Zach Ronan 3rd at Scottish Schools

Congratulations to Zach Ronan in S3 who was 3rd at the Scottish Schools Climbing Competition last weekend. The first Scottish Schools medal that the school has achieved in Sport. Zach has been working hard in climbing to improve each year and througholy deserves his medal. We look forward to seeing Zach progress in the sport as he now looks to his competition with the Glasgow Youth Squad.

Hamish Smith making great progress...

Hamish Smith Primary 6 has passed his Black Tag grading for Tae Kwon Do. He is now Red belt, black tags, one grading away from black belt! Congratulations Hamish! He attends Master Campbell’s  TaeKwonDo Class now held in the School on Tuesday evenings and has done for 5 years. Keep up the good work! 

 

Primary School Football Tournament

This is report from the Spòrs Ghlaschu football team who were involved in a primary school football tournament at Scotstoun last week. Well done to all the players and coaches.

Rinn an sgioba fìor mhath an diugh agus bha sinn gu math mi-fhortanach gun a bhith faighinn dhan chuairt dheireannach. 

The team played really well today and were very unfortunate not to get to the final.

 

Bhuannaich iad 3- 0 an aghaidh Cnoc Iordain B, 1-0 an aghaidh Naoimh Phol, 2-0 an aghaidh Coille-na-ridire agus a bha 1-1 le Hyndland  

They won 3-0 against Jordanhill B, 1-0 against St Paul’s, 2-0 against Knightswood and drew 1-1 with Hyndland (being 1-0 up until the last 15 secs)  

 

Sin e airson Scotstoun am bliadhna.  Taing dhan ar coidse Gordan a rithist.

That’s it for Scotstoun football this year.  Thanks again to our coach Gordon.

 

Le gach dùrachd

 

Brus

 

PS Dealbhan den sgioba na cois – Team pictures attached

 An sgioba an diugh:

 

Sorley Donald

Jackie Banfield

Lewis Anderson

Harry Craven

Jamie MacInnes

Kyle Gillies

Iver Campbell

Robaidh Whyte

Duncan Mackenzie

Reilly Carroll

John Higgins

Glasgow Netball Tournament

SGG entered 3 teams into the Glasgow Netball Tournament on Friday 13th March. This years tournament had 19 teams taking part across the S1-4 year groups which meant that each year group was split into two groups. One of the benefits of this was that the teams that weren't playing could go and support the SGG team that was playing.

The S1s had a difficult group with Holyrood, St Andrews and the winners of the tournament in October, St Thomas Aquinas all involved. The girls who have had only a few games since October competed well against the three schools. Their first game saw them take on Holyrood with them just missing out by one point 3-2. In their second game the played the champs St Thomas Aquinas who have been playing Scottish as well as Glasgow Schools competitions since October. The girls knew this would be a difficult game and came away with a 4-1 scoreline to St Thomas Aquinas. In the final game the girls lost 3-0 to St Andrews but played well and put in an impressive defensive display despite what the scoreline suggests. The final actually consisted of St Thomas Aquinas vs Holyrood both coming from this group showing how difficult qualification into the semis from out group was. Credit must be given to the girls who worked hard in each of their 3 games and are improving all the time. Girl of the Tournament was Eilidh McDougall at Centre.

The S2s had 4 games to play in their group stage. The first game saw the girls narrowly lose to Shawlands, 3-4. This game was close but the girls were always struggling to come back from 4-0 down early on as the games are only 10 mins long. In their 2nd game the girls started and played better and did well to draw 4-4 against Rosshall with Morag scoring an important point at the end of the game. In the third game the girls lost to an experienced St Andrews side 10-3 and immediately after this the girls played their final game narrowly defeating St Thomas Aquinas 2-0. Girl of the Tournament: Katrin Swan at Centre/Goal Defence.

The S3/4 played some great netball througout the day. Regardless whether they won or lost the netball they displayed both going forward and in defence was fantastic. They played All Saints first and seemed to settle quickly into the game winning 6-3. Their next game against Shawlands was a lot closer but they managed to pull off a 3-2 victory. Mr MacKay did some stats analysis for this game, Shawlands had 4 shots scoring 2 which is impressive. We had 17 shots and scored 3...this has given Mr MacCorquodale something to think about for training on a Tuesday and Thursday. Their final game SGG played the eventual champions Holyrood 1. The lost 12-2 but this wasn't due to a lack of effort, Holyrood at every age group are impressive at Netball and their S3/4 team are very good, the girls (and Mr MacCorquodale) learn a lot from playing against better teams. Due to the girls finishing 2nd in their group they qualified for the semi finals! This is even more impressive considering that a year ago they finished 11th out of 11 teams in the tournament. In the semi finals they played Holyrood 2 and lost 3-0 but played well throughout and did excellent in defence to keep the goal shooter and goal attack to a limited number of shots. The girls finished the tournament in 3rd place. Girls of the Tournament: Frances Driscoll Goal Defence and Mia Paton Goal Keeper.

Yet again the Glasgow Tournament was a great day out and the SGG girls showed that they are getting better all the time. We are starting to get more of our girls involved in clubs outside of school as well as having a consistently good numbers along to training on a Tuesday and Thursday evening. Keep up the good work!

Good Luck to Zach Ronan

Good luck to Zach Ronan who is competing for the school this weekend at the finals of the Scottish Schools Climbing Championships. Qualification was very challenging with many climbers across the country taking part. In addition to making the finals Zach had some good news this weekend past as he qualified for the South of Scotland Climbing Squad! Congratulations Zach, he will now go on to compete for the South of Scotland team in the British Championships. What a fantastic achievement!  We wish Zach all the best for his up and coming competitions.

Netball

Well done to the S1s who played a friendly against a newly formed John Paul Academy team last night. The team played well together with a couple of players trying out new positions for the first time. The score was SGG 15-1 with Caitlin Watt top goal scorer on the day. Eilidh McDougall played very strongly at Centre in only her second game there, she usually plays Goal Defence.

 

The S3/4 Team played their final fixture of their Glasgow Netball League. The team although playing their final game was a new team with 4 players playing their first game this year. With the majority of the S4s doing homework this opened up positions for the S3s to come in and get some competitive experience. The 4 new faces have been working hard in training and deserved their spot on the team. The team line up was:

Christy GK

Frances GD

Rebecca WD

Lauren C

Karen WA

Tammy GA

Yvonne GS

The girls played well throughout the game and won 17-2. Lauren was Girl of the Game for her combination of quick movement off the ball and her linking play from defence to attack. She also played the last quarter at GA and scored 5 points. 

Next focus is now Friday and the Glasgow Netball Tournament. The school is sending 3 teams along to the competition with S1, S2 and S3/4 teams. 

S1

Nairne Kennedy

Adanna McCann

Caitlin Watt

Erin Moran

Eilidh McDougall

Jessica Gow

Shannon Craw

Abigail Cavanagh

S2

Catriona MacLeod 

Margaret Driscoll

Sarah MacKay

Louise Templeton

Daisy Maguire 

Morag McKirdy

Niamh Robertson

Katrin Swan

Aimee Dunlop

S3/4

Lauren McDougall

Tamlin Dhinsa

Mia Paton

Mairi MacDonald 

Mairead MacLennan 

Charlotte Moock

Frances Driscoll 

Rosie Urquhart

SGG are Table Tennis Champions...again!

Congratulations to the two S1&2 boys Table Tennis Teams who won the the NW Table Tennis Competition last Friday. The teams were:

Team 1

Benjamin Campbell

Morgan Kelly

Aidan Dow

Lewis Conley

Team 2

Calum MacAulay

Calum Stewart

Daniel Moran

Josh Soutar

Team 1 were the overall winners and Team 2 did very well to finish in 3rd place, narrowly missing out on 2nd. This is the 2nd year in a row that Sgoil Ghaidhlig has won this competition so all the table tennis at break has been paying off. Well done to both teams! 

Glasgow Schools XC - More Photos

Glasgow Schools Cross Country Championships

A large contingent of 25 pupils from the secondary school descended on Pollok Park for the annual Glasgow Schools Cross Country Championships. 

 

The course is traditionally flat, fast but muddy and this year was no exception! 

The school had it's best ever performance at this years championships with 6 top 20 finishes and a remarkable 17 Top 50 places across 8 races. There was a real team spirit within the group with lots of encouragement was given to all those running. The effort put in by each individual for the result of the team was awesome. 

In the S1 Girls race Abigail was first home in 60th position with Johanna 63rd. Erin Houston ran the whole race practically with one shoe on and still managed to place 67th with a fantastic sprint finish over stones too. Shannon had an injury but got round the course for the team regardless to finish in 82nd. 

The S1 boys packed well to record the schools best ever team finish of 4th place! What a fantastic result for the boys. Lewis Conley was 23rd, Calum Stewart 26th, Findlay Dickson 28th, James Diamond 42nd and Alexander Buchan 45th! Great effort from all the boys to get in the top 50!

The S2 Girls went off next with Anna Murray finishing in the top half of the field in 50th. Morag McKirdy showed great determination to get round for the team cause in 67th with Niamh Robertson in 81st and Louise Templeton in 82nd position. The girls finished 9th team out of 19 so a big well done to them. 

The S2 Boys race was very exciting! Daniel Moran ran a very sensible mature race. After the first lap he was sitting 11th and came through over the last 600m to take 4th place and the highest ever position by a Gaelic School pupil. A fantastic effort from Daniel who dramatically improved on his 11th position last year. He was backed up strongly by: Calum Brown 21st, Benjamin  Campbell 40th and Aidan Dow 61st. The boys finished 6th Team. 

We only had two S3 girls in this years race but what a fantastic performance from both of them. Amy Craig finished a brilliant 9th. Rowan Moore had a phenomenal run to finish 29th! Last year she was 90th, what an improvement. Rowan has consistently been attending athletics on a Wednesday and this has shown in her performances over the country. 

In the S3 Boys race the school cross country champion Conall Whyte was first home in his highest ever placing of 14th! Luc Galanti who only got asked to run at 9.00am on the morning of the race as a replacement for Jacob finished a brilliant 19th! Lewis Dickson running his first ever Glasgow schools cross county champs did very well to finish 30th. Zach Ronan who had been ill recently did his best to get round and finish in 46th! The team finished in 6th position which is the best this year group has done by a long way. 

Charlotte Moock who placed 53rd last year finished 13th this year! She was in the S4 race and moved steadily through the field picking places off one by one. Charlotte should be very pleased with her performance and her improvement in the year. 

Fraser Watt was our sole representative in the S4 Boys race. The race was over 4.5km, 3 laps of the muddy course. Fraser did 3 consistent laps and came through to finish 13th position. This was 10 places higher than he finished last year.

Well done to all runners! Mr MacCorquodale and Mr MacKay are very pleased with your effort, attitude and behaviour! This was the best the school has ever done! On to next year now, looking forward to it already! 

More photos to come tomorrow! 

Netball Teams for Glasgow Netball Tournament

The following teams have been selected to represent the school at the Glasgow Netball Tournament on March 13th. Well done girls: 

S1 

Jessica

Caitlin

Shannon

Erin Mo

Adanna

Eilidh McD

Abigail 

S2

Daisy

Sarah

Morag

Katrin

Aimee

Margaret

Louise 

Niamh

S3/4

Tamlin

Lauren

Mia

Mairi

Mairead

Rosie

Frances

Charlotte

Netball vs John Paul

Next week the S3&4 girls Netball team play their final league match against John Paul Academy. The S1 girls are also playing that night but in a friendly match against a John Paul S1&2 combined team. 

S3/4 Team

Frances Driscoll

Lauren McDougall

Rebecca Smith

Karen MacDonald

Christy O'Hanlon

Yvonne Conley

Skye MacKenzie 

Tamlin Dhinsa 

S1 Team

Abigail Cavanagh

Shannon Craw

Adanna McCann

Erin Moran

Jessica Gow

Caitlin Watt

Eilidh McDougall

Inter House Netball

Congratulations to Hiort who won the Inter House Netball Tournament. Scarp finished in 2nd place with Miughlaigh 3rd and Ronaigh 4th. The tournament was open for any S1-6 girls and the teams were put organised by the S4 Sports Leaders. Here's a picture of the winning team. 

Team Scarp

Ronaigh

Miughlaigh in action...

Giant Heptathlon

Congratulations to the seven girls and boys from S1&2 who competed at the Glasgow Schools Giant Heptathlon event at the Emirates Arena. The event attracted 16 schools from Glasgow with each pupil competing individually in 7 events and with each individual results counting towards the team score. The events were: Long Jump, 60m, Standing Triple Jump, 60m Hurdles, Overhead Shot, Javelin and 600m.

The event was very well run and the Gaelic School throughout the day had very impressive results, including: Eilidh McDougall 2nd fastest overall in the 60m sprint and 5th fastest in the 600m. Erin Moran was 4th fastest in the 60m Sprint and 2nd fastest in the 600m. What makes these performances even more impressive is that these times were out of 111 athletes and both girls are still in S1. 

The highlight of the day were the relay races. The girls went first and comfortably won their heat to make it through to the final. The boys narowley missed out but came up against some teams who had slick baton change overs. The girls were nervous going into the final and it was David vs many Goliaths with the Gaelic School up against Holyrood and St Andrews to name a couple of schools involved in the final race. We stuck with the same order for the final. The girls started with Erin Houston who gave us a good solid start coming in about 4th at a changeover, Louisa kept us right in the fight handing to Abigail on leg 3 who had to fight to cut into lane one, she passed to Eilidh Campbell who kept us firmly in fourth position. Louise Templeton got the baton in 4th and handed over about 5th after a nervous changeover to Erin Moran. Erin got the baton and just went, she flew down the back straight of the track to hand over neck and neck for the lead with Holyrood. Eilidh McDougall got the baton on the final leg and powered round the final bend to win the Giant Heptathlon relay and take home the trophy. Well done girls! 

The school finished in a credible 7th position overall, this was a great achievement considering it was our first experience of indoor athletics. Next year we know what to expect and look to go a couple of places better.