Year 8 Pupils take a lead in Promoting Healthy Lifestyles – Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership (CYPSP)

A healthy lifestyle engagement event held on 27 October 2016 brought together 41 Year 8 pupils from Our Lady of Lourdes School encouraged young people to keep active and be better informed to make healthier lifestyle choices. The engagement event involved facilitated physical activities including dance, learning about healthy food and lifestyle choices and tasting new fruit and vegetables. Young people in partnership with CYPSP Ballymoney Locality Planning Group, the Northern Obesity Partnership, Public Health Nursing, Causeway Coast and Glens Council and teachers were involved in the planning and design of health initiatives which will be implemented at their school.