Six-year-old Aashvi Agarwal from Holy Cross Catholic Primary School in Liverpool has been named as the North West regional winner of the inaugural Premier League Writing Stars competition.
Aashvi’s poem Count to Ten was selected as the winning entry for the North West region in the Key Stage 1 age group (five to seven years old).
The poem was selected by an all-star judging panel, which featured former professional footballer and children’s author Frank Lampard, Premier League footballer and lyricist Yannick Bolasie, Children’s Laureate Lauren Child, and the young people’s laureate for London Caleb Femi, overseen by the National Literacy Trust director Jonathan Douglas.