THREE artists, all under the age of 10, have been chosen as the winners of the Welsh Dairy Show’s ‘Story of Milk’ art competition for their informative and colourful illustrations of how milk travels from the farm to the fridge.
The Welsh Dairy Show recently teamed up with the Carmarthenshire Cheese Company, Elanco, Mole Valley Farmers and Totally Welsh to call on school pupils from across South-West Wales to enter the art competition to help raise the profile of milk and the dairy industry ahead of the event on Tuesday, October 25.
Alys Cumming, aged eight, from Llangadog Primary School in Carmarthenshire; Megan Davies, aged eight, from Cwrtnewydd Primary School in Ceredigion and Ellis Phillips, aged nine, from Templeton Primary School in Narberth, Pembrokeshire were all winners. Each won tickets for their family to visit the Welsh Dairy Show on Tuesday, October 25, £75 for their school and a trip for the winner’s class to visit a local cheese or milk factory.
Hundreds of students of all ages from across South-West Wales entered the competition. The prize winning drawings are now being used as the front cover image on the Show Catalogue, a poster and to promote the forthcoming Show on the internet.
Mair James, Organiser of the Welsh Dairy Show, said: “Thank you to all the school pupils for your fantastic drawings. We will put every entry on display at the Welsh Dairy Show for visitors to see your amazing efforts. I would also like to thank teachers for taking the time to discuss the value of milk whilst encouraging your students to enter the competition.
“This year’s Welsh Dairy Show has been organised to coincide with half term as I want to encourage younger visitors to attend the event, where they will have the opportunity to learn more about the importance of milk and how it is turned into other products such as cheese and ice-cream. It will be free for under 15s to attend the Show.”
The children’s area in the Welsh Dairy Show will be run by Cows on Tour and the Carmarthenshire Cheese Company and will feature cows that the children can milk, demonstrations on how cheese is made and an opportunity for the children to make butter.
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