Ten-year-old Florence Potkins from Drayton Park Primary School is enjoying her new iPod Touch, after winning a competition organised by Islington Council’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) team.
A competition was launched asking school children in Islington to describe an image of what their school could be like in five years time. Florence came up trumps with her creative suggestions for Drayton Park.
Florence’s vision gave the impression of an environmentally friendly school with excellent and innovative learning facilities and an inspiring play area. Her best suggestions included:
· School allotments
· Solar panels to power lights, a potters wheel and kiln in a roof-top art block
· A theatre with dressing rooms
· Wind turbines
· A colourful playground decorated by the school’s pupils
· A firm but fair head leading a school where children would not behave too boisterously
Islington Council’s Executive Member for Children and Young People, Councillor Paula Belford said:
“Congratulations to Florence. Her vision of Drayton Park sounds like the sort of school that a lot of pupils would like to attend. Many of her suggestions such as the environmentally- friendly features are things we are already putting into place in a lot of Islington’s schools.”
The competition was run through the Islington BSF newsletter and was open to pupils in their final year of primary school and secondary school students.
Islington Council’s BSF team are rebuilding and refurbishing all the borough’s secondary schools with over £140million of investment.
ENDS.
Page Last Updated: 12 June 2009