Pupils off to Gambia with great designs
S5 pupils at Campbeltown Grammar School (CGS) have designed a logo which is being proudly worn by those on the current CGS4Gambia trip.
As a part of a school enterprise project, and in conjunction with teacher Peter Lewis in the art and design department, pupils created a design which features on T-shirts.
The pupils involved in the design were Alecia Bell, Aleksandra Niedzwiedska, Hannah Ross, Lewis Spence and Arran McAllister.
CGS4Gambia was established in 2013, becoming a registered charity in 2014, with the aim of teaching the school’s senior students about global citizenship through volunteering in Gambia.
This trip was largely arranged and planned last year in 2019 as part in the 2019-20 academic year and therefore has ‘2019’ on the badge.
After the initial designs were collated, the image was processed with a variety of graphic programmes before being printed using the department’s new heat-press.
By selling 15 shirts to CGS staff and pupils who are on the trip, the school was able to fund an additional 17 shirts.
Help us
Lorna McKinven said: ‘We meet many people along the way who help us so it will be nice to hand out T-shirts to them.’
The pupils went to Gambia last Friday and will be there until Monday, February 17.
The shirts joined many other kind donations the school received for the journey.
This is now a bi-yearly event that has both broadened pupils’ horizons at home as well
as benefitted local schools and nurseries in Gambia.
After receiving a warm welcome, the current group
got straight to work painting walls with local children.