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THE MONTGOMERYSHIRE SOCIETY

ANNUAL SCHOOLS’ COMPETITION 2024-2025

WORK OF ART- 2D or 3D in a non-digital medium eg painting/ drawing/ collage/ textile on one of the following themes:

* Market day

* Climate change

* A Welsh tradition or festival

* A scene inspired by a dream or a nightmare

* A mythical or imaginary animal

* Own choice

Please note that entries using the medium of photography may not be entered.

GROUPS

For the purpose of adjudication, the competition will be organised in three groups:

Group A: Years 7 & 8

Group B: Years 9 &10

Group C: Years 11-13

PRIZE MONEY

First prize: all groups £80

Second prize: all groups £40

The closing date for the submission of entries will be Friday 28th February 2025 To Miss Atkin

HAFREN GRAFFITTI COMPETITION 2025

Christmas Card Competition 2024

Congratulations to Maja Fornal in year 9 who is the winner of this year’s Christmas Card Competition. Maja designed a beautiful card using watercolours, that incorporated the school logo and the four school houses, Efyrnwy, Powys, Hafren and Idris. Her design was chosen as the over all winner from over 200 entries across key stage 3 and will be professionally printed as the official Christmas card for Welshpool high school 2024. Maja will receive 50 house points and her own set of cards to send out to family and friends. 
Other short listed entries were Dexter Schofield, Evie Langford, Samanta Spurava, Fabien Francis Borie, Eleanor Mainwaring, Olivia Gregorzewska, Daisy Swift, Carter Thomas, Oscar Atkinson, Sophia Karaffova, Iwan Bennett Wilson and Leah Davies. Each will receive 20 house points. 

Sixth Form Community Art Project

Our sixth form students had an amazing opportunity to work with the team at Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust to help create their new mural. Working with Mark, Jo and Val they learnt how to use spray paints to paint up their large scale artwork based on local wildlife and organisms.
“The trip we took to the Montgomeryshire Wildlife trust was fantastic, and being able to explore a new medium like spray paints was an invaluable experience. The staff were very welcoming and super helpful when explaining what we needed to do. I think all of the spray paint pieces have helped to brighten up the area and to be able to contribute to it was great. I would love to do something like this again if we had the opportunity.”
Abi Smith Yr13
The students who took part were, Nancy Clapton, Kai Hopkinson, Jadon Magness, Caitlin Jones, Cerys Griffiths, Abi Smith, Shean Rono, Megan White and Dominik Topolski from year 13 and Dylan Bartley, Lena Grzegorzewska, Izzy Jones, Lilly Jones, Rob Jones, Emily Martin, Holly Owen and Hope Williams from year 12.
You can see their artwork on display at the centre at Severn Farm Ponds.

Community Art Project

In collaboration with Arts Connection Powys, local artists Linda Jane James and Paul Butler have been back in school to work with the boys to complete their community art project. Working in small groups the boys have been painting up their final designs on large scale boards. We are looking forward to see their artwork on display somewhere in the town.