{"id":729,"date":"2012-12-13T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/?p=729"},"modified":"2012-12-13T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:36:27","slug":"runners-up-at-national-awards-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/2012\/12\/13\/runners-up-at-national-awards-in-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Runners up at National awards in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"
Leswalt Primary School were recently thrilled to be told they were nominated in the \u201cSchool of the Year\u201d category in the Bikeability awards organised by Cycle Scotland.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/address>\n
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This nomination was in respect of the school and community promoting cycling through participation and subsequently winning \u201cThe Big Pedal\u201d National competition.\u00a0 The school was also nominated in relation to the way they embraced the Bikeability cycle training scheme (previously Cycle Proficiency) though parental, community and community warden involvement.<\/span><\/address>\n
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Mrs Sheila Baillie, head teacher and Mrs Fiona Topping (parent volunteer who has helped deliver the Bikeability training scheme) both travelled to Edinburgh to the awards ceremony in November.<\/span><\/address>\n
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Leswalt Primary was amongst 6 schools across the country that were shortlisted and were delighted to be named runner up \u201cSchool of the year\u201d.\u00a0 The winning school was Lainshaw Primary in Stewarton, Ayrshire.<\/span><\/address>\n
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The photograph shows Jamie and Emma Drennan who both cycled approximately 5 miles to school every day to help their school win \u201cThe Big Pedal\u201d.\u00a0 This was a considerable distance over hilly terrain and \u00a0in all weathers for anyone, but all the more remarkable as Jamie was a Primary 2 pupil at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leswalt Primary School were recently thrilled to be told they were nominated in the \u201cSchool of the Year\u201d category in the Bikeability awards organised by Cycle Scotland. \u00a0 This nomination was in respect of the school and community promoting cycling through participation and subsequently winning \u201cThe Big Pedal\u201d National competition.\u00a0 The school was also nominated … Continue reading “Runners up at National awards in Edinburgh”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/LeswaltPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}