Palgrave Primary School pupils crowned regional winners of NHS competition
A pair of Year 6 pupils are celebrating after being crowned regional winners of a national competition.
Penelope Dakin and Ella Harber, who both attend Palgrave Primary School, wrote and decorated a poem for the Step into the NHS competition, which was set up to promote the different roles available within the organisation and the diversity within it.
The pair’s work took the South East regional crown and became one of 10 winners across the country – selected from 80 schools and nearly 2,000 entries – to go to the national finals.
The girls’ teacher, Julie Cook, said: “Being regional winners is absolutely fantastic. I am so proud of the girls and their poem really does sum up the NHS and what it is trying to promote with the competition.”
Although they did not win the national finals, Mrs Cook said it was a great way for them, and the other pupils in the class, to finish their time at The Green school.
“The regional win was for all the Year 6 pupils,” she said. “For them to be able to take that away with them as one of their last memories of this school is fantastic.
“Personally, I am just so very proud of the whole class and with everyone that took part. It just shows how wonderful they have all been for me this year.”