The Full Stop Day: A Year 6 Leavers Poem

The Full Stop Day

Last six hours of primary school

Goodbye is getting near

The sums and sentences all done

The full stop day is here

Last five hours of primary school

Where everything's before

The aims and games and crazes

no one’s crazy for no more

Last four hours of primary school

Surrounded by a class

who'll scatter soon and not return

when summer’s days have passed

Last three hours of primary school

One final lunchtime play

Instead of chasing friends we try

to chase and catch the day

Last two hours of primary school

The clock hands blur and skid

Signing shirts, remembering

the coolest things we did

Last one hour of primary school

where teachers understood

And helped me see I could achieve

for they believed I could

Last half hour of primary school

The assembly we all dread

We cannot sing - us Year Six kings

The crown slips from our heads

Last ever second of primary school

The full stop rings in our ears

But a thousand chapters left to write

We must vacate our childhood site

For time moves on and time is right -

To leave our wonder years