Zoe has an artist’s eye to win Christmas card competition
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MSP Alasdair Allan last week announced the winner of the annual schools’ competition to design his Christmas card.
The winner was Zoe Leparoux, a primary seven pupil from Sgoil Uig on Lewis, whose design featured festive Highland cattle with Santa in the sunset.
Dr Allan presented Zoe with an array of Scottish Parliament-themed prizes when he visited the school to announce the winner.
The islands MSP has run the schools’ competition since he was first elected in 2007 and receives many hundreds of entries from schools across the Western Isles every year.
The winning entry is sent out to more than 1,000 individuals and organisations across the constituency and across the country.
Dr Allan commented: ‘As always, it was very difficult to choose a winner from among the many wonderful and imaginative designs submitted by children from across the islands. However, I am very proud to have Zoe’s design as my official Christmas card and I hope she enjoys her prizes.
‘I would like to thank all of the pupils and schools who took part this year, as well as this year’s sponsors – Horshader Community Development Trust, Hebridean Energy, Bob Golland Plumbing and Heating, Ken MacDonald and Co, and The Blue
Pig Studio in Carloway for their generous donations towards the cost of printing the card. I would also like to take this opportunity to wish all of my constituents a very happy and peaceful Christmas with their families.’