Junior Wonders: Design your dream classroom and win £100

As the government announces all pupils in England will return to school on March 8 we are inviting youngsters to show us what their dream classroom would look like.

The best artworks will win a £100 gift voucher from art materials supplier Cowling & Wilcox. The deadline for Building Design’s next Junior Wonders art competition is Tuesday March 2 and this week’s judge is Jane Duncan, former president of the RIBA.

Simply draw or paint - or make - your ideal classroom and in a few words tell us why. It can be as fun or innovative as you like.

We have created two categories, the first for children aged 5-8 and the second for those aged 8-11. The contest is open to our international readers as well as those in the UK.

We were thrilled by the imagination that went into last week’s entries on the themes of castles.

RIBA president Alan Jones drafted in two other judges to help him pick the winners, both student representatives on the institute’s ruling council: Maryam Al-Irhayim and Victoria Adegoke. Thanks very much to them. We know it was a tough decision and they used a professional scoring system.

We reveal the winners and runners-up below. But first…

How to enter this week’s competition:

Once your child has finished their drawing or painting, please click on the link below and log in with the email address of the parent/guardian (must be over the age of 18, as we will use these details to contact you about the child’s submission).

> Click here to upload your drawings

Once you are logged in, fill in the information fields on the online form and click on this week’s category of ‘classrooms’.

You’ll be asked to include:

• your child’s full name
• their age and date of birth
• a name for their classroom
• a short explanation – in their own words – of why this would be their dream classroom (no more than 100 words!). Please include this text in the online form, but you can additionally send in an image of your child’s hand-written explanation as an additional photo upload.

Then click on the upload button on the bottom of the form and attach a photograph that you have taken of your child’s drawing. Please name the image file clearly with your child’s name and the building they picked.  

All drawings of castles should be uploaded by 5pm on Tuesday, March 2.

So get drawing, and good luck!

Castles: winners and runners-up

5 – 8 competition:

Winner:

Harrison Garside, age 7, for Harrison’s Hever

High commendations x2:

Benjamin Donoghue Corbett, age 7, for Battle Castle

Fenwick Partridge-Brown, age 6, for Fun Fair Castle

8 – 11 competition:

Winner

Rebecca Potter, age 11, for Castle of Hope

High commendation

Luca Hernandez-Deceapog, age 11, for Sky Castle

Chairman of the jury Alan Jones said: ”When Building Design asked me to judge I immediately invited the RIBA Council student representatives to become involved – and Victoria Adegoke and Maryam Al-Irhayim were able to take up the offer. On behalf of all three judges we wish to convey our pleasure in judging, to see such high levels of creativity and imagination across the submissions, the techniques used and ideas of what a castle could be were so varied. All were very impressive and we are excited by the potential shown for all the budding designers to come. We judged anonymously, we didn’t know who you were, or where you were from - congratulations to everyone!”