Fairlop Primary School

Optional home learning activities for February half-term 2026

Fourth Plinth Schools Awards 2026 Competition

The Fourth Plinth Schools Awards 2026 competition is a chance for children to get creative and produce a work of art inspired by the contemporary art commissions for Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth.

How to enter:

• Read the information below and look at the pictures to learn more about Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth
• Design what you think should go on the Fourth Plinth - be as cretive as you can!
• Entries can be in all art forms, including drawing, painting, sculpture, collage and digital designs.
• Bring your entry back to school, or email it to us to admin.fairlop@redbridge.gov.uk, by Friday 27th February.
• We wil then choose a selection of entries to submit to the online gallery.

There are winner and runner-up prizes for different age categories: 5-7 years and 8-11 years, as well as prizes for the best work from each borough. There’ll also be a presentation ceremony at the new City Hall in the spring, and the winner of each category will appear in an exhibition later in the year.

WHAT IS THE FOURTH PLINTH?
The Fourth Plinth sits in the north west corner of Trafalgar Square. It is a platform for an ongoing programme of contemporary sculpture commissions. The plinth was originally meant to host an equestrian statue of King William IV. However, it remained empty from 1841 until 1999 when the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) announced that a sequence of three contemporary artworks would be displayed there from 1999-2002. It was so successful, a commission was set up to decide the plinth’s future use. The commission decided that the best use of the plinth was to continue to show temporary contemporary art commissions. In 2000 the Mayor of
London took over management of Trafalgar Square and created the Fourth Plinth Commission as it stands today.