And an overall winner has been chosen, with the winning design made into a safety poster for use on site.

The competition was organised by the Casey Pro-Environment Group who are working on the town's Harley Bank scheme. Representatives from the company visited an assembly in school to talk to the children about the dangers of playing on and around building sites.

All Key Stage 2 children took part in designing a poster. Casey chose the winners and came along to an assembly with the Mayor of Todmorden, Coun Julie Stansfield, to present gift vouchers to Kirstie Mae Murphy, Chelsea Schofield and Mark Schofield, who designed the winning entries at Todmorden C of E School.

At Ferney Lee School they presented prizes to Adam Duxbury, Ellie Parker-Bewell and Joshua Rowe and at St Joseph's School they presented prizes to Alice Fowler, Sam Walker and Thomas Williams.

It was a hard task for the Casey team to choose an overall winner from the three schools but in the end they chose a design by Leila Babar of Ferney Lee School, and she was invited to Harley Bank to see her design made into a poster which is in use on site and can currently be seen at Broad Street.

A spokesman for Casey said it had been a great pleasure to visit the primary schools which were near the Harley Bank site and the competition had a very practical as well as creative purpose, encouraging children to play safely while work is going on.

"It has been extremely rewarding for us to receive such positive input from staff, pupils and parents in these community initiatives.

"These safety presentations are designed to highlight potential hazards found on building sites and hopefully leave a lasting impression on the children, resulting in fewer accidents. We look forward to continuing to work in other areas of the community," she said.