Wendy Cope, one of Britain's best loved poets visited the school on Wednesday 6th May to give an after-school poetry reading.

Wendy, who lives in Winchester studied history at St Hilda's College, Oxford and spent 15 years as a primary school teacher before turning to writing full-time. She was a television critic for The Spectator magazine until 1990.

Her poetry collections include Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986), Serious Concerns (1992) and If I Don't Know (2001), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. She has edited a number of poetry anthologies including The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (1993), Is That The New Moon? (1989), The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems (1998) and The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories (1999) and Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems (2001). She is also the author of two books for children, Twiddling Your Thumbs (1988) and The River Girl (1991).

In 1998 she was the listeners' choice in a BBC Radio 4 poll to succeed Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate. Her latest book, Two Cures for Love (2008) is a selection of previous poems with notes, together with new poems.