GANDL inter-school drawing competition: update

A huge thank you to our five primary schools for all your efforts - all the drawings were great!
What a talented bunch of young people we have in our area.

Our panel of four judges had a very hard time deciding on the top three entries,
but on Sunday afternoon, after a lot of thinking - assisted by tea and cake - we made
our decision. In the end, after we'd looked at them all silently [and carefully tried to keep the entries
anonymous, by not looking at any names!],we realised that, independently, we were very much
in agreement, to our relief! 
Although we hadn't deliberately set out to have 3 different schools represented within
the winning entries, [we were judging on merit and on what we felt would work for our magazine cover]
when we realised that we had 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes for three of our schools,
we decided to add a prize each to the other two schools - the best entry for
that school, again based on what we felt met what we were looking for.
So we have also two runners-up as a result, who will each recieve a £5 Book Token.
An announcement will be made soon, once we've sent the magazine off to be printed.

Also, we liked all the drawings so much, that we've decided to do a big display of them
all in our Church Hall - and make a large photo of them together. We're just working out
how best to display them, and will let you all know when you can come and see them,
which will be some time in December.
Thanks again everyone - what a bunch of stars you are.