During an English lesson this week, Class P studied Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson and then continued the poem in a similar style for two further stanzas.

Mrs Pestana was heartily impressed by the results and highlighted Jamie and Roshan’s work as particularly notable.

Here, then, is the original poem, followed by the two continuations:

Windy Nights

Whenever the moon and stars are set,

Whenever the wind is high,

All night long in the dark and wet,

A man goes riding by.

Late in the night when the fires are out,

Why does he gallop and gallop about?

Whenever the trees are crying aloud,

And ships are tossed at sea,

By, on the highway, low and loud,

By at a gallop goes he.

By at the gallop he goes, and then.

By he comes back at the gallop again.