“In The Jungle” was the theme of the 2015 Millicent Kaye Art Competition for Primary-aged children in Years 5 and 6 from the Oswestry area.  8 schools took part this year: Packwood Haugh, Trefonen C.E. Primary School, West Felton C.E. Primary School, Moreton First, Our Lady and St Oswald’s Catholic Primary School, the Meadows County Primary School, Holy Trinity C.E. Primary School and Kinnerley C.E. Primary School producing a staggering 234 2-dimensional entries and 25 3-dimensional entries!

Charlotte Jackson, Arts Co-ordinator at the Qube has worked tirelessly with Rotarian Peter Hill and his Vocational Committee to get the winning entries, all 33 which either were judged to be in the top 3 entries in their class, or highly commended, mounted, framed and hung.  The First Prize in the 2-dimensional category went to Orlando Bayliss from Packwood Haugh and First Prize in the 3-dimensional art category went to Grace Thompson from Moreton First with the school which was considered to have made the most effort and contributed most to the competition being Trefonen C.E. Primary School.

So Trefonen will have the special privilege of keeping the Millicent Kaye Trophy in their school for a year; it is a painting of a young girl painted by Millicent Kaye herself, a local artist who died in 1996 and whose legacy lives on through the competition which bears her name.

Before the prize-giving President Mike Griffiths thanked all the entrants for their splendid efforts and spoke of his son, now a film editor for Disney, whose favourite subject at school was, needless to say, art!   “Keep up the good work because you never know where it will lead” he said before handing over to Rotarian Peter Hill to present the prizes.

After the prize-giving Peter thanked Charlotte Jackson from the Qube as well as our judge, Joan Turner, herself a local artist, who had set the theme for the competition.  Joan said “it is difficult to come up with new themes and also to choose winners from such a strong field of entries, but I really enjoy it!”

The exhibition of the children’s work will be at the Qube until Monday 29th June so we hope as many people as possible will go to view it.

Millicent Kaye Memorial Art Competition Awards – 2015

TWO DIMENSIONAL ART WORK

First Prize

ORLANDO BAYLISS                             PACKWOOD HAUGH SCHOOL          

Second Prize

DASIE-MAI HINGLEY                             TREFONEN C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL                                              

Third Prize

MADDIE HUGHES                               WEST FELTON C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

Highly Commended

HANNAH ANDREWS                           MORETON HALL

CHARLOTTE CROW                            MORETON HALL

MORGAN DAVIES                               OUR LADY AND ST OSWALD’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

LUCY EDWARDS                                 TREFONEN C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

ISABELLA FINNEY                                KINNERLEY C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

EDWARD FORDE-JOHNSTON            PACKWOOD HAUGH SCHOOL

ANDREW HOLLYWELL                        OUR LADY AND ST OSWALD’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

IONA HUGHES-WILLIAMS                  MORETON HALL

SCOTT JONES                                      OUR LADY AND ST OSWALD’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

HUW LOGSDAIL-JONES                      OUR LADY AND ST OSWALD’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

POPPY McCLENHAHAN                      TREFONEN C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

LUCY JAYEN McGUIRE                        MORETON HALL

BERK MEHMEDOV                             HOLY TRINITY C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

SAM MORRIS                                      TREFONEN C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

FINNLEY PARR                                    MORETON HALL

EMILY PUGH                                       TREFONEN C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

LUCY REES                                           MORETON HALL

WILLIAM TATE                                    PACKWOOD HAUGH SCHOOL

TOM UNNETT                                     WEST FELTON C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

ELSA WATERHOUSE                           PACKWOOD HAUGH SCHOOL

JENNY YOUNG                                    WEST FELTON C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

THREE DIMENSIONAL ART WORK

First Prize

GRACE THOMPSON                           MORETON HALL

Second Prize

MALACHY BYRNE                                 THE MEADOWS COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Highly Commended

KARA BOTHAM                                  OUR LADY AND ST OSWALD’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

JOE BYRNE                                          THE MEADOWS COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

JACK DOLDER                                     MORETON HALL

NICOLE FROST                                    OUR LADY AND ST OSWALD’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

KORNELIA KIELAN                              OUR LADY AND ST OSWALD’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

THOMAS MELLOR                              KINNERLEY C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

DAISY WHITELAM                               OUR LADY AND ST OSWALD’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

The school which the judge considered to have made the most effort and the winner of the Millicent Kaye Trophy for 2015 is –

TREFONEN C.E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

Thanks are due to the staff of the participating schools and the judge – Mrs Joan Turner.

Thanks are also due to the QUBE for hosting the exhibition of the winning and other chosen paintings and 3-D exhibits – commencing on Monday 15^th June 2015 and continuing until Monday 29^th June.

The prizes are sponsored by the Mary Hignett Bequest Fund, administered by the Rotary Club of Oswestry.