Yesterday, one of our pupil's visited the Mayor of Gateshead as a result of winning the Gateshead 'Design a Christmas Card' competition for schools.

From all the entries, across Gateshead, Courtney's reindeer design stood out for the judges. Her design has now been made into a real card which is being used by lots of Gateshead workers. What was particularly impressive was that Courtney designed her card completely independently: she did not have any help from her teachers.

Mr Malik and Miss Foster went along with Courtney and her parents and had tea with the Mayor in his office at Gateshead Civic Centre. The Mayor presented Courtney with some special prizes which included toy "Metro Gnomes" which Courtney was over the moon about.

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