Primary school pupils will team up with senior members of a poetry group to celebrate the past and future during World Book Week.

The Redbridge Rhymesters will welcome students from Snaresbrook Primary School to The Allan Burgess Centre in Grove Park, Wanstead on Tuesday (March 5).

The school, which supports AgeUK Redbridge, believes it will be a good opportunity for the children to meet some of the people who use the activity centre, which is part of AgeUK Redbridge.

Ms Wilde said: "It will be wonderful to welcome children from Snaresbrook Primary School once again to join us on 5 March; the intergenerational meeting of creative minds always results in some brilliant poems, and gives the children a chance to learn how people from different eras and places can be encouraged to share their knowledge through reminiscing about past experiences, and preserve it through the medium of poetry."

The theme for the March meeting is 'Back to the Future' which will involve senior poets writing poems on life 50 years ago and children creating poems about what they think life will be like in 50 years' time.

Creative poetry group the Redbridge Rhymesters' was launched more than 10 years ago by Ms Wilde after AgeUK Redbridge's Voices of Experience co-ordinator, Janet West, found a poem she had written about her grandmother.

A pamphlet of the poems written by participants in the workshop will be produced.

The group is due to meet at the Allan Burgess Centre at 2 Grove Park in Wanstead on Tuesday at 10.30am.

The Allan Burgess Centre is open for everyone aged 55+, and offers a many activities, such as chair exercise groups, art, craft, photography and board games clubs.

For more information about the Redbridge Rhymesters email alexandra.wilde@ntlworld.com.