High School student wins milk bottle brand design competition for this year’s Royal Highland Show
Firrhill High School pupil, Lucy Bell, saw her winning milk bottle design featured at this year’s Royal Highland Show, after competing against 47 other entries as part of a school’s competition launched by the organisers of Scotland’s largest outdoor event and leading agricultural Show.
Secondary school pupils (S1- S4) from across Scotland, were invited to design their own milk bottle brand by RHASS, the producers of the event, in partnership with the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET), to support this year’s Show theme of Education and Learning and RHET’s Year of Dairy, with the aim of placing skills, knowledge, and innovation front and centre throughout the Show.
Lucy’s winning milk bottle design, which features a cow as part of her ‘Milk Magic’ and ‘Udderly Delicious’ branding, was printed on a one litre glass bottle by Seaways Services (UK) Ltd, which provides a range of resources to the dairy sector, and was showcased at the Scottish Milk Championships during the Show.
As part of her prize, Lucy received free tickets to the Show on Sunday 22nd June for her family and friends, as well as a keepsake of her design.
Lucy Bell, who is in second year at Firrhil High School, said: “I wanted to design something that helped to get a simple message across about the health benefits of milk and that it was a brand of milk that was udderly delicious and something to be enjoyed!
“I’m over the moon that my design was selected and thoroughly enjoyed going to the Royal Highland Show for the very first time!”
The top ten shortlisted design entries from the competition were showcased across the four-day event. These included other Firrhill High School pupils: Nemika Bandara, Olivia MacDougall, Alison Forbes and Alex Bian, as well as Oxgangs Primary pupils who took part in a rosette design competition for those from P1-P7: Rayyan Amir and Jack Jurasinski.
David Tennant, Head of Royal Highland Show and one of the judges of the competition, said: “A huge congratulations to Lucy! Her design really stood out to the judges for it’s simple but effective design.
“We all agreed that it was a brand that we could imagine on the supermarket shelves and who knows, maybe we will see Lucy’s artwork featured there one day in the future!”
The Royal Highland Show took place at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh from 19th – 22nd June 2025.
Children aged 15 and under attended for free, with the event offering a number of free educational activities and experiential opportunities for children including hands-on workshops at the RHET Discovery Centre where children explored everything from pizza building to cheese tasting and sushi rolling!