Kingsbury Primary School in quilt-edged award
Year 5 and 6 pupils at Kingsbury Primary School have won a prize at the International Festival of Quilts at the NEC for the second successive year.
77 children from the school took part in the competition to create a stitched quilt representing a ‘Cityscape’ winning them second prize and earning the school a new sewing machine.
The school’s entry was co-ordinated by the cluster co-ordinator for Kingsbury, working with the county council’s Extended Services team.
Year 6 pupils visited Birmingham City Centre and took photographs of some of the sights. The photographs were then transferred onto fabric and decorated with stitching. Year 5 created some lettering and border panels, spelling the words ‘Birmingham’ and ‘urban heart’.
The individual pieces were then stitched together into a quilt and hung in the school. Next spring, it will be loaned to Birmingham Library’s Centre for the Child to hang alongside the school’s 2009 prize-winning entry.
Mary Halbert runs the after school quilting club at Kingsbury School. She said: ‘The completed wall-hanging is our very own tribute to our local city of Birmingham,’ explained the teacher behind the project, Mrs Mary Halbert. ‘It was so exciting to win a prize for the second year in succession.’
Portfolio holder for children, young people and families, Cllr Heather Timms, said: “This is another of the projects that the Extended Services Team has instigated which encourages local pride in young people.
"It is not just working on the quilt that is important; by making a tribute to their area, the young people will be proud of where they live. Projects such as this lay excellent foundations for promoting community cohesion.”