Christmas lights designed by school children - Shining Bright

December 2011

MYTHOLMROYD IS SHINING BRIGHT

The past 2 years have seen a very special challenge for our local school children, to design a Christmas light which would help Mytholmroyd to shine bright throughout the festive season.

This year there were many entries from the boys and girls from Primary schools in Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd, with many showing considerable artistic flair for their age . On the day of judging the Councillors had their work cut out as all the enties were wonderful and joy for the judges to look at them all. After much deliberation the winners for 2011 were picked.

Thus year's winners were Abbie Chambers of Burnley Road Academy with her Christmas Stocking Design, Ruby Fisher of Cragg Vale Junior & Infant School who designed a lovely Christmas Pudding and Finn Sierevogel Scout Road Academy with a very creative Rudolf dresses as Father Christmas.

Fabulous Designs

At the prize giving I was accompanied by Councillor Bampton Smith and Emma Housman, during my remarks I exclaimed how proud we all were in the children's designs and that their lights would be on show fo many many years. The children and their parents were obviously very proud.

Proud winners

The project has been a great success for Hebden Royd the past 2 years and is set to continue to the future, special thanks to all of the schools involved and also Emma Housman.

Next year we may hopefully see even more enties as this has really captured the hearts an minds of our local children. It is a great opportunity for the children to get involved with their area and design something that may be seen for generations.

Scott