On the last day before the Easter holidays Hecklegirth Primary School won the Large School Sports Initiative Award for 2016 at the Annandale and Eskdale Sports Awards.  This was for our focus in giving opportunity for as many children as possible to access different activities by offering a range of clubs from different sports and also trying to cater for all ages from P1-7.  We have also ensured that we entered all available competitions/ events in the Annandale and Eskdale Primary PEPAS calendar.  In entering these events we had a very successful year with our swimming and gymnastics teams.  We had the  girls Annandale and Eskdale cross country championship winner 2016 – Isla Cooper.  We were the A & E Basketball competition runners up in Feb 2016.  Ellie Smith was the  Primary 5 A & E badminton competition winner in Feb 2016.  We won the rugby comp in Oct/ Nov 2016.  The girls won the A & E Netball competition in May.  Two teams of P5/6 girls took part in a girls’ football festival in Dumfries in Sept 2016 and the boys football team also took part in many competitions being runners up at the Riding of the Marches comp in June 2016.   The football team played regular league matches against other local schools as well as entering all available competitions.

We were nominated alongside Newington, Moffat Primary, Langholm Academy and Lockerbie Academy.

This award is a great achievement and wouldn’t be possible without the support from our parents, teachers, Active Schools and of course all of the children who have taken part in clubs and competitions during 2016.  Well done everyone, a great team effort.

Our successful swimming team were also nominated for an individual achievement award.  Well done Mrs Kirkpatrick and all the Hecklegirth Primary swimmers.