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Famous fashion footsteps
ART Award winner
Archie Wallis, aged 10, of Saint Felix School, Southwold has won fi rst place in the top category (Year 6) at the Young Art East Anglia competition with his contribution to a class project inspired by Karen Stamper. Hamish Collen in Year 2 took third prize in his category and fi ve other pupils from Saint Felix were “highly commended” for their amazing artwork.
With the recent accolade surrounding former independent girls’ school pupil, Sarah Burton, who designed the ravishingly pretty wedding dress for Catherine Middleton, the new Duchess of Cambridge, it is promising to see that others are following in her footsteps. Sarah Burton was a pupil of Withington Girls’ School in Manchester, before graduating to the famous Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. In 2010, she won acclaim from the fashion world after producing her fi rst collection without Alexander McQueen at Fashion Week and now her name is written into the history books, a path which, no doubt, Alice Wedge hopes to follow. T e former Leweston School pupil won Escada’s Drawing Fashion Competition, triumphing over students from design schools across the UK and Ireland with her sketch of an evening gown. T e prize is a six-month placement with designers at Escada’s HQ in Munich. And helping Alice follow in the footsteps of the famous, is her father, James Wedge, whose hats featured in Vogue magazine. A Royal designer in the making?
Ancient adventure
GCSE art students from Alderley Edge School for Girls, Cheshire, have won a fantastic opportunity to visit Tutankhamen’s Tomb in Egypt. Organisers of the
exhibition Tutankhamen – His Tomb and His Treasures at the Museum of Museums in Event City, Manchester, invited young people age 12-16 to create their own “Pharaoh publication”. Alderley Edge girls were chosen for their
design “The Khamunian” and will participate in an eight day fi eld trip to Luxor’s Valley of the Kings, in Egypt.
6 FirstEleven Summer 2011
Politics
Heading to No 10 Twelve politics students from Bedford Modern School got privileged access to Downing Street and met local MP Nadine Dorries in the new Portcullis House, opened in 2001, to provide extra offi ces for MPs. T ey asked her questions on both national and political issues, as well as on her work as an MP and then watched MPs debate healthcare reform from the VIP gallery in the House of Commons. T ey later attended a Hansard Society debate called Democracy versus Young People, with a panel including, T e Rt Hon David Blunkett, MP, in the Grand Committee Room in Parliament.
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