06/05/2026 | Aarika Das Panda (Y12)
Performative Male Pro-Tip: Don’t just watch movies—read poems about them.

30/04/26 | Aarika Das Panda (Y12)
A poem about the famous raindrop race we all did as kids.

23/04/2026 | Aarika Das Panda (Y12)
Aarika is hit with a burst of inspiration after her yearly Finding Nemo rewatch

26/03/2026 | Lucia Chavez (Y7)
QUICK, CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE IF YOU CAN SPELL THE TITLE OF THIS POEM CORRECTLY WITHOUT LOOKING!!!

02/04/2026 | Olive Chavez (Y7)
Whatever is going on in the poetry unit of middle school English is producing a series of ominous poetry from Year 7s and it’s scaring me.

26/03/2026 | Aarika Das Panda (Y12)
If spring isn’t your thing and you’re just missing the cold clammy feeling of existential dread that winter provides, then maybe this is the poem for you

26/02/2026 | Sufi Irwan (Y7)
The Trump reference becomes infinitely funnier when you think about his fake tans and the fact that this poem is called ‘I Hate Winter’

26/03/2026 | Amara Nwachuku (Y8)
I’m not sure what is propogating the rise in La Chât middle schoolers writing absurdist fiction for the Update but I’m even more scared of them than I was before.

19/03/2026 | Aarika Das Panda (Y12)
Why can’t life be like this again first day of school bringing in mini packed lunches but NOOO we HAD to get OLDER and do the IB. ugh.

12/03/2026 | Aarika Das Panda (Y12)
The Update team had a fun time trying to figure out what this poem was meant to represent…