{"id":5584,"date":"2025-09-22T07:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:36:54","slug":"celebrating-avas-swimming-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/?p=5584","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Ava\u2019s Swimming Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are very proud to share the achievements of <strong>Ava<\/strong>, who recently competed in the <strong>North Ayrshire Development Meet<\/strong> with the Stranraer Stingrays Swimming Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competing in the <strong>9 and under category<\/strong>, Ava showed determination, perseverance, and skill in every race. Her results were outstanding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\ud83e\udd47 <strong>100m Individual Medley<\/strong> \u2013 1st place, 1:48.23 (Personal Best of 9.85s)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83e\udd48 <strong>100m Freestyle<\/strong> \u2013 2nd place, 1:36.21 (PB of 3.48s)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83e\udd48 <strong>100m Backstroke<\/strong> \u2013 2nd place, 1:50.41 (PB of 5.66s)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83e\udd48 <strong>50m Breaststroke<\/strong> \u2013 2nd place, 56.16 (+0.10s)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6th place <strong>50m Backstroke<\/strong> \u2013 52.08 (PB of -0.62s)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\ud83c\udfc5 <strong>100m Breaststroke<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cToo Fast\u201d award, 1:59.64 (+1.56s)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8th place <strong>50m Freestyle<\/strong> \u2013 46.37 (+1.20s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s <strong>four new personal bests, one gold medal, three silver medals, a top-six finish, and her very first \u2018Too Fast\u2019 keyring<\/strong> \u2013 a fantastic accomplishment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ava\u2019s success is a brilliant example of how learning extends beyond the classroom. Through swimming, she is developing key skills such as <strong>resilience, self-motivation, and goal-setting<\/strong>, all of which are central to the <strong>Curriculum for Excellence<\/strong> and to opportunities for <strong>personal achievement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would like to say a big thank you to <strong>Emma and Clare<\/strong>, her Stingray coaches, and to <strong>Miss Lisi, her mum<\/strong>, for making sure Ava makes it to those all-important practices and competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone at <strong>St. Joseph\u2019s Primary<\/strong> is so proud of you, Ava \u2013 well done! \ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UNCRC<\/strong> \u2013 Right to develop talents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SHANARRI<\/strong> \u2013 Achieving and healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Metaskills<\/strong> \u2013 Focus, initiative, resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SDGs<\/strong> \u2013 Good health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This Is Our Faith<\/strong> \u2013 Using God-given gifts.<\/p>\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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"5586\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/stjosephsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/8813\/2025\/09\/22073627\/759d43d2-594b-4d97-8b10-6723ddbfa9c9-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/stjosephsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/8813\/2025\/09\/22073627\/759d43d2-594b-4d97-8b10-6723ddbfa9c9-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/stjosephsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/8813\/2025\/09\/22073627\/759d43d2-594b-4d97-8b10-6723ddbfa9c9-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/stjosephsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/8813\/2025\/09\/22073627\/759d43d2-594b-4d97-8b10-6723ddbfa9c9-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/stjosephsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/8813\/2025\/09\/22073627\/759d43d2-594b-4d97-8b10-6723ddbfa9c9.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"5585\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/stjosephsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/8813\/2025\/09\/22073611\/2cc55270-382b-442e-a81f-1503708694d2-470x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/stjosephsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/8813\/2025\/09\/22073611\/2cc55270-382b-442e-a81f-1503708694d2-470x1024.jpg 470w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/stjosephsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/8813\/2025\/09\/22073611\/2cc55270-382b-442e-a81f-1503708694d2-138x300.jpg 138w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/stjosephsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/8813\/2025\/09\/22073611\/2cc55270-382b-442e-a81f-1503708694d2.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very proud to share the achievements of Ava, who recently competed in the North Ayrshire Development Meet with the Stranraer Stingrays Swimming Club. Competing in the 9 and under category, Ava showed determination, perseverance, and skill in every race. Her results were outstanding: That\u2019s four new personal bests, one gold medal, three silver medals, a top-six finish, and her very first \u2018Too Fast\u2019 keyring \u2013 a fantastic accomplishment!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/?p=5584\">Read More<\/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-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/stjosephsprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}