Pam Parker Map Competition 2012 results

There were 52 individual entrants this year, though from a smaller number of schools. There were only 9 maps from south of Dartmoor and none from East Devon. However, one school, Monkleigh Primary, managed to scoop both the first prizes for the individual award and for the school producing the highest quality and most useful maps. The runners up were very close behind and examples of the various contributors will be up on our website shortly. Read the full results here…

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