On Friday the 18th of September we all crept along to the Atrium to find a surprise waiting for us! The surprise was that Netherlee had been awarded a Gold award for all the sporting opportunities in our school. This is a very difficult award to get!

We had a special visitor come to the school to present us this award. His name was Mr Kenny Brown and he was from Sports Scotland. He gave the school a flag to show that we are now a Gold school.

Our other special visitor was called Susan and she plays hockey for Scotland. She had played hockey for Scotland at the recent Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and came to school wearing the tracksuit she wore during the games!  She said she felt proud to be able to represent her country.

Mrs Macleod and Mrs Callaghan had organised and taught the whole school a cheer leading routine. We all took part in this routine to the song ‘Shake it Off’ by Taylor Swift. It was hard work and it was a very warm day too!

Once we had received our award the whole school took part in a walking bus around the school pitch. We listened to the song ‘500 Miles’ by the Proclaimers and we all enjoyed singing along to it!