A creative Lanarkshire pupil has beat off stiff competition from tens of thousands of kids from all across the UK to win a design competition for the charity Living Streets.
Mossneuk pupil James Lundy was named January's winning artist for his drawing of an endangered animal. James' effort will be turned into collectable badges for thousands of pupils nationwide to earn when they walk to school.
The delighted 11-year-old said: "I chose to draw an otter because it is one of my favourite animals and it is in danger.”
More than 90,000 primary school pupils nationwide entered the WOW Badge Design competition organised by Living Streets, the charity behind the national walk to school campaign, with nine young designers chosen as winners by a panel of experts from the Design Council.
This year’s badge competition theme was ‘Walk for the World’, with pupils asked to consider the contribution that traffic pollution makes to carbon emissions and to research and draw wildlife or a natural habitat affected by climate change.
Other winning designs include an orangutan, polar bear, toucan and an American Pika.
The winning designs will now be turned into more than 300,000 badges to be awarded to pupils taking part in WOW – the walk to school challenge from Living Streets.
WOW sees pupils who walk, cycle, scoot or Park and Stride to school at least once a week for a month rewarded with the recyclable badges.
The first of the winning designs was awarded in November 2021 to coincide with the start of COP26 in Glasgow.
This month Living Streets is delighted to be awarding another winner in Scotland. Stephen Edwards, Interim CEO, Living Streets said: “WOW is a great way to help keep children healthy and happy by encouraging them to be active every day. More children walking to school also means fewer cars around the school gates - making them safer and cleaner places.
“We hope this set of WOW badges will help pupils understand that by walking to school they are playing their part in fighting climate change - protecting wildlife and natural habitats for the future.”
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