Fiona
Bruce MP congratulates Quinta Primary School on their national flag design
success
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| . Photograph shows Fiona Bruce MP flag designers Max Rigby and Kelly Bowyer and Headteacher Tracey Walklate. |
After
a suggestion by Fiona Bruce MP, Quinta Primary School entered Parliament’s Flag
2015 competition for 7-11 year old pupils to design a flag representing their
local community that would be on display in Parliament Square, London, opposite
the Houses of Parliament and at Runnymede, the location of the signing of the
Magna Carta exactly 800 years ago.
Beating off
stiff competition, Quinta are one of around 80 successful schools across the
county whose flag design is
being sewn as one of the ‘Historic County Flags’ to represent Cheshire. It shows
Congleton’s Beartown logo, a bear’s paw in a heart shape, representing the
little town with a big heart, this is set within a stylised wheatsheaf
representing Cheshire, against a backdrop in the shape of The Cloud, the hill
behind Congleton.
After visiting the school to
congratulate them, Fiona Bruce said
“I am so pleased that Quinta’s design has
been selected to represent Cheshire. This is such a historic commemoration and
I am proud such a fine school in my Constituency has been chosen to represent the
county as a whole.”
Tracey Walklate, Headteacher at Quinta
said “The children designed a super flag that
represented not only our home town of Congleton but by including the wheat
sheaf encompassed the whole of Cheshire. As a school we are proud that our flag
was chosen to represent Cheshire and offer our thanks to Fiona Bruce MP for
asking to enter a design.”
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NOTE TO EDITOR
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2.
A
selection of the first phase of flags submitted for this project have been
chosen to represent the Historic Counties of the UK. These flags will be sewn
to fly at two special 2015 events; in Parliament Square this spring and again
at Runnymede on 15 June 2015.
The
Runnymede event celebrates another special 2015 anniversary, 800 years since
the sealing of Magna Carta, and is entitled Magna Carta Foundation of Liberty.
The event is managed by 2015 project partners, the National Trust and Surrey
County Council.
