Chapman helps select winners of children's art competition
Celebrity judging panel selects winners for the Daycare Trust’s annual National Childcare Week children’s art competition, sponsored by the Children’s Mutual.
The judging panel included Keith Chapman, creator of Fifi and the Flowertots and Bob The Builder and co-creator of Roary the Racing Car, Five’s Milkshake! presenter, Naomi Wilkinson and CBBC Newsround Presenter, Sonali Shah.
National Childcare Week, organised by the national childcare charity Daycare Trust, is taking 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, primary school students and juniors.
Keith Chapman commented: “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.”
In addition to fantastic prizes 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 at No. 10 Downing Street in 2008.
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