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The aim of this poster competition is to raise awareness of the silent killer, carbon monoxide poisoning and how to prevent it and thereby save lives and preserve health. The poster competition is for the last year of state primary school (year 6, i.e. aged 10-11). If you have any comments or queries please email Stephanie Trotter OBE at office@co-gassafety.co.uk

Please click on the picture above to see a film of a talk to a primary school about carbon monoxide and the charity schools poster competition. Paul Overton, director of CO-Gas Safety and stepfather of Katie Overton gave a talk to Craneswater Junior School in November 2008. Katie died of CO aged 11 in 2003 while she was attending this school.

Resources for the 2008/09 Competition:

• Flyer - Brief details of 2008/09 Schools Poster Competition
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• Quote from Ed Balls MP Secretary of State for Children, Schools & Families after the prize giving event at the House of Commons for the 2007-08 competition.
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• PowerPoint Presentation version of the CO-Gas Safety Booklet
  This will make it easy for anyone to give a talk. Some of the slides have notes added to assist you.
  Download: High Res (4MB, PPT) | NB. You'll need PowerPoint to view this file, available to download free from here.
  
  
• CO-Gas Online Booklet
  Download: High Res (2MB, PDF)
  
  
• Rules
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• Sponsorship Sought for the Schools Poster Competition
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• Flyer - 'Celebrating Eddie'
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Some people with Dial-Up Internet Access might have trouble downloading these files. If so, please ask your school to do it for you.

Illustrated materials about carbon monoxide written especially for the competition as well as the competition rules are available by following the link above. The prizes are £200 for the students and £300 (to be spent on IT equipment) for each winning school. There are two regions (see rules) so there will be one winning student for each region and one overall winning student but we are also hoping for an overseas winner. Winners will be presented with prizes at an event at the Houses of Parliament.

It is recommended that all students and teachers print out the material available as well as the rules and read them thoroughly before entering. To win an entry must be both accurate and have IMPACT. The Carbon Monoxide Gas Safety charity encourages students and teachers to take the materials about carbon monoxide home to their families.

Do also look at the news below and photos of the winners and their posters for the 2007/08 competition.

News about the 2007/08 Competition

Winners of CO-Gas Safety’s School Poster Competition to raise awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and other fuel toxins 2007-08 (Please note that CO-Gas Safety has copyright to the posters so please put '© Copyright CO-Gas Safety' and 'Reproduced by kind permission of CO-Gas Safety' on any reproduction you might put in an ordinary article in the newspaper. For anything further, please seek our permission by emailing office@co-gassafety.co.uk or telephoning 07803 088688 if it is urgent.) Press Release: Download (<0.1MB, Word)
NORTH OF ENGLAND	Posters	Prize-Giving
North Ages 10 - 11 Winner - Tayla Shelley (girl) Aged 10 Sheffield High School Junior Department Teacher Sarah Groombridge. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to enter your class. Attending today Head Mrs. Anne Jones. Thank you for attending.	Click to view	Click to view
North Ages 16 -17 Winner - Harmanpreet Ghuman (girl) Aged 17 Bishop Milner Catholic School Entered on her own behalf – very well done.	Click to view	Click to view
SOUTH OF ENGLAND
South Ages 10-11 Winner - Jessica Eales (girl) Aged 11 Lymington Junior School Teacher Ben Willis. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to enter your class.	Click to view	Click to view
South Ages 16-17 Winner - Alexandra Greengrass (girl) Aged 16 Southend High School for Boys Teacher Ray Bass. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to enter your class.	Click to view	Click to view
A big THANK YOU to our sponsors - Please click here for details

Winners have been notified. A prize-winning event will be held on Tuesday 26th January 2010 at the House of Lords supported by Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools & Families and the Corfu parents, who tragically lost their children to carbon monoxide in 2006.

The Schools Poster Competition is dedicated to the memory of Edward Tomlinson, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the Lebanon. Our particular thanks to Heather Tomlinson, Ed’s mother, who kindly ran a pilot project of this competition for us.

Flyer - 'Celebrating Eddie'
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