Congratulations to the 31 children from Primaries 6 and 7 who gave their all at today’s competition in Lochmaben. They all tried their best, behaved impeccably and enjoyed themselves. A special “well done” to the P6 boys and girls teams who came home with medals and to Dylan and Gabi  who won individual prizes

Primary 6 spent an interesting morning at Annan Academy learning all about seafood. We learned loads, tried new things and were even filmed for the news!! To read more, click on the Primary 6 link on the right.

Keep an eye on the Border News this week (ITV Border at 6PM)

Well done to the Hecklegirth Hounds and Hecklegirth Stingrays, our two basketball teams who competed at Lockerbie Academy on Tuesday in the Annandale and Eskdale Basketball Competition.  The Stingrays narrowly missed out on getting to the semi-finals but both teams played well and enjoyed the event.

Well done to our badminton team sporting our new Hecklegirth Primary School tops.  They were the first children to wear the new tops and shorts and this must have inspired them with some great performances and shots.  Well done in particular to Courtney Barbour – 3rd Primary 5 girl, Ellie Smith – 1st P6 girl and Finn Skoller – 4th Primary 7 boy.

Thanks to the Hecklegirth Fundraisers for the super new kit.

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Happy New Year! Hope this note finds all the Hecklegirth staff and families enjoying the new school term and getting involved in the variety of opportunities on offer across the school community. I am enjoying my secondment to the GIRFEC (Getting It Right For Every Child) team and have been visiting schools across the length and breadth of the region to deliver training and support for school management teams on information sharing, new paperwork and procedures, Child Protection and wellbeing. It is also great to get the opportunity to gather examples of good practice during my visits which we then share with others- it is so good to share! Looking forward to catching up with all the pupils soon! From Mrs Alexander

Well done to all those who competed in the Sportshall Athletics competition last Friday afternoon at Moffat.  The boys and girls competed well over indoor running and field events, finishing 4th overall.

Well done to all our Hecklegirth Primary swimmers and coach Mrs Kirkpatrick.  The team had a successful day at the pool on Monday 14th November.

  Ellie won Bronze in the individual 50m breaststroke.

 Finn also won bronze in the individual 50m breaststroke.

      Courtney, Darci, Ellie and Eva won gold in the 50m front crawl.

 Wallace, Neil, Finn and Aidan won silver in the 50m front crawl.

 Niamh, Gabi, Sarah and Summer won bronze in the 5om front crawl.

Well done everyone.  Some great swims!