A pupil of Hunnyhill Primary School has won this year’s competition to create a Christmas card for Island MP Andrew Turner, following in the footsteps of last year’s winner from the same school.
The winner was Pipi-Lotta Kulla, aged eight, who designed a Christmas card illustrating the verses from the poem, the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Mr Turner said a very large number of entries had been received and the standard was very high for the annual competition. There were four independent judges and although the decision was very difficult they had eventually decided that the winner should be Pipi-Lotta because she had come up with such an original idea for the card. He also said that two pupils at Bembridge Primary School, 6 year old Herbie Bareham & 7 year old Clare Duddigan. Had also produced great designs and for the first time this year pictures from the runners up were being reproduced on the back of the main card.
At an assembly on Friday morning, he presented Pipi Lotta with a book token and 50 cards with her design and the Newport school was given 200 of the cards. Mr Turner said ‘It is always a little nerve wracking waiting to see what my Christmas card will look like each year – but every time the judges have come up trumps and chosen a well-deserved winner. I do think that Pipi-Lotta clearly put a great deal of thought and work into the design and I am sure that her friends and family will enjoy receiving the cards as much as mine do. I would like to thank the judges, but more importantly everyone who has taken the time and trouble to enter.”
