Celebrity Judging Panel Selects Winners of National Childcare Week Children’s Art Competition
A celebrity judging panel including creator of Fifi and the Flowertots and Bob The Builder, and co-creator of Roary the Racing Car, Keith Chapman, Five’s Milkshake! presenter, Naomi Wilkinson and CBBC Newsround Presenter, Sonali Shah, gathered in London today to select the competition winners for the Daycare Trust’s annual National Childcare Week Children’s Art Competition, sponsored by the Children’s Mutual.
National Childcare Week, organised by the national childcare charity Daycare Trust, will take place from 12th-19th July this year. The week’s theme, ‘Raising quality: reducing inequality’ will focus on how investment in early years has the biggest impact on childrens’ lives and helps every child fulfil their potential.
Reflecting this theme, Daycare Trust’s annual Children’s Art Competition is themed around children’s aspirations, with entrants being asked to demonstrate what they want to be, or hope to achieve, when they grow up. The three categories include: pre-schoolers aged 2-4 years, primary school students aged 5- 7 years and juniors aged 8 – 10 years old.
In addition to fantastic prizes which include a 3-4 night escape with Haven Holiday, vouchers and goodies for the winners and runners-up, the winners
will also be invited to a special winner’s ceremony in London during Childcare Week – which took place last year at No. 11 Downing Street, and in 2008, at No. 10 Downing Street.
Quotes:
Keith Chapman from Chapman Entertainment and creator of Bob The Builder,
Fifi and the Flowertots, and co-creator of Roary The Racing Car said:
“I am one of the lucky ones! When I was growing up, I wanted to be a cartoonist – I was always drawing and my persistence paid off. If I wasn’t doing
this, I think I would want to be an astronaut. Even as a small boy, my imagination would get carried away and I would climb under my parent’s sofa and
pretend that I was in a space craft.”
Alison Garnham, Chief Executive of Daycare Trust said:
“Daycare Trust is proud to launch our children’s competition as part of National Childcare Week, which falls at a particularly significant time this year, coming just weeks after the general election. We will be using National Childcare Week 2010 to ensure that the new government is committed to delivering the high-quality, affordable childcare which is so essential to giving all children the best start in life.”
Tony Anderson from The Children’s Mutual said:
ΜΆ 0;As specialists in family finance we recognise the many demands on parents' time and pockets, especially in the current climate. Affordable and good
quality childcare helps parents balance these demands. We are therefore delighted to support the Daycare Trust in raising awareness of the
importance of childcare issues by sponsoring the children’s art competition for the third year in succession.”
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