A PUPIL at Ysgol Pen y Bryn in Colwyn Bay has won a national competition to design a banner as part of last week’s Road Safety Week organised by the charity ‘Brake’.

Isobel Robinson, aged nine, was one of just 12 winners chosen from hundreds of entries received from children across the UK who designed a road safety banner.

Each year, promotional products, badges and school uniform specialist Recognition Express invites primary school children aged four to 11 to create a design for a road safety banner based on the year’s Road Safety Week theme, which for 2021 was ‘Road Safety Heroes’.

Isobel received a personalised trophy along with a large-scale printed banner featuring her design to display outside Ysgol Pen y Bryn.

Recognition Express managing director Chris Masters said: “ I was really impressed by Isobel’s work.

“I had hoped that, by the time this year’s competition came round, things would be more back to normal after the lockdown and we would be able to go to the school to make the presentation, but sadly this wasn’t the case.

“Keeping everyone safe has to be a priority, so instead, I sent a personal letter of congratulations for Isobel, which the school kindly presented to her on my behalf along with the trophy and banner.

“Road Safety Week aims to inspire thousands of schools, organisations and communities to take action and promote road safety awareness during the week and beyond and it is a privilege to be involved.

“Our competition is a fantastic opportunity to engage primary school children and help establish good road safety sense for years to come.”

Since 1995, Brake has worked with communities across the UK to stop road deaths and injuries, make streets safer, and support people bereaved and seriously injured on roads.

For more information, visit: www.brake.org.uk.