We decided to place the responsibility for creating our logo in the hands of Bookham’s younger population – children from The Dawnay School, and Eastwick Infants and Eastwick Junior Schools responded to the challenge and a good few hundred children entered our logo competition..

We had a great selection of artwork, and the selection team quite enjoyed the difficult task of picking a winner. 

The children were given a fairly broad brief. They were asked to come up with something that maybe used the “vision” theme, the “voice” theme, or perhaps a Bookham landmark or possibly one of the topic areas (Economy; Environment; Transport and Access; Social and Community).

In their own sweet way they tell a story of what the younger members of the community think about Bookham.  There were pictures of children playing, plenty of trees, and the St Nicholas’s church featured highly as a Bookham landmark.  There were also some creative and colourful ways of writing Bookham Vision.

In the end we settled on a combination of two winning entries, both by children from Eastwick Junior School.  Thomas Haylings, from class 4M, gave us a good outline of the church and the crossroads adjacent to it.  The church was quite a common theme.  Mary Barnaville, from class 4W inspired us with the way she had written Bookham Vision with a tick for the V.  Congratulations to both of them, and many many thanks to all the other young artists from Bookham!