It is with great pride that we announce that we have achieved our SportScotland Gold School Sport Award. The reward represents that our school has shown excellent practice across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an on-going commitment to increase young people’s opportunities and engagement in physical education, school sport and leadership and provide clear pathways to life-long participation in sport.

This has been a real team effort from everyone involved in our school community. We would particularly like to thank Faye Miekle our Active Schools Coordinator for all her hard work towards this award and wish her the best of luck in her new post. You have been an absolute star ⭐️ #goteamjimmy

And that, is a wrap for session 23/24. 🙌

Miss Raeburn hosted a fantastic end of term whole school event to promote Sport and Language with our partner school Sgoil na Coille Nuaidh. Pupils got to participate in numerous events like ‘toss the caber,’ ‘welly throwing’ and ‘highland dancing’ to name but a few. Additionally, the pupils from the Gaelic classes had prepared video tutorials of sporting phrases for all classes that could used at the games. The pupils had a truly Scottish sporting experience 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

At the end of last session we introduced the new end of term battle of Pupils V Teachers 👊 The pupils chose football last session and  won the prestigious trophy narrowly 4-3. This session the teachers were out for revenge and chose netball for this no holds barred duel. The height advantage certainly worked in their favour with a 15-2 rout of the pupils. It was an awesome event and everyone had so much fun 😂 Thanks to the secondary sports leaders for umpiring and coaching the pupil team. Good luck at University Amber and Daniel and thank you for all the volunteering you did with us this session 🙌

With 1 sleep to go we are all getting ready to have a well earned rest. I would to just like to draw your attention to some of the awards that have been given out recently.

PE Star of the Month  was Amy Jamieson in P7 who has demonstrated  outstanding team work and cooperation in PE.

Girls Football:

Players Player – Zoe Black P7

Managers Player – Amy Jamieson P7

We would like to thank Miss Patterson for all her hard work with the girls this year and wish her good luck in her new post; the progress the girls made this year was phenomenal 🙌

Boys Football :

Players Player – Arran Taylor P5 (This is the first time someone so young has won this award and is credit to the Sports Committee who requested that the school club age should be lowered to allow P5s to join).

Managers Player – Lucas Morrison P7

Eric Liddel Award: We had introduced this award last year to recognise outstanding achievement in sport both in and out of school and to celebrate 100 years of this great athletes legacy.  This year the award went to Emily Mathieson in P7. Emily has competed with the school in local and national competitions for football, netball, handball, athletics and cross country. Emily is also a competitive swimmer and won a silver medal for her age group in a national competition. A very worthy winner ⚽️🏐🏊🤾‍♀️🏅

A huge congratulations to all our winners 🙌

Unfortunately, our girls were defeated 2-0 in the final by a very well organised Shortlees team. It was a great occasion and we would like to thank the girls for their superb effort this year. We would also like to thank everyone that came along to support especially the ‘Jimmy Ultras’ who were in fine form! A special mention to Miss Patterson who was responsible for coaching the girls this year – good job.

Details for the final are all confirmed. If you are available, get yourself along and support the girls #monthejimmy ⚽️

Well done to Colton in P1 who was won the PE Star of the Month award for May. He has displayed outstanding effort during his Target Games block ⛳️He was presented his award from the Chair of the Sports Committee Lucas at assembly.

What a day! Our new look Sports Day continues to be a huge hit. This is our third year of the revamp, which allows pupils to be active for the duration. P4-7 have  four rotations  and P1-3 have three rotations. We would like to thank all our parent helpers, volunteers, sport leaders and staff for making this such an incredible experience for our young people. Everybody was just fantastic in their roles – a real team effort #goteamjimmy

The scores have been collated from upper and lower sports and was announced at assembly earlier today. Congratulations to the Blue House who have came out on top and will awarded the House Shield at Prize Giving.

Mr Shaw was extremely proud to win the Dads race lol 😂  although he is a bit sore today 🫣

Primary 6 have been enjoying a 4 week block of bowls at the Kay Park Bowling Club. We would like to thank the club for this experience and the parents that have supported the walking bus to and from the venue. We hope to at some of the 6s are able to go on and join the club also. 🙌

Both boys and girls p5-7 football clubs are now finished for the session, both clubs have been at full capacity (30/30) for the session.

Well done to al the girls who went along to the ‘girls only’ cricket club through May, provided by Kilmarnock Cricket Club, we hope that some of you enjoyed it enough to go along and join the club outside of school.

P3s are invited along to join the Multi-sports after school club for the month of June.

Additionally, the P6’s have now finished their Sports leader training and will be delivering a lunch time club to P1 and P2 on a Monday and Tuesday.

Good news for next term. We now have two parents recruited to deliver soft archery and Taekwondo as an after  school club. If you feel you could deliver a 4-week block in any sport please get in touch with Mr Shaw via the school office.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our pupils, staff, parents and volunteers for their help in delivering clubs in school. Awesome job!