Every year the Spelthorne in Bloom com-petition encourages us to tend our gar-dens, big and small. Blooming gardens embellish our borough and bring us all a sense of well being, whether we are tend-ing them or just admiring them.
The launch of the competition sees the crowning of talent of another kind. The children’s poster competition gives pri-mary school children the chance to show off their own skills, namely painting and drawing. It is open to all children up to the age of 11 years who live in Spelthorne. The overall winning entry will be used to promote Spelthorne in Bloom and the winning poster will fea-ture on the front cover of the entry form and other publicity materials for the 2021 competition.
The Spelthorne in Bloom committee is pleased to open this years poster competi-tion this month.
This year’s theme is ‘Climate Change’. The judges would like to see posters that are bright and colourful encouraging chil-dren to use their imagination to interpret how the plants, flowers and vegetables growing in their own gardens at home or at school are being affected by rising tem-peratures and changes in local rainfall. They would also like the words Spelthorne in Bloom to be included on the poster.
Entries can either be hand drawn (or painted) or designed on a computer. The judges will pick 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, grouped for children aged 5 -7 and 8 – 11.
In past years Spelthorne’s schools have organised this competition and sent the posters back to the Council offices for judging. However, with most schools cur-rently closed, the committee are asking parents (and indeed grandparents) to en-courage their children to take part from home, for themselves or as a school art class project.
The committee would like to receive all entries via email, so ask you to photo-graph or scan your poster and send it to: spelthorne.inbloom@spelthorne.gov.uk for the attention of Vanessa Surmon.
Please ensure that the child’s name, age and school are included in the email oth-erwise the poster will not be judged. The closing date for receipt of entries is Fri-day 9th April at 4pm.
It would be lovely to make this a bumper year of bright and inspiring art. We look forward to seeing the many entries and sharing the winning poster with you in Sunbury Matters in a future issue.