Last updated 19:41, Thursday, 10 July 2008

PUPILS at Harrington’s Beckstone Primary School have designs on success.

ANIMATED: Beckstone teacher Jackie Ollett with (from left) Lucy Fleming, Cameron Sowerby, Chloe Cartmell and Nathan Sowerby in Manchester

A group of youngsters were runners-up in a national animation competition.

Year five pupils Lucy Fleming, Chloe Cartmell, Cameron Sowerby and Nathan Sowerby created a computer generated imagery animation called Be Careful What You Wish For for the Schools Computer Animation Festival.

The team attended an awards ceremony at the University of Manchester where it was announced that they were the runners-up. They each won £50.

Four hundred schools across the country took part, and the winners was a school from Bury.

Beckstone headteacher David Warbrick said that Be Careful What You Wish For was the story of a child who wished he could see a ghost and when a ghost appeared, he was so scared that he wished he hadn’t wished for it.

He added: “We are thrilled. For children aged nine and 10 to be able to make a short animated film using CGI is extremely impressive and is testament to the advanced IT skills today’s generation of children have.”

The students had a winners’ lunch after the ceremony in the School of Computer Science at the university.