Junior Great Scottish Run

On Saturday October 4th 20 pupils from the Glasgow Gaelic School met at George Square to take part in the Junior Great Scottish Run. The race is run round the streets of the merchant city and city centre. The popular race has two separate age categories (primary and secondary), the school had runners from both the Bun Sgoil and Ard Sgoil take part in both. Here are some of the runners before the race. 

The race itself was started by former Olympic, World and multiple record holder Haile Gebreselassie! All athletes from SGG finished the 2.5KM race. The top finishers from SGG (all in the top 50!!!) were: Robbie Whyte and Karys MacKay from the Bun Sgoil and Connal Whyte and Sarah MacKay from the Ard Sgoil. 

After the race the pupils met Ross Murdoch, gold medalist swimmer from the Commonwealth Games. Ross signed autographs and the pupils got some photos with him. 

The School was pleased to see such a large number of pupils take part in this fantastic event. This was in addition to the primary 5 pupils taking part in a separate event the previous day Friday 3rd Oct. 

As well as running the Junior Great Scottish run some of the secondary pupils managed to raise over £200 pounds for the PE department which will help with entries, travel, equipment and facility hire. The PE staff would like to thank all pupils for their contributions to the PE department.