Funny School Poems

When I first started writing funny children's poetry, I decided that children spent so much time at school that the last thing they would want to read were poems about school. I found that I was wrong and that although many pupils have a love-hate relationship with school, they do have an appetite for funny school poems. So here they are, a collection of funny poems about school, horrible teachers, boring lessons, naughty pupils, cruel punishments and lots of other school related activities.

Seven Wonders of the World

A poem about a pupil daydreaming in one of those really long, really boring classes which seem as though they'll never end.

Library Rules

Firstly, an apology, because if you're somebody who counts the number of lines a poem has, this is a really long poem at 24 lines. It is, however, written in the form of a short poem with very short lines and lots of rhymes. Anyway, it's a poem about the rules and regulations dictating what you can and can't do in a library.

Excuse Me

A boy playing in the school orchestra has a desperate need to go to the toilet, but what can he do to get the attention of the teacher in charge?

Half Truths

A poem about the first day in a new school, or perhaps the first day in a new class, when the teacher in a completely cringe-worthy manner, and in front of the whole class, asks the pupils about themselves and their families. The whole exercise is meant to put everyone at their ease, but in this poem Timmy's answers to his teacher's questions are less than reassuring.

Crime and Punishment

I was at school long enough ago that pupils who had been really naughty were caned and those who had been quite naughty were put in detention. Being in detention meant doing extra school work or the dreaded 'lines' when all your fellow pupils were enjoying themselves, or after they had gone home. Crime and Punishment is a poem about being put in detention and writing lines in which the teacher seems to have gone a step too far whilst administering justice.