Swindon school pupils decorated a section of the town’s shopping centre to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Students from Lawn Manor Academy won a competition held by The Brunel Shopping Centre to celebrate the landmark.
Schools across the town were tasked to create artwork to adorn one of the pillars based on their vision of what they would like the natural world to look like in 50 years’ time.
Lawn Manor Academy extended the competition to all pupils in Years 9, 10 and 11 as an extra-curricular opportunity to demonstrate their graphic design skills.
From the school’s lead-up competition, four pupils were chosen as the winners: Year 10 pupils Keona and M.D. and Year 11 pupils Sarah and Will.
These four then worked together to produce the final artwork on display in The Brunel.
Together with four other schools, King William Street CE Primary School, Lethbridge Primary School, Commonweal School and The Ridgeway School, all five pillars of artwork were put to a public vote online for people to vote for their favourite.
Winning the public vote with 144 votes was Lawn Manor Academy’s piece, which highlighted the plight of the oceans due to pollution and the human impact on the natural world.
The winning four pupils, together with their teacher Emma Mills were presented with a hamper of art supplies from The Brunel’s Administrator Laura Bracey.
Emma Mills, Head of Graphics at Lawn Manor Academy, said: “Our pupils really embraced the competition and we received over 60 entries from those studying Graphics and DT.
“It was a challenge to shortlist them down to the final 4 but we chose the entries that showed the best use of graphics skills and who embraced the brief.
“We are very thankful for this opportunity and look forward to entering again next year if the competition continues.
“The final artwork that they’ve then worked together to produce is an engaging and eye-catching piece that highlights the need for everyone to consider how we’re treating the natural world in order to continue enjoying it for generations to come.”
Graphic design is important at the academy with the school introducing a new GCSE covering the subject last year the school.
The artwork is displayed on pillars outside of Something Different, Supercuts, Eurochange, High Score and Blue Banana.
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