Nursery World - Playgroup cheers across the water

A rural playgroup in Northern Ireland is seeking to bring a ray of happiness into the lives of young children in New York affected by last month's terrorist attack on the city. The three-and four-year-olds at Drumnaroad Cross-community Pre-school and Playgroup near Newcastle in Co Down have sent 'happy pictures' to the Margaret Douglas School in Manhattan, an early childhood unit with a kindergarten, to help brighten up children's lives following the destruction of the World Trade Centre on 11 September.

The three-and four-year-olds at Drumnaroad Cross-community Pre-school and Playgroup near Newcastle in Co Down have sent 'happy pictures' to the Margaret Douglas School in Manhattan, an early childhood unit with a kindergarten, to help brighten up children's lives following the destruction of the World Trade Centre on 11 September.

Playgroup leader Marian Flan-agan said that they wanted to reach out to children in New York because Northern Ireland had its own history of terrorist attacks and she thought it would help comfort children by letting them know that people in other countries were thinking of them. She said one of the playgroup's children was in New York with her parents about six miles from Manhattan at the time of the atrocity.

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