RUTH BAYLEY ILLUSTRATION COMPETITION

The Ruth Bayley Illustration Competition was set up in memory of WGS alumna Ruth Bayley, a successful illustrator of many children’s books. Each year, Withington pupils are set a theme which this year was ‘labels’. Illustrator and comic maker, Emmeline Pidgen, was our guest judge and choose the overall winners from the shortlist selected by the Art Department. Well done to all those who entered the competition - there was a real variety of interpretation of this theme and demonstrable skill and creativity.

We are very grateful to the executors of Ruth Bayley’s will who continue to generously support this competition.

The children benefited from exciting programmes delivered by specialist Senior School Teachers, supported by Sixth Form volunteers who gave their time to help run these courses. Our Partnerships Award was given to the following pupils based on how many sessions they helped at:

1: Beatrice Richards 7Y

HIGHLY COMMENDED

2: Ava Lin 7W

3: Eilidh Milner 9X

4: Manal Nasir 11W

5: Bella Smart 12Y