The  exciting 2013 Hackney Teaching School Alliance Slam took place on 21st June at the Round Chapel in Clapton. Year 6 pupils from Kingsmead School worked with well-known poets and spoken word artists in the lead up to the event, writing and developing their own poetry and raps along the theme of identity. Children wrote amazing pieces of free verse poetry and a group of Kingsmead children were selected to perform their poems to a dynamic and loud audience of over 500. Our drummers and steel pan players entertainted the crowd during the event as well. They were all fantastic and did us proud!]