BUDDING artists at a Worcester primary school have won a top award after taking part in a festival of drawing.

St George's CE Primary School received a prestigious drawing inspiration award from the Campaign for Drawing for the successful event it created for The Big Draw 2007 competition.

The school was one of 1,350 taking part in events at 1,200 venues across the UK last year. The school won a top award for its project called Past, Present and Future.

It organised a festival of drawing for all the pupils in the school as well as a popular art club for pupils and their carers where they made picture books with author and illustrator Petr Horacek. The Extended Sch-ools Programme supported these activities.

The award was presented in London at a ceremony hosted by the Royal Acad-emy of Engineering at the Royal Society, where St George's CE Primary School received £500 and a commemorative certificate dr-awn by leading illustrator and Campaign for Drawing patron Quentin Blake.

Its winning event is illustrated in the campaign's new book, which will be sent to thousands of museums, galleries, heritage sites, schools and community spaces as inspiration for the 2008 Big Draw.

Sue Grayson Ford, campaign director, said: "St George's CE Primary School fully demonstrated the Big Draw's aims of bringing people together, engaging them creatively and supporting active learning - all through drawing. I am always am-azed how organisers with limited resources, but unlimited enthusiasm and imagination, are able to expand the boundaries of drawing."

Pupils at the school in St George's Lane North, Barbourne, competed ag-ainst the City of York Council, Arts and Culture with Arts Action, the Brunel Museum, and South London Art Gallery to win the award.

Following its success, the school was invited to exhibit the children's work at the Olympics in Beijing this summer.