be creative!
Whether you win or not, taking part in competitions is a great way of improving your skills.
Most competitions have themes and working to a brief or theme is good practice.
Highland Council/Lyreco Calendar 2006 Landscape paintings based on 'places of note' or beautiful views within Highland region suitable for each month of the year. Press release. The five winners were presented with their prizes in the Highland Council Chambers, Inverness.
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Japan Society of Scotland/Consulate General of Japan Paintings and/or essay submissions showing how young people view links between Scotland and Japan in 2006. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan report on the 2005 EU-Japan Year of People-to-People Exchanges. Arthur Kirkwood and his family were invited to a weekend party at Tulliallan Castle in Fife.
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Royal Society of Chemistry Photography Competition Photographs showing how chemistry had affected the modern world. Press release. Kieran Baxter was presented with his prize at the RSC in London.
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Poster Competition A lot of strong entries from GGS, but due to a huge amount of entries country-wide and a very high standard, no winners from Grantown unfortunately. Press release.
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Doodle4GoogleDesign a new Google logo based on the theme of "My Britain". You can replace any of the letters as long as the viewer can still tell that they have reached the Google homepage. Deadline - 14th July 2006 |
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National Pavement Artist Competition Jessica Barlow of S1 had her pavement painting entered into a national competition in aid of Muscular Dystrophy. She did very well and had her work displayed at the Tate Gallery in London as part of the finalists' exhibition. Read the article in the Strathy here. |
Highland Council/Lyreco Calendar 2007 With even more prize winners than last year, Grantown Grammar pupils took 4 first prizes and 3 runners up prizes - an amazing achievement! There were a lot of high quality entries from our pupils on themes related to Highland 2007.
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