By Isle of Wight Observer
Binstead Primary pupil, Teddy Hobbs, is the proud winner of Mountbatten IW’s Schools Walk medal design competition.
In assembly, on Friday, April 25, Mountbatten’s deputy CEO, Becky McGregor, presented Teddy with the first medal to feature his design.
“I wanted to make a medal all about Mountbatten and what they actually do,” Teddy explained.
“My design is the Isle of Wight, with The Needles on one side and an aeroplane on the other. I was thinking about the colours and where to place every detail.”
Teddy was very surprised to find his design had won; beating hundreds of entries and a final shortlist of around ten.
Around 1,000 medals will be created in Teddy’s design and they will be presented to those who complete the Schools Walk, during Walk the Wight on Sunday, May 11.
Becky said: “I loved the detail on Teddy’s image. His inspirational quote, ‘I made a difference,’ encapsulates everything Walk the Wight stands for.”
The Schools Walk is one of a number of ways to Walk the Wight. The 26.5 mile main walk, the eight-mile flat walk and two half walks (starting and finishing at Carisbrooke) will also take place in less than a fortnight.
Sign up before 9am on May 8, to pay £15 and collect your walker number at your chosen start line, at iw.observer/register-walk-the-wight.
The Schools Walk sees school children hop, skip, bike, jump or run the required distance in the lead-up to the big day, before completing the last four miles from Freshwater Bay to Alum Bay, over Tennyson Down.
Join the Schools Walk at iw.observer/schools-walk.
Mal Butler