Pupils take part in mask designing competition
More than 100 second year pupils at a Perth and Kinross school are taking part in an art competition to design face masks for fellow pupils.
The designs must be based on one of Kinross High School’s four values: ambitious, resilient, responsible and compassionate.
Run in conjunction with local social enterprise Parable Pod Counselling, the competition is aimed at helping youngsters feel more comfortable about wearing face coverings in the school environment.
A panel of judges including Ochil and Perthshire South MP John Nicolson will select the winning four designs, with each masterpiece printed on to masks for distribution in the school.
Parable Pod owner Annie Scrimgeour will cover the costs of having the designs printed on to over 100 masks and will then gift them to the school to be used by staff and pupils.
Annie said: “Fitting things together in our heads at the moment with changing rules over COVID-19 can be tricky, especially for young people faced with the new challenge of having different rules to follow both inside and outside of school, including the need to wear a face covering.
“Parable Pod Counselling likes to help people‘fit things together’both in their head space and also in their heart space, and because of this decided that it was a good time to help young people‘fit things together’in their changing environments in a creative way.”
The school’s art department is currently using the design competition as part of its timetable ahead of the October holidays, and Annie added:“I’d like to thank the school for their co-operation with this project.
“Creativity belongs to all of us. If we, the community, can‘fit things together’and work together for the good of our head space and heart space, just like the staff and pupils at Kinross High School and Parable Pod Counselling, together we can face new challenges with ambition and resilience while showing respect and compassion for others.”
Also on the judging panel is local artist Lynn Bartlett, Nicola Elliot-Clark, co-owner of ‘The Barn’salon in Kinross, and Annie McCormack, chairperson of the town’s‘Broke not Broken’Food Bank.
A gallery of 30 shortlisted designs will appear in a gallery on the Parable Pod Counselling website https:// parablepodcounselling. wordpress.com/ art-design-gallery/ with the winners announced soon afterwards.
Contact Annie Scrimgeour, owner of Parable Pod Counselling, by email parablepod@ gmail.com to help get even more masks made.