NHS Western Isles kids’ winter design competition winners!

Ten children from Primary 1 to Primary 7, from across the Western Isles, have been selected as winners of the poster design competition. Children had been invited to design posters using paints, pens, pencils, glitter (or using whatever other creative materials they preferred) with the theme of ‘Keeping Families Fit, Healthy and Happy’.

NHS Western Isles is delighted to announce 10 young winners of our recent children’s winter design competition, which aimed to help raise awareness of Keeping Families Fit, Healthy and Happy.

The competition was part of the NHS Western Isles’ Winter Communications Plan to encourage children to discuss health and wellbeing with their parents, carers, guardians or teachers.

This year’s winners are:

• Primary 1: Mia, Pairc Primary School
• Primary 2: Jessica Rose Maciver, Stornoway Primary School & Lottie Mae Maclennan, Stornoway Primary School
• Primary 3: Lexi MacDougall, Sgoil Uibhist a Tuath
• Primary 4: Violet Daly, Castlebay School
• Primary 5: Matilda Maclennan, Leverhulme Memorial School
• Primary 6: Isla Chidgey, Castlebay School & Edith Macfarlane Macleod, Stornoway Primary School
• Primary 7: Otylia Juszczak, Laxdale School & Finlay Patterson, Castlebay School

Each winning poster will be framed and displayed in the child’s local hospital and each winner will also receive a certificate and gift voucher.

NHS Western Isles Head of Communications, Claims and Patient Information, Maggie Jamieson, said: “We received around 80 entries to the competition this winter and there were some excellent creative designs. We’d like to thank everyone for taking the time to enter and for considering the important theme of keeping families fit, healthy and happy.

“The aim of this competition was to get children and young people involved in thinking about health and wellbeing and to share and discuss this important topic with the adults in their lives. Starting these conversations at a young age, and encouraging parents, carers and teachers to get involved, helps ensure that these important messages are well understood.”

We will be in touch with winners shortly to pass the prizes and certificates to them and the posters will be on display in local hospitals in the near future.