Reporting live from Ravenscraig Stadium – Mhairi Moore, Tammi O’Connor, Rhiana Rankin and Jill McGowan

Notre Dame’s pupils were jumping for joy but wrapped up warm today for unseasonably chilly but typically Scottish weather for our annual School Sports Day.

Around 150 pupils from S1 to S3 travelled the short distance to Ravenscraig Sports centre, Greenock, to take part in a series of track and field events.

Nerves and adrenaline were running high as the young sprinters in each year group lined up against each other in a series of hard but fairly fought contests in front of assembled staff and pupils.

With S1’s heats completed, the S2 boys seemed particularly eager to get off the starting line and joined their S1 boys peers in the false start club.

Among those emerging victorious from the morning’s 100 metre sprinting heats, and set to race again in the afternoon’s final, were  S1 boys Liam Flynn, James Kinsella and Romell Marks; S2 boys Kayden Shearer and Bob Anderson; S2’s Sophie McAllister; and S3’s Lauryn Bell and Karys Hughes. Meanwhile the field events saw potential new school records broken in long jump for S3 girls, Sophie McGarrigle and Lorna McKloud, and for Sophie McGarrigle and Stephanie Turner in the high jump. Another potential record was broken in the high by Bob Anderson in S2.

S1’s Katie Johnson, who also runs with local club Greenock Glenpark Harriers, sprinted to victory in the girls 200m, while in S2 and S3 girls 200m races, Sophie McAllister and Lauryn Bell (respectively) triumphed. S3’s Gavin Houten, meanwhile, blasted through yet another school record to win the 200 metres for the boys, and he was joined by fellow 200m winners Kayden Shearer (S2) and James Kinsella (S1).

Other results saw Marc Griffin, S2, win the 800 metre final, while in the girls 800m, good sportsmanship was shown between Maddison Allan and Stephanie Turner. In S1, Matthew Millar won the 1500 metre race and Kian O’Brian leapt to victory in the Long Jump.

Well done to everyone who took part, got involved and helped out.