A STOURPORT pupil will have her artwork displayed on the historic site of a former primary school where new multi-million pound retirement homes are taking shape.

Nine-year-old Alice Price has designed the four foot flag which will be attached to a crane and raised aloft at the School Gardens site, in Stourport.

Her design was chosen following a competition run by Stourport Primary School to celebrate their former school site being transformed by Bromford into a £10.5m development creating 60 retirement living apartments for over 55s.

The flag uses the words ‘recover’, ‘rejuvenate’ and ‘refresh’ to describe a transformation on land where Tan Lane Infants School, and later Stourport First School, stood for decades from 1897.

The winning flag was presented to Alice in a celebration assembly this month and will soon be flown at School Gardens.

Jacqui Elwis, headteacher, said: “It was very difficult to pick a winner and we had all sorts of designs submitted from year one right up to year six pupils.

“Ultimately, Alice’s design really stood out and I was particularly impressed with how she had incorporated the former site, the school rainbow and the three key words into her artwork which really demonstrate a sense of what is happening to the old school site.”

Alex Dixon, Bromford’s director of new homes, said: “I love Alice’s design and the word ‘rejuvenate’ really does encapsulate what we are doing not just on the actual site but in the nearby community too.

“It was lovely to present the winning design to Alice and congratulate her on her creative flair and I am sure the flag will really stand out on site during the rest of the construction work.”

The site, where work began in December 2015, is beginning to take shape with brickwork forming a significant part of the design.

Residents interested in finding out more about the retirement complex during an information day on Friday, September 30, between 10am and 4pm, at Hallmark Hotel, in Hartlebury Road.