{"id":8244,"date":"2021-05-04T16:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=8244"},"modified":"2021-05-04T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T18:30:13","slug":"national-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=8244","title":{"rendered":"National Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that we informed you that three of our three Primary 6 girls, Ava Lily, Izzy and Maya had reached the final stages of the Poppyscotland Fundraising Heroes competition for their fundraising efforts for Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<p>We have just received an official email to inform us that the girls have won in their category: Best Fundraising Photograph!\u00a0 This has earned them \u00a3500 in Amazon vouchers for our school.\u00a0 The backstory to the photograph demonstrates the girls&#8217; selfless initiative to raise funds for this very important charity.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation was received from Yvonne Caddell, Learning and Volunteer coordinator today.\u00a0 She writes:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7351\" style=\"width: 1260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2020\/11\/10122342\/124801001_659670164717672_1048310873768035512_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7351\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2020\/11\/10122342\/124801001_659670164717672_1048310873768035512_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Merchandise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>I am extremely delighted to announce that \u2018The Pineapple Squad\u2019 from Portpatrick Primary School<\/em> <em>have\u00a0<u>won<\/u>\u00a0the Fundraising Heroes! Competition 2020 in the category of \u2018Best Fundraising-in-Action Photo\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our massive and warmest\u00a0<span class=\"mark6r0j7qxth SSBqA0O5vTLfa9GC1wxGQ\" data-markjs=\"true\">congratulations<\/span> to\u00a0Maya McNeill, Ava Lily Orr-Ewing and Isabella White.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m sure you will agree the girls truly deserved their win. This photo perfectly captures the girls\u2019 enthusiasm for running their own initiative fundraising enterprise project. Looking at the results of the voting their school and local communities really got behind them and kept them in the lead throughout all of the weeks of voting!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All very best wishes and\u00a0<span class=\"mark6r0j7qxth SSBqA0O5vTLfa9GC1wxGQ\" data-markjs=\"true\">congratulations<\/span>\u00a0once again!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are so proud of our girls for their dedication to others.\u00a0 It is quite an achievement, particular when the winner was decided by a national voting poll.\u00a0 Thank you to everyone who shared, voted and supported the girls in their efforts.<\/p>\n<p># Responsible Citizens<\/p>\n<p># Effective Contributors<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7350\" style=\"width: 1260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2020\/11\/10122338\/124752175_3437039263041836_2381165987823947378_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/portpatrickprimary\/uploads\/sites\/4131\/2020\/11\/10122338\/124752175_3437039263041836_2381165987823947378_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fund Raising Heroes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall that we informed you that three of our three Primary 6 girls, Ava Lily, Izzy and Maya had reached the final stages of the Poppyscotland Fundraising Heroes competition for their fundraising efforts for Remembrance Day. We have just received an official email to inform us that the girls have won in their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=8244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Winners!&#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-8244","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\/8244","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=8244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8248,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions\/8248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}