Five talented writers who imagined themselves at the front line of war have won tickets to a theatre production.

Year 8 students Aiga Zelve, Oliver Betts, Archie Lyall, Sarah Madsen, Jordan Canham will be watching the stage version of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful at the Theatre Royal, Norwich in May.

They won the prize for a piece of creative writing in which they had to imagine themselves as a soldier penning a letter home to a relative.

English Teacher Lisa Lockyer said: “We were really impressed by the entries and it was something that was done in the students own time.

Year 8 students have been reading private Peaceful and looking at War poetry and you could really see that in their choice of language.”

The winner will join a trip on May 2^nd to see he popular play. Students who also attended intervention sessions have also been awarded tickets to the play.