some of the Prizewinners with the Carnival Queen and her Princesses, with Chairman John Sowton on the left and Sponsor John Chaston on the right of the picture

Once again, we had a wonderful response to our invitation to local schools and youth groups to take part in the poster competition – 457 posters were submitted.

Five schools and eight youth groups – Rainbows, Brownies and Guides – took part.

John Chaston, who generously sponsored the competition and was a judge along with Caryl Berry, Debra Stewart and Mike Swanson.

This year, the theme of Carnival is ‘Carnival goes European’, and the posters included plenty of colourful pictures of European Flags, as well as showing the carnival events.

Prizes and certificates were presented to the winners by the Carnival Queen and her Princesses at the Presentation Evening held in St James Church Hall, Clacton, on Wednesday 22^nd June, and the winning posters will be displayed upstairs in Clacton Library from the 1^st July for two weeks.

A further 13 merit certificates were also awarded.

Many thanks once again to all those who helped to make this year’s Poster Competition such a success, including Clacton Library for acting as a collection and display point for posters, our Sponsor and Judges for taking on such a challenging task, and last but not least the hard-working and enthusiastic schools and other youth organisations who took  part.

Prizewinners 2011

Infants

1^st     Amy Rose                  Cann Hall Primary

2^nd    Georgia Powell          Coppins Green Primary

3^rd     Jack Heyden              Cann Hall Primary

4^th     Daniel Mulryne           Burrsville Infant

JUNIORS

1^st     Ellie-Mae Young       Coppins Green Primary

2^nd    Zak Coates               Cann Hall Primary

3^rd    Megan Hazelwood    Cann Hall Primary

4^th    Chloe Chadwick        1^st Great Clacton Brownies

SENIORS

1^st    Chelsea Thomson      Cann Hall Primary

2^nd   Phoebe Nelson           6^th Clacton Guides

3^rd   Kayleigh Couldrey       3^rd Clacton Guides

4^th   (Lois Godfrey              Cann Hall Primary

       (Chloe Dench              3^rd Clacton Guides 

MERITS

INFANTS

Daniel Everest                        Holland Park

Aimee Daisley                         Burrsville infant

Kacey Haskins                         Cann hall

Emily Greenway                      Burrsville infant

Tayler-jean Lawrence               Burrsville infant

Daisy Mowle                             Burrsville infant

JUNIORS

Luke Corneloues                         Cann hall

Kiera Boyce                                 Cann hall

Bailey Prior                                  Cann hall

Kiera Partridge                             Cann hall

Serena Curtis                               Alton park

Elaina Jean Gilbert                       Cann hall

Paris Parker-North                      Coppins green