester (13) – Hornsea Secondary School, Yorkshire
The pen-stained whiteboard
Sitting in the dark corner
Longs to be dusted

Ramneet Gill (13) – Bishop Wand C of E Secondary School, Middlesex
Leaves fall from small trees
Sad war means no school for some
No skills to lead life

Ellen Woolf (14) – Bishop Wand C of E Secondary School, Middlesex
Knowledge fills your mind
But so does break time gossip
Social life at stake

Organised by the JAL Foundation and sponsored by: