School art competition – what does school mean to you?
We want to reflect their voices of children and young people in the work that we do around our Capital Delivery programme by understanding what’s important to them.
As part of this, an art competition is now open for all children attending Central Bedfordshire schools.
For a chance to win an educational and/or construction-related prize, pupils must use their creative talents to draw or paint a picture that reflects what education or school means to them.
Prizes include activities such as careers talks, site visits and shadowing for young adults and for younger children, construction activities including a ‘digger day’ and bug hotel session. The full prize list is below.
The competition will run from January 15, 2024, until February 9, 2024, with entries coordinated via each participating school. Read the competition entry details and terms and conditions.
The themes that emerge from this competition will help us better understand what’s important to children and young people and could help inform how we proceed with our Capital Delivery programme.
Prizes
Primary school children
Prizes include:
- planting/playground upgrading
- time capsule activity
- bug hotel activity
- spaghetti tower building activity
- printed design displayed on Central Bedfordshire Council site hoarding
- dissecting Barn Owl Pellet activity with Central Bedfordshire Council Environmental Sustainability Manager
- digger day – supervised short talks and demonstrations of a digger - Wates have a local site in Kempston which Central Bedfordshire Council may be able to offer site visits to, which is dependent on the stage of the project. Central Bedfordshire Council and it’s contractors may be able to offer site tours and possible demonstrations on how the equipment works subject to availability and health and safety
- voluntary work to make improvements to a playground, garden, wildlife area at a primary school
Secondary school children
Prizes include:
- digger day from age 12 years and upwards
- careers talk with question and answer from a job role e.g. Quantity Surveyor, Design Manager, Project Manager
- away day/onsite visit to Chiltern UTC to see a live project
- a full day of shadowing a site manager on Central Bedfordshire Council’s Kingsland Leisure Centre project in Houghton Regis
- provide a talk and plant demonstration
- VIP site tour with an approximate duration of 1 hour (site distance dependent)
- work placement on site (over 16’s only)
- digital construction demo with a 3D model on a computer
- local factory visits for a targeted group
Primary and secondary school children
We can also, dependant on time of year, lead-in time and internal resource availability provide a series of engagement activities. This could include:
- tree planting
- career carousel / mock interview workshops
- mini digger training/simulation
- activities organised by contractors supply-chain
SEND children
Prizes include:
- go through the ‘what construction workers do’ book which the contractors have in paper form which has fun activities to carry out. The contractors can also issue the hard copies as prizes
- present a presentation which identifies key roles which leads onto an interactive word search then a spaghetti tower challenge