Calendar Boys and Girls (26/09/06)

Twelve Highland pupils have won top prizes in an art competition to design the 2007 calendar of Lyreco Office Supplies. Each winning pupil received a playstation portable as well as £125 each for their schools at a ceremony at The Highland Council’s Education Culture and Sport Committee in Inverness.  Their designs, based on a local cultural feature to mark Highland 2007,  will feature in the calendar. Runners-up received a television and DVD Combo and £75 for their schools. The competition was sponsored by: Fellowes, Brother, Stabilo and Avery Dennison.

The winning pupils were:

• Kirsty Fraser, Phoebe Kirkwood, Arthur Kirkwood, and Fergus Thom, Grantown Grammar School;
• Michael Crowe, Caithness Early Years Autism Centre;
  Daniel Taylor, South School, Wick;
• Iain Anderson, Thurso High School;
• Claire O’Donnell, Invergordon Academy;
• Ruth Shilllaker, Lochcarron Primary School;
• Cullan Bruce, Mulbuie Primary;
• Ross Balharry, Glenurquhart High School;
• Christina Wilkie, Roy Bridge Primary.
  

The twelve runners up were:

• Megan Druce, Thomas Caldwell, Vicky Beattie, Grantown Grammar School;
• Kirsten Brown, Jordan Ross, Charleston Academy, Inverness;
• Sophie-Ann Bain, Evan Imlach, Thurso High School;
• April Wright, Alness Academy;
• Kirstin Forsyth, Deshar Primary School;
• Catriona Robertson, Mulbie Primary School;
• Erin Kish, Kinlochbervie Primary;
• Freya Cushnie, Lochcarron Primary  

The Lyreco catalogues will be distributed to all schools and Council Services.

Andrew O’Sullivan, strategic account manager of Lyreco said: "We were delighted with the quality of the 2,500 entries in this year’s annual Lyreco schools design competition, which recognises the importance of Highland 2007, the year Scotland celebrates Highland culture.”
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