{"id":2835,"date":"2016-03-24T10:26:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T09:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2016-03-24T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T09:35:08","slug":"busby-primary-pupils-meet-john-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/2016\/03\/24\/busby-primary-pupils-meet-john-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"Busby primary pupils meet John Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Busby Primary pupil, has been named as one of four highly commended runners up in the John Byrne National Drawing Competition, beating thousands of other entries to be chosen.<\/p>\n

Kevin (P7) received the commendation on Friday 18th March from John, who unveiled the winners and runners up at a special exhibition of competition entries at Paisley Museum and Art Gallery to mark the end of the second year of the competition.<\/p>\n

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John revealed Kevin as one of the three highly commended runners up for their artwork, alongside our other finalists, Larisa (P7) and Jennifer (P5) who received a commendation from John for their artwork.<\/p>\n

John Byrne, said: \u201cI\u2019m really pleased to announce Kevin as one of the four highly commended runners up in this year\u2019s John Byrne National Drawing Competition and I\u2019d like to extend my congratulations to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe runners up were chosen thanks to their inspired use of colour and composition to make some eye-catching artwork that helped their entries stand out against the other competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe young people in our country never cease to amaze me with their artistic skills and extraordinary talent, and that has come through in this year\u2019s entries. The standard of work has been fantastic and I hope that the competition has inspired many of the young entrants to continue to enjoy art and draw more.<\/p>\n

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Bill Maxwell, Education Scotland Chief Executive said: \u201cI\u2019m really pleased to offer my congratulations to Kevin chosen as one of four highly commended runners up of this year\u2019s John Byrne National Drawing Competition. It\u2019s been another successful year after receiving thousands of competition entries from talented children and young people in schools across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe competition is a great opportunity for children and young people to tap into their creativity and unleash their artistic talents and showcase their work in front of one of Scotland\u2019s most talented and renowned artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miss Hunter\u00a0said how\u00a0proud she\u00a0is\u00a0of all our finalists and thanked all the pupils for their hard work.\u00a0 This shows how hard work and showing commitment can be rewarded.\u00a0 Well done!<\/p>\n

Kevin and the other finalist received a specially designed and signed certificate created by John, and their artwork, is on display at the museum as part of a special exhibition.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is free to enter and will be in Paisley until 17th April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Busby Primary pupil, has been named as one of four highly commended runners up in the John Byrne National Drawing Competition, beating thousands of other entries to be chosen. Kevin (P7) received the commendation on Friday 18th March from John, who unveiled the winners and runners up at a special exhibition of competition entries … Continue reading Busby primary pupils meet John Byrne<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Busby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}