Youngster scoops regional prize in daffodil competition

Jordan from Abbots Green Primary School in Bury St Edmunds has beaten off stiff competition from across Anglia to be selected as the regional winner in Persimmon Homes’ inaugural Daffodil Pictures and Poems competition. Pupils from across the UK took part in the competition in which they were invited to submit pictures and poems of the spring flower.

Eight year old Jordan’s picture will now be immortalised alongside those of other regional winners in order to create Persimmon’s 2008 calendar, which will be distributed nationwide. Jordan will also receive art equipment/supplies to the value of £500 for her school plus a cinema tickets for the family.

Jordan’s winning picture was selected by Jon Gibbs, sales director for Persimmon Homes Anglia who comments: “We were absolutely delighted with the talent displayed in the many entries we received for the competition and selecting the regional winner was no easy task. Jordan’s entry was eventually chosen as it displayed genuine creative fair and we are very much looking forward to seeing it reproduced in the official calendar.

“The Daffodil Pictures and Poems competition is an excellent way to mark our ongoing partnership with Marie Curie Cancer Care, which has been our nominated charity for the past two years. By creating the calendar, we hope to raise awareness of the charity and its emblem, the daffodil, while also working closely within the communities we build.”