Toryglen Girls Christmas Cup

Well done to the three girls teams who competed at the Toryglen Girls Christmas Cup. 

The girls are playing football to a higher standard and this was shown in the tournament with all teams scoring more goals and recording more wins than last year. 

Well done to Mr MacKay and the girls, keep up the good work!

S1 Netball vs John Paul Academy

The S1 girls had their first experience of playing a full game of 7s Netball in a 36 minute game vs John Paul Academy on Tuesday December 16th. 

The team had a few late call offs due to various commitments. This resulted in a very last minute call up for Louise Templeton S2 who thankfully was able to play despite only being asked 15 minutes before departure. Louise was playing football at the Toryglen Xmas cup that day too so we appreciate her helping out the S1s who were a player short. 

The team lined up with: Captain Jessica GK, Erin Mo GD, Adanna WD, Shannon C, Louise WA, Caitlin GA, Abigail GS and Iona Sub. 

The girls were up against a mix team of S1-3 pupils from John Paul Academy. The game throughout was tight with both teams taking some time to familiarise themselves with rules and positional responsibilities. The game was very competitive and it was decided by only one point with the game finishing John Paul 5-6 Glasgow Gaelic.

Adanna who was playing her very first game of netball played very well at Wing Defence. Erin Moran at Goal Defence and Shannan Craw at Centre showed no signs of fatigue despite also being at Toryglen for football that day. Jessica was strong at Goal Keeper and made sure she competed for every ball. Louise playing in an unfamiliar position of wing attack linked well with Caitlin and Abigail. Abigail finished as top goal scorer with 3 points thanks to good work alongside Caitlin at GA. Iona came on at Goal Shooter and got into good shooting positions. Well done girls on a good performance against strong opposition. 

Mr MacCorquodale would like to encourage all the S1s to attend training on a Tuesday or Thursday after the new year. There are two friendlies coming up in January against experienced opponents so it will be important to attend training in the lead up to these games. 

Higher PE

The Higher PE class enjoyed a trip to the Scotstoun badminton academy today for a double period of PE. 

The group of 10 boys have been working hard for the last 5 weeks to improve their badminton performance. Keep up the good work! 

Toryglen Boys Christmas Cup

4 Teams from the Gaelic school competed in the Toryglen Christmas cup today. The games are 4 a side with no goalies! Congratulations to Gaelic School C who finished 3rd in the S3/4 league!

Well done to: Kashel, Morgan, Connal, Benjamin, Daniel, Adam and Lewis! Third out of 11 teams is a great result from the boys. 

S2 Netball vs Bannerman

Well done to the S2 Netball Team who played against Bannerman High School on Tuesday 9/12/14. The girls travelled to the game without Sarah MacKay and Robyn Paton who also missed the game against Hillhead but welcomed the return of Daisy. Eight players made the journey to Bannerman and with only one sub the girls new it was going to be a physically demanding game against more experienced opponents.

Six of the eight girls had their first experience of Netball at the Glasgow tournament in March 2014. Since then more of the S2s have started playing the game this year and the team have had some new additions to the team like Niamh Robertson who was playing in only her second game against Bannerman and Katrin Swan who has only been playing since October. Great to see enthusiasm for the sport amongst the S2s.

The girls started the game slowly and were clearly playing with nerves. Bannerman were the far superior team in the first and second quarter, making most of their chances resulting in the half time score 7-5 to Bannerman.

After half time the girls started playing much better, there was a complete re-structure of line up apart from Morag who stayed Goal Attack. In the second half the girls were playing with more confidence and started making better pass choices and their defending had improved. Aimee changed roles from GD to GS which ultimately changed the game for Glasgow Gaelic. Aimee and Morag started playing well together and were linking up well with Katrin (C) and Daisy (WA) creating a lot of chances in the thrid and fourth quarter. Niamh (WD), Catriona (GD) and Margaret (GK) were fully focussed on competing for every ball but had a difficult task with the Bannerman team who were excellent on the attack. The girls in the final quarter of the game played great and doubled their points score from the previous 3 quarters with the final score being Bannerman 10-16 Glasgow Gaelic. Well done girls.

The girls and Mr MacCorquodale would like to wish Sarah and Robyn a speedy recovery back to full fitness and look forward to having them back in the team sometime soon. 

S1 boys team head to Toryglen for Christmas Cup

The following boys have been selected to represent the school at the Toryglen Indoor Christmas Cup. This event takes place tomorrow 12/12/14. Good luck to all boys taking part.

S1

Aidan Tittmar

Michael MacDonald

Alexander Buchan

Gillies O’Hanlon

Lachlann Brady

Dominic Ferrier

Christopher Glasgow

Calum MacAulay

Lewis Conley

 

 

S2

Ewan Michie

David Comerford

Cameron Simpson

Angus McCorkindale

Daniel Moran

Calum Brown

Josh Soutar

Andrew Carey

Benjamin Campbell

Ruairidh Harris

 

S3

Andrew Grossart

Pol Monk

Findlay Crawford

Kashel Mayne

Jacob Connelly

Cammy West

S1 Netball vs Jordanhill

Well done to the three s1 netball teams who competed against Jordanhill at netball. The majority of the girls had their first experience of the game. 9 girls will now go on to play against John Paul Academy next week for a game of full court 7s. Good luck girls. 

Netball Leaders Course

Four pupils from the secondary completed their Netball leaders course run by Glasgow Netball. The course took place at the Glasgow Gaelic School along with pupils from secondary's across the city. Mia Paton, Mairi MacDonald, Eilidh Miller and Frances Driscoll completed the course. All four girls completed their level 1 sports leadership award last year and are part of the netball team so we hope to have them taking netball training for younger pupils soon. Well done girls. 

Sports Leadership

We are running the Sports Leadership course again this year with the S3 year group. Last week we had all 60 primary 4s come to the hall for a Fitness class lead by the sports leaders on Monday and Friday. 

This was the first time our sports leaders had taken a class for younger pupils! After the new year the S3s will get more experience of leadership roles for both indoor and outdoor activities.

S1 Team to face John Paul Academy

S1 Netball Team to face John Paul Academy on 16/12

Well done to the following girls who have been selected to represent the school in only their second game of netball. This time the game will be 7s and it will be away to John Paul Academy.