Chaucer House Scarecrow Competition

Date: Thursday 15 October 2009

To celebrate Chaucer House Day this year we decided to run a Scarecrow Competition. Children were invited to bring scarecrows into school to gain points for their houses. There were 3 categories to be judged; 1) Painting or Drawing, 2) Family Scarecrow, made with adult help and 3) All My own work, scarecrows made by the children alone.

The competition was a great success with over 30 entries in the 2-dimensional class and about the same again in the other two classes. About 20 were life size entries and these graced the Lower School corridors for two weeks until judging took place on Friday 9th October.

The prize-winners were as follows:

Painting/Drawing Competition

1st Junha Huang Form 8

2nd Emily Collard Form 3

3rd Beth Ling Form 3

4th Yasmina C-H Form 3

Family Scarecrows, made with adult help

1st Alice Mount with Discrow Queen Form 4

2nd Helena Featherstone with Mr MacGregor Form 3

3rd Mirabel Maude with Harriet Hop Picker Form 5

=4th Timon Staehler with Switzy Form 3

Matty and James Nordin with Geordie Boy Forms 4 and 5

Eleanor Booton with the ferocious looking Gardening Granny Form 8

All My Own Work Category

1st Sebastian K-W with Flowerpot Man 80 Form 6

2nd Jess Farmer with Fred the Farmer Form 7

3rd Joseph Ling with Chip Form 8

4th Sophie Hopkins with Clank Form 4

MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO TOOK PART. Making a scarecrow is much harder than it looks, but we all had fun and the scarecrows were MAGNIFICENT! Thank you too to Mrs Yearsley for devising and driving the competition.