{"id":18083,"date":"2026-02-16T06:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=18083"},"modified":"2026-02-16T06:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:49:26","slug":"primary-6-success-at-wigtownshire-badminton-championships-%f0%9f%8f%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=18083","title":{"rendered":"Primary 6 Success at Wigtownshire Badminton Championships \ud83c\udff8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re incredibly proud of two of our Primary 6 boys who represented our school at the Wigtownshire Badminton Championships. Competing against strong players from across the locality, they demonstrated fantastic skill, determination, and sportsmanship throughout the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This pathway competition celebrates participation and achievement, and the standard of play was excellent with all matches played in a friendly and supportive spirit. A special well done to <strong>Harry<\/strong>, who secured \ud83e\udd47 gold, and <strong>Finlay<\/strong>, who earned an impressive 4th place against still competition &#8211; a brilliant accomplishment!  Harry will go forward to the regional heat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to the staff, volunteers, hosts, and families whose encouragement makes opportunities like this possible. It\u2019s wonderful to see so many young people enjoying and developing their badminton skills.  Mr Morrison and Mrs Ross has made sure the boys have had plenty of practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Four Capacities:<\/strong> Developing <strong>Confident Individuals<\/strong> through resilience and teamwork<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Metaskills:<\/strong> Strengthening <strong>Self-management<\/strong> and <strong>Social intelligence<\/strong> through competition and sportsmanship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>UNCRC:<\/strong> Article 29 \u2014 developing talents and abilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SHANARRI:<\/strong> Promoting <strong>Active<\/strong> and <strong>Achieving<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/medal-winners-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"18085\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/medal-winners-1-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/medal-winners-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/medal-winners-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/medal-winners-1.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 85vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/AM-HM-Bedminton-comp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"18084\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/AM-HM-Bedminton-comp-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/AM-HM-Bedminton-comp-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/AM-HM-Bedminton-comp-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/AM-HM-Bedminton-comp-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/AM-HM-Bedminton-comp-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2026\/02\/16064907\/AM-HM-Bedminton-comp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re incredibly proud of two of our Primary 6 boys who represented our school at the Wigtownshire Badminton Championships. Competing against strong players from across the locality, they demonstrated fantastic skill, determination, and sportsmanship throughout the event. This pathway competition celebrates participation and achievement, and the standard of play was excellent with all matches played &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=18083\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Primary 6 Success at Wigtownshire Badminton Championships \ud83c\udff8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18086,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083\/revisions\/18086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}