Creative children are brushing up on their art skills for the chance to win an iPad in the Telegraph & Argus Queen’s Diamond Jubilee drawing competition.

Around 400 pupils at St John’s CE Primary School in Bierley are getting out their pencils, pens and paints to draw a picture of the Queen for the T&A’s Diamond Jubilee Portrait Competition – and there is still time for you to enter.

The competition is open to all children aged four to 14 and the winners of the three age groups – as chosen by the public – will each receive a £100 voucher to spend at the Kirkgate Centre, in Bradford Hazel Lamin, business manager at the Dawson Lane school, said: “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event and when we saw the competition, we thought it would be a fantastic way for our pupils to get involved in the celebration”.

The creator of the piece of artwork judged best overall from the three age group winners will not only receive an iPad and the £100 voucher, but they will also see their picture used on the front cover of the T&A's final Diamond Decades supplement.

This special souvenir, to appear in the T&A on June 9, will be packed with goodwill messages from T&A readers and will be sent to the Queen.

All you have to do is paint or draw a colour picture of the Queen and include on it a jubilee congratulations message. The picture (including the message) must be square and at least 20cm by 20cm in size.

Send your picture to Diamond Jubilee Portrait Competition, c/o Sue Bains, Editorial Department, Telegraph & Argus, Hall Ings, Bradford BD1 1JR.

Entries can also be handed in at the T&A office in Hall Ings, and at the offices of the Keighley News in North Street, Keighley; the Ilkley Gazette and Wharfedale & Aireborough Observer in Wells Road, Ilkley; and the Craven Herald in High Street, Skipton.

Entries must reach us by 5pm on Friday, May 4.

A panel of judges will pick the best entries to appear in a special T&A supplement on June 1 and readers will be invited to vote for their favourite by text or phone.