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Take part in Recycle for Gloucestershire Schools' Creative Olympic Challenge

To take part:
- Register your interest by emailing the name of your school and your contact details to hannah.gray@gloucestershire.gov.uk by Friday 9th March 2012.

• - Recycle for Gloucestershire will send you one ready-made A1-sized fabric flag for your pupils to embellish.

Flags should be:
1.) on the theme of the Olympics (you are free to interpret this in any way you choose)

2.) Be decorated with reused (scrap) materials. This could be one or a combination of the following – paper, fabric, plastic, foil with the addition of pens/paint. Decorations can be glued, stapled or sewn on as long as they are firmly attached (especially if they are to be sent through the schools post!) Flags can be decorated by an individual, small group, class or the whole school. Sorry – we can only take 1 entry per school.

• Closing date for completed entries is Friday 23rd March.

We will award our 3 favourite flags gold, silver and bronze ‘Reuse Challenge Cups’ which will be specially created from reused materials!

All flags will be displayed in the Shire Hall reception in Gloucester from 2nd April to 13th April (Mondays – Fridays) and the public are welcome to come and view them during opening hours (9am - 4pm). The flags will then move on to a new location at The Brunel Goodshed in Stroud on Saturday 28th April.

We have our very own Olympic site in the South West! Weymouth will be hosting sailing and windsurfing events. Many creative activities are already planned throughout the region including the building of a giant wind machine.  Please see www.battleforthewinds.com for more information about this and other creative events happening locally. Our flags will be displayed at Stroud Brunel Goods Shed on 28th April 2012 at the unveiling of Gloucestershire’s wind machine’ (to be constructed by Stroud College Art School).

John Tucker from Dursley designed the sculpture. The wind will whistle through the tuned pipes (John is a percussionist) and 49 Youth Theatre members are going to play it! 

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Gloucestershire Resource Centre (‘the scrapstore’) who kindly supplied the flag material. Why not make use of the scrapstore, which is based in Gloucester, and also has a mobile van. This is a treasure trove of wonderful materials that have been saved from landfill. Take a look! www.grcltd.org/scrapstore

06 February 2012