Published: Thursday, 2nd October, 2008 01:00
A crafty way of advertising community day
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The winning advert for the family fun day, designed by prospect School pupil Amy da Silva
A NEW family fun day will be getting a publicity boost after school pupils designed their own newspaper adverts.
The community day has been jointly organised by Southcote Children’s Centre and Prospect School, as part of its community work as a specialist sport and ICT college.
Year 10 creative and media diploma student Amy da Silva, 14, designed the winning advert and said: “I was really shocked to find out I won because all the entries were so good.
“I enjoyed drafting lots of different ideas and then developing the draft that I thought worked the best. When I am older I would like to have a career in design or advertising.”
School spokeswoman Louisa John said: “All of the entries were of a very high standard, however, Amy’s design stood out because she reversed the ad to make it white out of black, and it contains interesting graphics, typography and creative use of pictures. Her design also fulfilled all our criteria in the design brief.”
The fun day will be 11am-2pm on Saturday, October 11, at Southcote Children’s Centre, in Coronation Square. Prospect students will be running some of the free activities, which include a penalty shoot out, obstacle courses, a climbing wall, Indian head massage and face painting.
There will also be a chance to try kick-boxing, children’s yoga, dancing and IT workshops. A steel band will be playing and there will be refreshments.
Mrs John said: “This will also be a consultation exercise for us to find out what services our local community wants – this could be advice on positive parenting, giving up smoking, first aid courses, aerobics classes, self-defence for women, community events, holiday play sessions or ICT courses.
“We appreciate all feedback and will endeavour to offer services that the local community wants.”
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