Nathan Page, a Primary 4 pupil from St Margaret’s RC Primary, who won the prize with his fantastic piece of writing The story of a snail. Here’s Nathan reading his imaginative, humorous and visual piece of writing at the awards ceremony held at Central Library.

There were over 1000 entries for this year’s eco-writing competition, on the theme of “Birds and Beasties”. Many young wordsmiths from across Edinburgh’s schools were commended for their entries.