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High Arctic competition finalists and winners

Thank you to everyone who entered our High Arctic competition. There were some excellent entries, and six groups were shortlisted to attend our prize day on Monday 9 January. From these entries, our judges chose a winning group from each age category, as well as an overall winning group.

The Winners

Congratulations to all of our competition finalists. The prize day was a great success and it was fantastic to find out more about the pieces of art and the people behind them. Here are the four winning groups:

Overall winner: Gosforth East Middle School group 1 (KS3)

Congratulations to Gosforth East Middle School from Newcastle who won our overall prize of a day of scientific research at sea with Dr Simon Boxhall from the National Oceanography Centre.

High Arctic competition finalist - Gosforth East Middle School group 1

“Our idea is a tap with a single drip of water coming out of it to show how precious our resources are and how we take water for granted. Underneath the tap is a food bowl full of mud and litter. It symbolises the importance of the earth to our food and how we must not destroy it.”

Key Stage 3 winners: Corelli College

High Arctic competition finalist - Corelli College

“We wanted to create work that was influenced by the litter we saw. The work we created is designed to make people think about littering, and so we felt the best way to do this was to insert our images back into the places we found litter a few weeks before”.

Finalists: Gosforth East Middle School, group 2 (Key Stage 3)

High Arctic competition finalist - Gosforth East Middle School group 2

“The wall is a symbol of everything that man has made and the crack is a warning that things are going wrong.”

Key Stage 2 joint winners: 2nd South Cave Brownies


High Arctic competition finalist - 2nd South Cave Brownies

“Flooding is an issue that has directly affected our local community. The artwork is separated into four, but we designed it so that it could be put together in lots of different ways. We included a school, houses, shops, a church and a tree to reflect different parts of the community affected by the water.”

Key Stage 2 joint winners: Dormer House School


High Arctic competition finalist - Dormer House School

“Our artwork consists of famous London monuments but instead of being in a cityscape they are nearly under water. We wanted to show how everyone is different so we did some people enjoying themselves and others hating it.”

Finalists: Airedale Academy (Key Stage 3)

High Arctic competition finalist - Airedale Academy

“Our idea was to show that most of the snow is melting and the ice and ice caps are all cracking and flooding. We picked chalky pastels to do our picture as it would give us a shady effect and more texture and detail”.

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