Monday, 17 December 2012

S1 Trip To Riverside Museum




Chaidh na sgoilearan air AS1 air turas gu Taigh Tasgaidh Riverside air an Abhainn Chluaidh. Fhuair iad bùth-obrach agus bha aca ri rannsachadh agus sgrùdadh a dhèanamh am broinn an Taigh Tasgaidh. Fhuair iad cothrom feuchainn rudan orra mar clogaid an tàthadair agus dh'ionnsaich iad facail agus smuaintean ùra ceangailte ris an Abhainn Chluaidh. Chòrd an fhiosrachadh ri na sgoilearan agus tha barrachd eòlas ionadail aca de Ghlaschu a-nis.

Social Subjects (History Department) S1 went on a trip to the Riverside Museum on the River Clyde on Thursday 13th of December. They were given a workshop where they had to investigate and research the information in the Museum. This of course included trying out items such as the welder's mask and learning new words and ideas connected to the Clyde. The pupils enjoyed their experience of Glasgow and have a lot more knowledge of the school locality now. 



Friday, 7 December 2012

Sports Video of the Week

Buzzer beater!


You're the Ref!

Here's the answers from last week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/nov/29/rafael-benitez-chelsea?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

And here's this weeks referring debates:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/dec/06/you-are-the-ref-fellaini

Friday, 30 November 2012

St Andrew's Day 1872

Exactly 140 years ago today marked the start of International Football. The venue, Glasgow! Not far from the school location at the West of Scotland Cricket ground in Partick. The match Scotland vs England! The Scotland team was made up of entirely Queens Park players on the day. Read more here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/scotland/9712246/Roddy-Forsyth-the-first-ever-football-international-was-indeed-the-start-of-something-big.html

Sports Video of the Week

Okay so we're going to try a new feature of posting a sports video each week, you won't be able to watch them at school but hopefully you will be able to access them at home.

The first entry is a fantastic football goal. We have seen a lot of great goals scored in the champions league and international friendlies over the last fortnight, here is one from the Europa Leage:


You are the Ref!

Have a go at referring these football situations from the guardian sport, what would you do? Answers will appear here next week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/nov/29/rafael-benitez-chelsea#_


S4 Revision

To all S4 pupils who have their prelims coming up please use the wikispace for revision for your test. Here you will be able to access the presentations from the classroom sessions. Alternatively you can ask Mr MacKay a question on twitter if you're stuck: @MrMacKayPE good luck!

Santa Dash 2012

The 2012 Glasgow Santa Dash will take place on Sunday 9th December at George Square. The distance of the race is 5km and it is £15 for adults and £5 for children which includes the Santa suit! Please see: http://glasgow.gov.uk/en/residents/parks_outdoors/activities/santadash.htm for more information. Ho ho ho!

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Inter House Competitions

So last week saw some interesting battles in the inter house dodgeball lunchtime competitions. Overall Scarp were the winners after winning two out of the three events competitions. A big well done to all those who came along and took part, we had over half the school participating!

This week we have Strictly Come Ceilidh on Friday. There was a fantastic number of pupils rehearsing today at Lunchtime. There is still time for you to get involved, you can come along and practice at lunchtimes in the dance studio....teachers are welcome too!

In the coming weeks we will have more Inter House Events so keep checking the notice board in the foyer for information.

Thursday, 15 November 2012

Sports Blog

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Thanks for staying up to date with the Gaelic School.

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Girls Football


The Girls Football team is now upand running. Can anyone interested please come along to training on Mondays after school. Any ability level can come along and have some fun playing football with your friends and we can build up our skill.
 

S1 Flashdance....




This is our S1 Dodgeball class breaking ingot a flashdance - GANGYAM STYLE!


Monday, 8 October 2012

Abbie MacNeil Champion of Champions

Abbie MacNeil S4 has had a tremendous year on the Highland Dancing circuit. On Sunday Abbie won the Solway Championships in Dumfries adding to the multiple titles she has won this year. In the Solway Championships Abbie came in 1st place in 12 different dances and was judged to be have been best dancer in each of those 12 events by all 3 judges. Abbie has recently been announced the Champion of Champions because of her overall successes this year. Below you can see the list of Abbie's achievements in 2012:

22nd Oct 2011 Kingdom of Fife Championship Glenwood High School, Scotland
17th Mar 2012 Central Scotland Championship Cleveden Secondary School, Scotland
29th Apr 2012 City of Aberdeen Championship Aberdeen Music Hall, Scotland
12th May 2012 Ayrshire & Galloway Championship St. Josephs Chapel Hall, Scotland
13th May 2012 West of Scotland Championship Gourock Park Playing Fields, Scotland
27th May 2012 Lanimer Championship Lanark Grammar School, Scotland
2nd Jun 2012 Strathclyde Championship Hannah Park, Scotland
10th Jun 2012 City of Glasgow Championship Paisley Town Hall, Scotland
29th Jul 2012 City of Inverness Championship Charleston Academy, Scotland
7th Oct 2012 Solway Championships Dumfries High School, Scotland

Congratulations Abbie, we wish you all the best for your future competitions.

Friday, 5 October 2012

Abair deagh thoiseachadh dha Na Gaidheil

Bhuannaich sgioba ball-coise c6-7 a chiad dà gheama aca ann an Liga Cairdeil Taobh an Iar Ghlaschu aig Scotstoun an raoir.

3 – 2 an aghaidh Whiteinch agus 2 – 0 an aghaidh Caldercuilt.

Bha an sgioba laidir, cruaidh agus cruthachail. Is matha rin sibh - David, Morgan, Josh, Ewan, Lachlan, Logan, Gillies, Calum, Lewis, Domhnall Iain

Cum Oirbh a Bhalaichaibh!

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Shinty Update from Spòrs Ghlaschu

Just a quick update from the shinty section for September 2012.

Results
During September the SGG Shinty Club has continued it success.
On 7 September 21 Teams from all over Scotland attended a one day tournament in Milngavie.
Glasgow Gaelic School Under 8 team were unbeatable on the day and comfortably won the Margaret Ross Cup beating
Strathkelvin 6 -2 in the Final. Not to be out done the under 10 Team also enjoyed a great day and went on beat
St Columbas - Oban 5-2 in hard fought final winning the John MacLean Shield.
On 30 September the first round of the 2012/13 South of Scotland Leagues started and a big Well Done must go to
10 new players from P1,2& 3 who played there first games for the Club.

Training
The last outdoor training will be on Monday 8 October.
Indoor training will commence on Monday 22 October at the 3 Gym Halls at Bellahouston Academy
6pm-7pm - New Starts & Development training
7pm - 8pm - Under 10s12s &14s

Cheilidh Fund Raising Dance
To buy new strips for the young new starts, the club are holding a fund raising Cheildh at the SPRA Club Lochinch Pollok Park on Friday 5 October 2012 8 till Late. All welcome, and some of the Funds raised on the night will be donated to Mary's Meals……

Moran Taing
Graeme on behalf of the Shinty Committee

School Concert

A big well done to all pupils who performed last night at the school concert! A variety of musical talent was on display and the audience were very appreciative of the live entertainment and the efforts of the pupils and staff.

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Cameron Kirkwood to Represent Scotland



Congratulations to Cameron Kirkwood who has gained selection for the Scotland Golf Team in an International match against England. Cameron has had a fantastic year and has thoroughly deserved his call up to the National Team. Cameron's match is at Pannal Golf Club in Harrogate at the weekend and we wish him the best of luck in this event. Here are just some of Cameron's achievements in 2012:


2012 – Represented Scotland in the Under 16, 4 Nations Development Quadrangular Tournament at Templepatrick (Scotland won the tournament).

2012 – Represented Scotland at the Nations Cup (under 16) at Trevose Golf Club (finished 10th place overall in the singles tournament).

2012 – Represented Scotland (under 16) in friendly match against France at Strathaven Golf Club (won tie).

2012 – Representing Scotland (under 16) against England at Pannal Golf Club (Oct 7th).

2012 – Finished 10th place in the Scottish Boys Championship (under 18) at Cardross Golf Club.

2012 – Selected for the Scottish Boys Development Squad (under 18).

2012 – 27th in the Order of Merit (under 18).

2012 – Gents Club Champion – Bearsden Golf Club.


Good Luck to Cameron West S1

Congratulations to Cameron West who has been selected for the Scotland Tae Kwon Do Team. Cameron will compete at the World Cup in Brighton this week. We wish Cameron the best of luck for his training and competitions.

Glasgow Schools Swimming Prelims

Yesterday the Glasgow Swimming Prelims were held at Whitehill Pool. The Glasgow Gaelic School had eight pupils competing in various events:

Lewis Dickson 50m Butterfly and 50m Backstroke
Amy Craig 50m Breaststroke
Iain Campbell 50m Freestyle
Fraser Watt 50m Freestyle
Shannon Beattie Lifesaving and 100m Breaststroke
Shannon McShane Lifesaving and 100m Freestyle
Rachael Lyons 100m Freestyle
Anna Matheson 100m Freestyle

All pupils did very well in their event competitions. The quality of swimming was very high, competing against very experienced swimmers with the majority involved in swimming clubs.

Although it was a Prelim for the Finals night in a few weeks some Finals were held yesterday. Shannon Beattie and Shannon McShane got a bronze medal in the Lifesaving event. Also Lewis Dickson performed very well to place in the top 6 in the backstroke and butterfly and qualify for the finals at the end of October.

Well done to all who took part.

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Shinty News from Spors Ghlaschu...




Two Saturdays SGG pupils competed in the Milngavie and Bearsden Shinty Tournament which included teams from all over the south of Scotland.

The primary/secondary Development team lifted the cup and won all games except one in which they drew.  It was a fantastic display of shinty and the players all played very well taking home a medal each for their efforts. 

The P5 team won their section too and lifted the plate, they also won most of their matches, with only one draw. Again all the players played brillantly and showed superior skill and stamina against the southern teams.

The P7 team did extremely well against the other teams and won most of their matches and got all the way to the semi finals only to be pipped to the finals by one goal.  

Well done to all pupils involved. 

If you are interested in playing Shinty please see details below on the training times and location. It would be great to have more pupils involved.

Training Details

Sgoil Ghaidhlig Ghlaschu Camanachd: 

Glasgow Gaels Training sessions are on monday nights at Bellahouston Academy
p1-p3 6-7pm
p4 up 7-8 pm

For info contact Elaine Michie

New Olympic Photos and Reports Added

Additional photos and pupil trip reports have been added to the original Olympics post which was posted last month. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click older posts, you will then find a host of new photos from the various events the pupils went to and some trip reports written by pupils of SGG.

Friday, 21 September 2012

Angus Jenkins Cycles for Charity



A big well done to Angus Jenkins S5 who completed the Pedal for Scotland Glasgow to Edinburgh 47mile cycle on 9th September 2012. It took Angus just under 4hrs and he has collected an impressive £210 to date for the Maggies Charity.


His just giving page is still open for anyone wanting to sponsor him please follow the link: www.justgiving.com/Angus-Jenkins16

Monday, 17 September 2012

Consairt An Fhoghair

An Invitation to Consairt An Fhoghair:

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SGG Pupils to Perform at Prestigious Music Event


'Trinity College London' has  announced its first ever set of Achievers' Showcase' events which are to take place in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow. Pupils from SGG have been invited to perform at the Glasgow event along with pupils form other schools in the Strathclyde area. They have been asked to perform some clarsach music at the opening of the Glasgow showcase which will be held in Sherbrooke St Gilbert's Church on Friday, 26th October 2012 at 7.00pm.  N.B. Pupils from SGG will begin their performance at 6.40pm

One of our pupils, Moilidh NicGriogair, has been invited to perform on her violin as one of the 'high achievers' gaining a pass with distinction in five separate exams on clarsach, piano and violin.

If you wish to attend this event please contact Ms McEachen as the organisers require numbers.


Ball-Coise nan Gillean 11 Sultain

Clas 1
SGG 3 v St Margarets 1 (Luc Galanti 2 and Ludovik)
SGG 3 v 1 Rosshall 1 (Cameron West 2, Ludovik)

Class 2/3
Lost 2-1 (Iain Campbell)
Lost 3-1 (Kane McCloy)

Congratulations to Finlay Beaton

Finlay Beaton S2 competed on Saturday 8/9 at the 2012 Taekwondo British Championships in Manchester. For a third year in a row he took a bronze medal at the highest level of taekwondo in the UK, showing great consistency as he was very unlucky in the semi final to lose on judges decision.
His target now is to get selected to represent Team GB at next years Cadet European Championships
in June and to get this he will have to compete at several competitions in Europe.

Good luck with all your training and competitions Finlay.

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Meal do Naidheachd Alex!

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Meal do Naidheachd Alex!

Meal do naidheachd Alex airson ruith anns an Bank of Scotland Junior Great Scottish Run.   Ghabh Alex pairt comhla ri brathair mòr Tod, a’ Mathair agus a’ Seanmhair  ann a bhiodh a’ruith aon mhìle ann am meadhon baile Ghlaschu air Disathairne, a’ chiad là den t-Sultain.  Abair fhein gu bheil Alex proiseil a coimhead leis am bonn aice!

Congratulations Alex!

Congratulations to Alex Browning for completing the Bank of Scotland Junior Great Scottish Run!  Alex, along with big brother Tod, Mum and Gran ran the Family mile on Saturday 1 September.  Alex proudly shows her medal. 


Thursday, 6 September 2012

Abbie MacNeil at the World Highland Dancing Championships

Congratulations Abbie! 2nd in the World!!!

Glasgow Gaelic Primary Success at Great Scottish Junior Run

The Primary 5 class who attended the Great Scottish Junior Run last Friday had a very successful day indeed. All pupils enjoyed themselves at the event, competing against a large number of pupils from other schools. The class had some excellent results:

Lochlan Harris 1st
Robaidh Whyte 2nd
Sean Kelly 4th
Jackie Banfield 9th
Annabell MacDonald 10th

Congratulations to Conall Whyte S1, Samuel Dow S2 and Siobhan Grady S2 who competed at the 3km event on the Saturday.

Spòrs Glasgow Meeting (AGM)


Coinneamh Spòrs Ghlaschu
Disathairne 15 An t-Sultain, 10m – 12f
Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu

Spòrs Glasgow Meeting (AGM)
Saturday 15th September, 10am – 12pm
Glasgow Gaelic School

Spòrs Ghlaschu was set up last year by parents at the Glasgow Gaelic School to promote Sport through Gaelic and Gaelic through Sport in Glasgow.

We have sponsored a range of sports-related coaching courses, TOPS, first aid, child protection, Early Touches (football), Bikeability (teaching off and on-road cycling skills) and a variety of shinty courses.  Volunteer coaches from the club provide football training, Bikeability-based cycling tuition and shinty coaching is provided by the Glasgow Gaelic School’s shinty club, which is an affiliate member. 

We plan to provide more sports coaching and training opportunities, especially to younger coaches in the coming year.  Development of coaching skills in Gaelic is another priority.

None of this can happen without enthusiastic volunteer coaches and organizers.  If you want to help please come along to this meeting.  

Airson tuilleadh fiosrachaidh cur post-d gu bruce.whyte@ntlworld.com neo fòn 07758 722532 / For further information and to confirm attendance email bruce.whyte@ntlworld.com or text/phone 07758 722532.

Friday, 31 August 2012

Glasgow Gaelic Primary Pupils at the Great Scottish Run

Good luck to all the P5 Glasgow Gaelic Primary Pupils who are competing at the Great Scottish Junior Run today. We're looking forward to hearing how they got on!

Thursday, 30 August 2012

Abbie MacNeil 2nd at the World Highland Dancing Championships

Abbie MacNeil S4 competed at the World Highland Dancing Championships at the Cowall Highland Games last weekend. Abbie performed exceptionally well finishing 2nd overall in the Juvenile Section. Abbie finished in the top 3 in the Highland Fling, Sword Dance and the Reel competitions which allowed her to secure a fantastic 2nd place. Well done Abbie! 

Full Results can be seen here:

http://www.toeandheel.com/judges_results/world_results_2012.pdf

Ball-coise air Dihaoine/ Ball-coise on Friday

Feasgar math,

Bidh ball-coise ann aig a phàirc bheag air an 31 An Lunasdal (3 - 5 feasgar) – Football will be on at the wee pitch on Friday 31st August. Kick-off 3pm. Finish 5-ish.
Se seo airson cloinn ann clas 4 gu 7 sa Bhun-sgoil agus S1 san Àrd-sgoil – This open to children in class 4 to 7 in the Bun-sgoil and S1 in the Àrd-Sgoil

Please make sure your child has their own strip, boots, shin pads and water.

Le gach dùrachd

Bruce
Spòrs Ghlaschu

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Paralympics 2012

The Paralympics 2012 gets underway with the opening ceremony tonight. The sporting action then starts tomorrow with Swimming, Track Cycling and Basketball just a few of the sports taking place on day one of the competition. Good luck to all British athletes taking part.

Follow the action here:

http://paralympics.channel4.com/

Monday, 27 August 2012

Glasgow Gaelic School and Drumchapel High School - London Olympics 2012



















































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Olympics 2012 

Air an 29mh den t-iuchar chaidh sgoilearann bho sgoil gaidhlig glaschu agus drumchaple air bus a bha dol gu lunnain. Bha sinn a dol a faicinn da geama ball-coise and ceithir geama “beach volley-ball”. Bha sinn uile air bhioran airson na geamaichean. 

Nuair a ranaig sinn ann an lunnain, fhuair sinn air an “tube” gu “Wembley stadium train station”. Choisich sinn gu Wembley gle shlaodach air chuil mar 600 daoine eile. Nuair a fhuair sinn a steachd bha daoine a coimhead anns na bagaichean again airson rudan cunartach ach cha robh rud sam bith mar sin again. Bha Wembley cho mor agus bha torr rum ann. Bha an ball-coise sgoineil, bha Senegal agus Uruguay a cluich an toisheach agus Bhuannaich Senegal 2-0, a nuair sin bha team GB agus UAE a cluich. Bhuannich team GB 3-1, bha an geama sin sgoineil! An deaghaidh na geamanan chaidh sinn air ais air an “tube” gu eton collage airson an oidhche.

An ath latha chaidh sinn airson bracaist, as deaghaidh sin chaidh sin air ais air am bus airson a dol dhan “beach volley-ball”, bha an lath cho breagha, bha an grian a mach agus bha an ad air cuideach. Choimhead sinn air 4 geamanan. Agus a nuair sin chaidh sin air ais air a bhus dhachaigh L
Bha na Olympics sgoineal, bha an iarmailit iongatach. Bha torr spors againn agus chan urainn sinn feitheabh gus an dig Rio.

Le Iona Edgar agus Nicola Campbell !! 


 London 2012

It was 3 o'clock in the morning and time to wake up for London, living in Airdrie isn't pleasant at most times but when we have to get up this early in order to get to Drumchapel for 5:15 seeing as we leave at 5:30, it isn't pleasant at all.

Myself, Lyndsey and my mum had been driving for 1 hour and 45 minutes already after a series of unhelpful directions causing us to circle the most of Glasgow before finally getting to Drumchapel.

Although we were last on the bus we still got the best seats up the back with the most legroom.Result. Seeing as we were going to be on the bus for 10 hours we made ourselves at home, on the way there we mostly just ate, slept and watched films, all in a days work for the typical Glaswegian teenager.

We arrived in London and straight away were split in to our groups and headed for Wembley stadium to watch Uruguay Vs. Senegal and Team GB Vs. United Arab Emirates, brilliant start to the trip with Senegal winning 2-0 and Team GB winning 3-1.

Everyone left the venue and managed to push trough the crowds to get to our meeting point. After we all met we got the underground and our guide Mae met us to take us to our bus to Eton college.

After a "comfy" nights sleep in Eton we woke early to get ready for breakfast and get the bus to Horse Guards Parade with a quick stop to Buckingham palace and Hyde park. After leaving Horse Guards Parade we got on the bus and repeated our 10 hour journey back home, we all definitely deserved a long lie the next day.

But overall we both agree that the trip was brilliant and a once in a lifetime chance experience!

Chloe Jenkins & Lyndsey Stark 


 
The Olympics 

My trip to the London 2012 Olympics was a memory I will never forget. I could not let my chance to see some of the top athletes in the world slip past me and I am glad to have had the opportunity to see some of them play there sport. It started with a five o’clock bus ride on a Sunday morning Drumchapel high school. Everyone was tired but exited at the same time as this was a once in a lifetime opportunity. As we left everyone fell asleep until the stop point, we had 45 minutes to go and get some food and after that it was straight to London. 

We arrived at a train station and got the train to Wembley Park. It was one of the busiest places I have ever been to but there was an amazing atmosphere about it. We ended up getting some food there as well and then we entered Wembley. Our seats were down on one of the corner flags so we were close to the action. Our first football game was Senegal vs. Uruguay and in that game were some of the world’s best footballers. Uruguay had some good chances but in the end Senegal outplayed them by winning two goals to nil and then there was team GB vs. UAE (United Arab Emirates). That was an amazing game of football with team GB winning three goals to nil and after that it was getting out of Wembley. It was unbelievably busy but we all made it to the meeting point and then we all got safely onto the train back to our train station that we started at earlier on in the day. 

After that it was a trip on to the bus and to our accommodation which was Eaton College in Windsor. We arrived there at about half past twelve at night which was a long day for all of us. When we got to our rooms everyone just fell asleep. The next morning we were up at five o’clock and straight to breakfast in the college. We all had bacon, sausage, egg and beans which was nice. Then we were back on the bus to the train station again so we could head to the beach volleyball. 

We arrived in the middle of London and did some sightseeing before the volleyball started, we seen Buckingham palace and the royal mile, then we headed to the venue. When we got in, again, there was a brilliant atmosphere, everybody was having a good time and having a laugh. The beach volleyball lasted about three and a half hours and after that we did some more sightseeing. We saw Big Ben and the London Eye before heading on the underground one last time to get the train back to the coach. Before we left for Glasgow we went to a McDonald’s which was good and after that we were homeward bound. We arrived back in Glasgow at eleven o’clock that night and after all that I was shattered but I am so happy that I got to see the London 2012 games and I will never forget them.


Stuart McDermott

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