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Pupils at Burgh-by-Sands Primary School, Carlisle are celebrating this week after one of their classmates won Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s 2009 Christmas Card Competition. Neve Sowerby, seven, produced a heartwarming drawing of farm animals and wildlife spreading the Christmas message of peace and goodwill.
Ruth Irving, Year 2, 3 and 4 class teacher, said: “We are so proud that Neve has won the competition. The pupils had great fun with their drawings.”
The winning design was selected from over 600 entries from across Cumbria and will be made into the Trust’s Christmas card. The competition this year is celebrating the Trust’s new Gosling Sike Farm, near Carlisle and entries had to show wildlife and farm animals together with a Christmas theme. The card will be sent to around 500 of the Trust’s friends and partners. Cumbria-based photographer John Morrison judged the competition.
John said: “There were so many good entries, but only three prizes on offer, which
made it difficult to pick a winner. In the end I went for pictures that I could really imagine as Christmas cards, that would raise a smile as the envelope was opened…”
As well as having her design published, Neve has won an Inktense pencil box set, donated by Derwent and pantomime tickets donated by The Sands Centre.
The Central Cumbria category of the competition was won by Dominic Clark of St Begh’s Catholic Junior School in Whitehaven. He has received tickets to Theatre By the Lake’s Grimm Tales. In addition, the school put together such a good collection of drawings that St Begh’s won the prize for the best effort made by a school or group. A class from the school has free entry to the Pencil Museum in Keswick.
In the South Cumbria category, Eloise Vernon Brown from Newbarns Primary School in Barrow-in-Furness has won tickets to The Brewery’s Aladdin.
View the winning entries of the North, Central and South Cumbria regions.
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