Walk in My Shoes (WIMS) celebrates students for their efforts to promote positive mental health through art.
Students from primary and secondary schools and Youthreach centres and Further Education and Training (FET) centres from across Ireland were celebrated at a Mission Possible ceremony.
The awards ceremony took place in St Patrick’s University Hospital on 29 April to announce the winners and runners-up of the Mission Possible 2025/26 competition.
Fostering positive mental health and wellbeing
Our Mission Possible School Achievement Awards is an annual competition that showcases the meaningful work schools, Youthreach centres and Further Education and Training (FET) centres across the country are undertaking to foster positive mental health and wellbeing in the classroom and in the community.
For this year’s competition, students across Ireland were invited to design a poster that creatively shares a positive mental health message. Through art, words and imagination, students were invited to explore what positive mental health and wellbeing means to them - and help spark important conversations in their school communities and beyond.
There were almost 200 entries this year, a record number of entries to the competition since its inception in 2017.
2026 Mission Possible winners and runners-up
The winners and runners-up in each category are below.
Primary schools
First place: Shanbally National School, County Cork for their poster, Your Mental Wellbeing Matters.
Runners-up: Drumlease National School, County Leitrim for their poster, I’m more than enough, and Scoil Naoimh Áine Clondalkin, County Dublin for their poster, Breaking free.
Secondary schools
First place: Ursuline Secondary School, Thurles, County Tipperary for their poster, A Garden Inside My Head.
Runners-up: Bunclody Community College, County Wexford for their poster, Unwind, and St Louis Secondary School, Dundalk, County Louth for their poster, Wellness.
FET and Youthreach centres
First place: Clara Youthreach, Clara, County Offaly for their poster, There is Always Light at the End of the Tunnel.
Runners-up: Youthreach Leitrim, Drumshanbo, County Leitrim for two entries, Hope and Language.
Mission Possible judges
The students were joined at the awards ceremony by the competition judging panel: Paul Gilligan, Chief Executive Officer at St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS); Tamara Nolan, Director of Communications and Advocacy with SPMHS; and Jacqueline Toal, Art Therapist with SPMHS.
Mission Possible 2026 prizes
First-place winners in each category received a €1,000 cash prize for their school, a Mission Possible trophy, a role as a WIMS School Ambassador for the next academic year, and a WIMS School Support Package. Winners in the secondary school category will receive a guaranteed place on our Transition Year Programme. Runners-up received a €500 cash prize for their school, a Mission Possible trophy and a WIMS Wellbeing Pack.
