Harry Baker performance

review by Grade 5 students

Have you ever wondered how German, falafel, and poetry link together?

On February 2nd, Grades 4 and 5 had an incredible experience of seeing the famous poetry star- Harry Baker. Who is Harry Baker? What were our first impressions of his performance? Read our review to find out.

Harry Baker was born in Ealing 1992; Harry Baker grew up as part of a Christian community in West Londan. Baker switched from studying medicine to having a passion for poetry and loved mathematics and German which he studied at Bristol university. His first ever poetry collection was called ‘The Sunshine Kid’ and he liked to make poems out of prime numbers.

Another piece of Harry Baker’s work is a ‘Bumble bee” poem. This poem was really engaging and unique to the audience. Before the poem started, he asked us (the audience) to tell him words that rhymed with ‘bumble.’ Grades 4 and 5 students replied: ‘grumble, tumble, rumble’ and many more. When this wonderful poet was reading his amazing piece of poetry, all the students were listening to Harry Baker so carefully! (It was the quietest 5 minutes of our lives). After the ‘Bumblebee’ poem, some children were asking Harry Baker very interesting questions. One girl from grade 5 asked about his favorite place he has visited.

Grade 4 and 5 really enjoyed Harry Baker’s visit to NLCS Dubai. We especially enjoyed when he interacted with the audience asking us to say German words like “Falafelloffel” which means falafel spoon. He said this because he ran a marathon dressed up as a falafel spoon. He even recited a poem in German and made the German speakers laugh. His humorous ways enchanted the audience. He recited a poem called paper people which won the award of best poem in the world. It was made to be a tongue twister so have a go:

I like people.

I'd like some paper people.

They'd be purple paper people.

Maybe pop-up purple paper people.

Proper pop-up purple paper people.

How do you prop up proper pop-up purple paper people, I hear you cry?

Well I, I'd probably prop up proper pop-up purple paper people with a proper prop up purple people paper clip

But I'd pre-prepare appropriate adhesives as alternatives

A cheeky pack of blu-tack just in case the paper slipped.