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Junior Citizen artwork competition winner announced

Children and staff from Stanwell Fields Primary School in Stanwell have picked up a cheque for £100, after one of their pupils won the Junior Citizen artwork competition.

Each pupil in Spelthorne had the chance to enter the competition, to produce a piece of artwork which will be used as the front cover for this year's Junior Citizen handbook.

There were over 300 entries to the competition. The standard was fantastic but unfortunately there could only be one winner. 

The Spelthorne Youth Intervention Team narrowed the entries down to a short-list of ten.Changel Biju was then selected as the overall winner by Neighbourhood Inspector Derrick Laing.

Changel won an art-related prize for herself and £100 for her school, Stanwell Fields Primary School, Stanwell. 

The runners-up also received art-related prizes including a pallet, pencils and paints, as well as other Surrey Police goodies.

The cabinet member for Community Safety and Young people, Councillor Penny Forbes-Forsyth,said: "Congratulations to Changel for producing the winning design. It is bright and eye-catching, and captures so many of the topics covered during the Junior Citizen event."

Around 1,000 Year Six children from 20 schools across Spelthorne are due to take part in the Junior Citizen event, which will be held in September 2012.  Junior Citizen is a joint initiative between Spelthorne Council, Surrey Police, Surrey County Council, Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, The Dogs Trust and British Airways.

The youngsters will attend different workshops at British Airways Learning Centre in Heathrow,where they will learn how to behave and stay safe on the roads and railways,and 'stranger danger'. Other workshops teach fire safety, water safety, first aid and how to make an emergency 999 call.

Youth Intervention Officer PC Caroline Barnes said: "Junior Citizen is an excellent scheme where children are given the opportunity to take part in a number of different scenarios such as road safety, stranger danger and Internet safety.It is also a great way for the Safer Neighbourhood Team to engage with the children, encouraging them to feel confident enough to report incidents to the police."

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