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Shanks Calendar Competition
Reduce Reuse Recycle Calendar Competition
Shanks would like to thank all Primary Schools in Cumbria for their magnificent standard of entries for the 2012 Calendar Competition. This is the second year of the Shanks Cumbria Reduce Reuse Recycle Calendar Competition and it has been a huge success. The team have had a great time looking at the individual entries and have found it very difficult to choose a winner. After some deliberation we have chosen the following for 1st, 2nd & 3rd Prizes. Well done to you all!!
2012 Calendar Competition Winner
1st Place: Madeleine Stanford (age 10), Thomlinson Junior School, Wigton
2nd Place: Jake Jackson (age 9), St Margaret Mary Catholic Primary School, Carlisle
3rd Place: Iona Ford (age9), Gosforth C of E Primary School, Seascale
Captain Recycle: Shanks recycling mascot will be making a visit to Thomlinson Junior School to present their vouchers with the winning calendar.
Picture of the winning images and Captain Recycle will follow.
How to enter for 2013 calendar
The Calendar Competition is open to all primary school children years 5-6. The aim is to produce an image which will motivate people to reduce reuse and recycle more of their waste. The winning image will then be used to produce a 2013 year view wall calendar which will be distributed to all primary schools taking part in the competition.
In order to take part please send an email to shankscumbria@shanks.co.uk and confirm your participation in the competition. Then choose up to 3 images from each class and send them to us by 31st of October 2012. The following details will need to be put onto the back of the picture:
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Name of child
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Age
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Name of the School
Address to send entries to:
Shanks Waste Management
Northern Resource Park
Hespin Wood
Rockcliffe
Carlisle
CA6 4BJ
All received images will be judged by our management team based on artistic flair and the skill used to get across the reduce reuse recycle message. Once the winner is chosen on 9th Novemebr 2012, the school will be notified and the prizes will be on their way! The calendar will be printed on 16th Novemebr 2012 and will be sent to all participating schools in early December 2012 - just in time for the New Year!
Prizes
As usual there are fantastic prizes on offer in our Calendar Competition! For the 2011 competition the winning image was printed on the calendar, first prize included £30 worth of Ethical Superstore vouchers for the lucky winner and £100 worth of garden vouchers for their school!
To recognise the high standard of entries we will also gave prizes to second and third places. The prizes comprised of £20 Ethical Superstore vouchers and £75 garden vouchers for second place and £10 Ethical Superstore vouchers and £50 garden vouchers for third place.
Resources
As a part of our competition Shanks Cumbria are commited to spreading the reduce reuse recycle massage in Cumbria. To help the schools we have prepared lesson plans and ideas for activities that will not only help children understand the problems with waste but will also bring out their creative sides! Throughout the year we will be adding more useful resources to our website so keep checking!
Lesson plan 1 - Introducing the 3 Rs (download)
Lesson plan 2 - What happens to waste (download)
Childrens activities -The Big Bin Game, Drama activity
If you would like to know more about what happes to all waste that we collect at the Household Waste Recycling Centres the What happens to your recycling leaflet provides some useful information.
Useful links
Recycle Now - Primary School Resources
Additional information
Please click here for competition Terms & Conditions