Benidorm awards twenty schoolchildren in the 16th Christmas Card Competition

Infant and primary school students from thirteen schools in the city have participated and the selected works will illustrate the City Council's Christmas greetings

Twenty boys and girls from Benidorm between the ages of 3 and 12 have been awarded prizes in the 16th edition of the Christmas Card Competition, which is held every year by the Education and Culture departments of Benidorm City Council and in which thousands of children and primary school students from our city have participated. Mayor Toni Pérez, together with councillors Maite Moreno and Jaime Jesús Pérez, heads of both departments, have been once again in charge of presenting the prizes to the authors of the selected postcards, in an event that took place yesterday afternoon, Thursday, in the municipal Assembly Hall and which brought together numerous schoolchildren, families, teachers and members of the municipal Corporation.

In this edition, thirteen educational centres in Benidorm have participated in this competition: the public schools Miguel Hernández, Serra Gelada, Ausiàs March, Leonor Canalejas, El Murtal, Bautista Lledó, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, La Cala, Mestre Gaspar López, Els Tolls and Serra d'Aitana; the charter school Nuestra Señora de los Dolores; and the private school Lope de Vega.

In the first phase, all these centres were responsible for holding the competition among their students and making a first selection of the finalist postcards, 12 for each participating school, to present them to the final phase. In it, a jury selected by the areas of Education and Culture was the one who selected the winning works, whose authors received as a prize a set of recreational and educational material as well as the publication of their drawings in the form of a postcard to wish a Merry Christmas.

Likewise, and as is tradition in Benidorm City Council since this contest began to be organized, all the winning postcards will be the ones used by the Council and the members of the Municipal Corporation to wish everyone a Merry Christmas once again.

The Mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, congratulated all the participants, the winners and the educational centers for “making this endearing contest possible once again” and recalled that the objective of the contest is “to promote values ​​such as coexistence, participation and artistic creation among the students of our city.” Likewise, the mayor highlighted the “special sensitivity of these children with our environment, with what they hear at home, with what has happened,” given that several of the winning postcards include drawings of the flag of the Valencian Community or messages of encouragement and hope for those affected by the flood caused by the DANA on October 29.

Awards
As established in the rules, the competition has been divided into four categories according to the age of the participants. In each of these categories, the awarded students and centers have been:
Early Childhood Education, from 3 to 5 years: 1st Prize, Martín López Cabrera, from the Lope de Vega school; 2nd, Ayden González Álvarez, from the Mestre Gaspar López Primary School; 3rd, Azahara Mellado González, from the Els Tolls Primary School; and second prize for Mattheus Naranjo, from the Leonor Canalejas Primary School.

1st Cycle of Primary Education (first and second year of Primary) : 1st Prize, Fernando Fernández Salinas, from the Bautista Lledó Primary School; 2nd, Jaia González Personat, from the La Cala Primary School; 3rd, Liam Medina Ruiz, from the Vasco Núñez de Balboa Primary School; and second prizes for Emma Perlado and Lucas Santafé Ciufedean, from the Serra Gelada and El Murtal schools.

2nd. Primary Education Cycle (third and fourth years) : 1st Prize, Ana Pampliega Moreno, from the concerted school Our Lady of Sorrows; 2nd, Adrian Bernaltez Bermudez, from the Primary School Bautista Lledo; 3rd; Oliver Martinez Ramirez, from the Primary School Serra d'Aitana; and second prizes for Malena Rodriguez Pallares, Myah Garcia Milanes and Hector Sarrion Navarro, from the schools Our Lady of Sorrows and El Murtal.

3rd. Primary Education Cycle (fifth and sixth years) : 1st Prize, Iago Domenech Reyes, from the Primary School Ausias March; 2nd, Amir Fajardo Nassan Agha, from the Primary School Miguel Hernandez; 3rd, Arianne Antoñana Alfaure, from the Primary School El Murtal; and second prizes for Gabriel Luque Soler and Alicia Pakhomoua, both also from El Murtal.