A NINE-YEAR-OLD school pupil from Yate has helped to design South Gloucestershire Council’s Christmas card.

Kacey Sheppard, a pupil at North Road Community Primary School, took part in a competition which invited pupils from the school to create a design for the card.

The year five pupil won the competition with her design of a Christmas tree in front of the Severn Bridge.

The council’s chairman, councillor Howard Gawler, came up with the idea to invite pupils from the primary school to get creative and take part.

Cllr Gawler said: “I thought it would be a nice idea to get a local school involved this year and run a competition for pupils to create designs for the council’s Christmas card.

“All of the children did a really good job at coming up with designs, but in the end we decided that Kacey’s depiction of a Christmas tree in front of the iconic Severn Bridge was the winning design.”

Cllr Gawler visited Kacey at the school, on North Road, on Friday, December 12 to present her with a shopping voucher as a prize.

The Christmas card will be used by the council to send out to associates and a digital version has also been created since the competition.