Two Greater Manchester schools have scooped prizes in a creative digital competition to raise awareness of anti-social behaviour and fare evasion on Metrolink trams.
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) invited more than 250 schools in areas along the 92-stop tram network to use an online toolkit and create an advert about the consequences of bad behaviour on Metrolink.
59 entries were received and today, dozens of pupils from four shortlisted schools saw their 60-second commercials on the big screen at HOME – Manchester’s international centre for contemporary visual art, theatre and film.
At the mini-Oscars, Droylsden’s Fairfield High School for Girls picked up the winning prize for their hard-hitting radio commercial about the penalties for fare evasion – “Stop, think, take pride in your Metrolink!” – which won a social media challenge after their entry exceeded more than 2,000 views on YouTube.
The winning schoolchildren will see their advert run as a trailer at selected screenings on HOME’s Big Family Day on Sunday 13 December, after picking up Metrolink day tickets, restaurant vouchers and cinema tickets for themselves and family and friends to see family comedy ‘Bill’.
Oldham’s Oasis Academy also picked up a special judges award for artistic merit. Pupils will also get cinema tickets for family and friends for their dramatic and fun TV commercial, showing how copycat behaviour and fare evasion could leave Metrolink with no money left to run services.
Entries from Manchester’s Whalley Range High School and Wythenshawe’s St Elizabeth’s Catholic Primary were also shortlisted.

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