Ballinkillen NS to fly the flag for Carlow in Someone Like Me art competition

THE TALENTED boys and girls in Ballinkillen National School have just been named junior and senior county winners of the prestigious national art competition ‘Someone Like Me’. The achievement secures them a place at the national awards ceremony to be held at Dublin City Hall on Tuesday 28 January, where they will join 50 other schools to compete for the much-sought-after national senior and junior titles.

Now in its ninth year, the ‘Someone Like Me’ art competition, which is organised by the National Disability Authority, attracted 2,783 entries from primary schools across the length and breadth of the country. The competition was created as part of the National Disability Authority’s work to nurture more positive attitudes towards people with disabilities.

To date, it has seen more than 25,000 children take part in lesson plans and pupil activities designed to help them develop an awareness and understanding of visible and non-visible disabilities, drawing on their own experiences of disability in a bid to help create a more inclusive society.