YOUNGSTERS from Damers First School in Dorchester will have a special way to remember the royal wedding, Creative children at the school have produced the winning designs for a royal wedding plate design competition run by solicitors Blanchards Bailey.

The three winning designs, created on paper plates, will now be made into real plates by Vanessa Conyer at The Pottery Parlour in Blandford to create commemorative pieces of the day.

The competition, which involved schools from across the Dorchester area, was judged by Poundbury development manager Simon Conibear, who praised the standard of entries.

He told children from Damers who produced the winning entries: “You are all a credit to your school.”

The Damers Road school also received a £100 voucher to help develop the school garden at a presentation ceremony at the Poundbury Gardens.

School secretary Debbie Gould said: “We are delighted, it was a lovely thing for the children to be able to do in the first place and we were absolutely thrilled to win.

“And these plates are going to be made into proper plates and the children were extremely pleased about that. They are going to be individual one-off pieces not to be seen anywhere else.” Mrs Gould added that the children at the school would help decide how to spend the gardening vouchers.

She said: “The children worked ever so hard and the school also won £100 worth of gardening vouchers.

“We have got a gardening club and lots space with lots of pots and plants and things so the money will be spent very wisely.

“What ever we spend it on the children will have an input.”

Mrs Gould said that the children enjoyed their trip to the garden centre in Poundbury, where they were presented with their prizes by director of the Gardens Group James Foster-Pegg.

She said: “It was really nice, the children really enjoyed it.”