Frank Lambard and Yannick Bolasie were on the panel of judges that named this six-year-old girl at a school in Blackheath the best poet in the country.

Amelie was one of 25,000 kids to enter the Premier League Writing Stars competition with her poem Monkey Bars.

The Blackheath Preparatory School girl had her poem selected from that giant pool of poems to be the winner of the national award.

Kalpana, Amelie’s mum, said: “Our family is thrilled that Amelie has won. We are also a bit shocked considering that she was up against so many other children across the country.”

The winner was selected from children between the ages of five and seven, and the winning poems will be read aloud by football stars and published in a poetry book.

The theme of the competition was resilience and Amelie wrote about climbing monkey bars and getting strong enough to be able to climb across them by herself.

Asides from the Premier League stars, other judges included Children's Laureate Lauren Child and the young people’s laureate for London Caleb Femi.

Lauren Child said: “I loved Amelie’s poem because it had a great feeling of progression in it. It was really about what is the very heart of being resilient I think, which is that she managed to talk about something very personal and take us through it in a way that there was a sort of beginning middle and end feeling to it, which is quite something to be able to do in just a few lines and I think we all really loved it.”

Richard McIntosh, head of boys games/PE at Blackheath Preparatory School, said: “We encouraged the whole school to write poems and enter the Writing Stars competition and we’ve had so many who did so.

“We are very happy to see that Amelie has won the competition on a national level. She’s an amazing kid and a bright student and we are all very proud of her.”

Here is Amelie’s poem in full:

Monkey bars in the playground

High off the ground.

At first I was scared

Just hanging there

I felt unprepared.

“Mummy!” I would shout

"Please come and help me out!"

Every day I would climb back on

Swinging and falling

Then trying again until everyone was gone.

Slowly my arms got stronger

As I stayed on for longer

Now I love to cross from one side to the other.

But this time

Without any help from my Mamma.