Congratulations to Owen Richards of St Mary’s RC Primary School who has won this year’s Green Pencil Award with his poem ‘ The city is wild’.
Owen impressed the judges with the power of his writing on this year’s theme, Nature on your Doorstep, and on Friday evening he was presented by Cllr Deidre Brock with the Green Pencil trophy and a range of sponsored prizes for himself and his class in the Central Library’s Reference Library.
With such a fantastic range of entries the judges had a very difficult task on their hands and they also awarded Highly Commended prizes for their very imaginative pieces to Anna Aitken of South Morningside Primary School for ‘Species in their millions‘ and to Louis Polson of Towerbank Primary School for ‘My squirrel‘. Here they are with Owen:
Congratulations to Owen, Anna and Louis and to all the talented young green writers – keep writing, keep reading and keep looking after the Nature on your Doorstep!
In the words of one of our bestselling local authors Vivian French – “Spoken words fly away like bubbles, but written words can change the world”
Organised by Edinburgh Libraries and Eco-Schools in Edinburgh, this creative writing competition is in its third year.
Overall winner
Owen Richards, St Mary’s RC Primary School: The City is Wild
Highly commended
Anna Aitken, South Morningside Primary School: Species in their millions
Louis Polson, Towerbank Primary School: My squirrel
Green Pencil Award 2010 – Winners list
Primary 4/5
Sofia Adams-Nisbet, Craiglockhart Primary School: Nature on our doorstep
Magnus Carswell, St Mary’s RC Primary School: A drive at night
Susanna Davis, St Mary’s Music School: Untitled
Alex Le Morvan, St Margaret’s RC Primary School: On my doorstep
Tsunami Lund, Home educated: Ladybird
Douglass Lyall, Towerbank Primary School: My field
Louis Polson, Towerbank Primary School: My squirrel
Owen Richards, St Mary’s RC Primary School: The City is Wild
Mahira Sattar, Leith Primary School: Looking at nature
Olivia Surgeon, Towerbank Primary School: Untitled
Primary 6/7
Anna Aitken, South Morningside Primary School: Species in their millions
Jenni Baillie, Currie Primary School: Fox
Aimee Combe Parsons, Green Primary School: Nature on my doorstep
Tia Davies, Towerbank Primary School: Spider Kenning Poem
Anya Foxworthy-Bowers, South Morningside Primary School: Untitled
Daniel Joffe, East Craigs Primary School: The Balance of Nature
Rachel Lawson, Parsons Green Primary School: The wild strawberry
Ben Macleod, Cargilfield School: Walking into Autumn
Nasra Masoud, Juniper Green Primary School: Our World
Glenn J Mitchell, St Cuthbert’s RC Primary: Nature on my doorstep
All pictures courtesy of Graham Bell. You can see more photos from the event on Flickr.
Tales of One City 
