Gorsedh Kernow is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s awards. The judges were delighted with the quality and sense of pride in Cornwall, its landscape, history, culture and people in this year’s submissions. In particular they were delighted to receive an increased number of school submissions in particular from Madron, Mousehole, Trewirgie, Crowan, Luxulyan, Treloweth and Cusgarne primaries and Fowey Academy as well as music ensembles led by Cornwall Music Service Trust.
“It is always a pleasure to see how passionate young people are about Cornwall and its culture which they express with confidence and joy through music, language and art. Bryntin!” Pol Hodge, Grand Bard
The winners will join the adult award ceremony in Padstow on September 1st. The winners are:
Yeth Kernewek – Cornish Language
KS1 – under 7
1st Prize Whole Class Trewirgie Nursery and Infants: Cornish Phrase Book and Recordings
1st Prize Individual Alana Tovey and Evie Shorten, Treloweth School: The Orangutan that Lost its Home
Joint Second Prize Eloisa Naylor Trewirgie Infant School: Illustrated Cornish Phrase Book
Lexi Pascoe Trewirgie Infant School: An Illustrated Cornish Phrase Book of her favourite words
KS2 – 8-11
First Prize Noor and Ula Tresidder Tonkin: Tales from an Argos – 3 illustrated stories
Commended Noor and Ula Tresidder Tonkin ‘Yth eson ni ow mos dhe Helgh Ors’ – ‘We’re all going on a Bear Hunt’, Michael Rosen. Film in Kernewek
Ilow Kernewek Cornish Music
KS1
1st Prize Ash Class, Luxulyan School: Mitten Da
KS2
1st Prize Schooner Class, Mousehole School: Hard Rock Cornish Miner with percussion
2nd Prize Madron School: Fatla Genes
Commended Crowan School: A Pen Bloth Lowen
Lugger Class, Mousehole School: Gorthugher Da
Playwest: St Piran’s Furry
Jemima Barnard, Cusgarne School: Cornwall My Home on the piano
KS3 12-18
1st Prize Cornwall Youth Chamber Choir: Hungan
Film
KS2
1st Prize Madron School: The Giant who Stole Christmas
Studhyens
KS1
First Prize Emmy Joyce, Cusgarne School: A Study of Choughs
KS2
1st Prize Merryn Joyce, Cusgarne School: A Study of Carn Marth
1st Prize creative writing Marissa Barnard, Cusgarne School: Marissa’s Cornwall
Art
KS1
1st Prize Beech Class, Luxulyan: Why I Love Cornwall
KS2
1st Prize Art and Design Lara Moores, Luxulyan School: Nans Husys Game – a board game for Picrous Day set in Luxulyan
1st Prize Art Isla Topps, Cusgarne School: Wheal drawn with Bamboo quill and liquid gall oak ink
Commended Oak Class, Luxulyan School: Drawings of Treffry Viaduct
Anwen Knights: Wheal Coates Mine – a watercolour
KS3
1st Prize Ebony Doney, Lily Love, Poppy Gill, Mae Pearce, Charley Stockley Fowey River Academy: Lostwithiel Wall murals