Tuesday 24 April 2018

SGG Athletics Championships 2018

Thankfully we’re on to athletics now, phew! This year we are again going to record your performances in all athletics events throughout the block. However, new for 2018, we are running an Athletics Championships which will involve 5 events: 200m, 800m, Discus, Shot Putt and High Jump. The top 10 performances for S1-3 girls and boys in each event will be given points: 10 points for 1st, all the way down to 1 point for 10th. The top 3 pupils who have accumulated the most points in all 5 events in each year group will be awarded a prize at prize giving. Times, distances and heights can be recorded both in class and at athletics. Remember athletics will be on both Mondays and Wednesdays after school in preparation for the Glasgow Schools And Scottish Schools Athletics Championships. Good luck! 

Mr MacCorquodale 
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Tuesday 10 April 2018

Glasgow Schools Netball Playoffs

Our S1 and S2 Netball Teams have made into the Glasgow League Playoffs. The playoffs this year are taking a semi final approach, the draw has been made and the fixtures are:

S1
Glasgow Gaelic vs Whitehill


S2 
Holyrood vs Glasgow Gaelic


The draws couldn’t be tougher with SGG coming up against the two best school netball teams in each of the year groups. Holyrood got all the way to the Semi Finals of the S2 Scottish Cup Gold Section and Whitehill won the Glasgow Schools Netball Tournament and have an excellent team. We will be giving it our best shot, the girls know the challenge that lies ahead. Both our teams netball had been progressiving well throughout the year they will be going into the games with confidence and will be competitive in both games. As the girls know it’s much better to play opponents who are equal to or better than your own level  than to play oppornents of a lesser skill or experience level. We’re looking forward to the games, they take place within the first two weeks of coming back to school. Good luck to both our teams:

S1
Lucie Mills
Sarah Bonad (c)
Kayleigh McPherson
Emma Close
Rhubin Li
Rebecca MacVicar
Olive Mojsiewicz 
Charlotte Cavanagh

S2 
Orlagh-Sweeney Quinn
Rhianna Boyle
Peggy-Nan Rodger
Kerry Stewart
Leena Jebbari 
Ceitidh MacDonald 
Millie Soutar
Abbey Hart (c)
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Scottish Schools Senior Netball

This year for the first time we’ve had a strong pool of senior Netball players from S4-6 so a team was entered into the Scottish Schools Cup for the first time at Senior Level. The girls qualified into the Bronze Cup and reached all the way to the Semi Finals! The girls played excellent netball throughout the rounds and were unlucky to lose out in the Semi Finals to the eventual winners James Gillespies. Our congratulations go to them for their victory. Having established a senior team this year it’s a very important step for the school and I hope that this will result in a senior team being entered into the competition each year from now on. We only lose one S6 pupil from the team for next year and we have a good group of S3s moving up to the Senior category next year. Congratulations to all the senior girls on a fantastic cup run:

Robyn Paton
Catriona Macleod
Jessica Gow
Margaret Driscoll
Eilidh McDougall 
Sarah MacKay
Abigail Cavanagh
Daisy Maguire
Aimee Dunlop
Morag McKirdy
Katrin Swan
Lauren McDougall

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Scottish Schools Cross Country Championships

The re-scheduled Scottish Schools Cross-Country Championships took place on March 17th at Hopetoun House Estate in South Queensferry. This was the Schools third year taking part in the championships. Last year we had two athletes (Peggy-Nan and Robaidh) break into the top 40 which was a massive achievement. This year the school raised the bar substanstionaly. Here’s a run down of all performances:

D Boys


Connor Walker 51st

C Girls


Shona Carey 18th
Peggy-Nan Rodger 54th
Beth Murray 72nd
Abbey Hart 76th
Kerry Stewart 79th

Girls Team 4th! 

C Boys


Rico Marinovic 60th

B Boys


Robaidh Whyte 35th
Alasdair Campbell 50th
Duncan MacKenzie 64th

A Girls


A Boys

Andre Carey 26th
David Comerford 29th

So what a difference a year makes. Last year two x top 40s, this year we had 5 including two top 20 finishes! Yet again fantastic running from talented pupils. The C Girls finishing 4th team in the country is amazing, well done to the girls. This eclipses our best team result from the B boys two years ago. More to come from SGG in years to come! 
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Monday 9 April 2018

Glasgow Schools Giant Heptathlon Champions!



Sgoil Ghaidhlig have done it again, we’ve won the Glasgow Schools Giant Heptathlon Championships. This the schools second victory in this event in 3 years. This year the team had only pupils who had experienced the event last year, Abbey and Peggy-Nan. The rest of the team were new to competition, some didn’t realise they were doing it until 5pm the day before. On the day the whole team performed exceptionally well. There was a tremendous display of teamwork and sportman and sportswomanship. There were 14 schools form Glasgow taking part and this year the competition was very, very tough. 97 male and female athletes took part in each event. We had a number or top 20 finishes in the individual events and a handful of podium finishes too!





Girls 600m
Abbey 1st
Peggy-Nan 2nd
Sarah 4th
Kerry 7th

Boys 600m
Rico 6th
Flynn 20th

Girls Javelin
Peggy-Nan 2nd
Kerry 7th
Ceitidh 20th

Boys Javelin
Cameron 4th
Robert 7th

Girls 60m Hurdles
Abbey 8th
Sarah 10th



Girls Shot Putt
Millie 3rd
Abbey 5th
Ceitidh 14th
Kerry 17th

Boys Shot Putt
Rico 7th

Girls Standing Long Jump
Millie 10th
Ceitidh 12th
Sarah 13th
Kerry 18th

Boys Standing Long Jump
Robert 11th
Cameron 17th

Girls 60m
Abbey 4th
Kerry 20th

Boys 60m 
Rico 20th




Girls Standing Triple Jump
Ceitidh 3rd
Kerry 8th
Abbey 9th

Boys Standing Triple Jump
Flynn 11th
Cameron 13th

After each person had completed the 7 individual events there was the 6 x 100m Relays which runs as a sepearate event. This is a very exciting competition which involves heats then finals. With only 6 lanes there was only room for 6 schools in the final. Unlike last year both the girls and the boys qualified for the final. However there was mixed results in the finals. Unfortunately a finishing runner from another school cut up one of our athletes on leg 4 which resulted in our runner falling and having to get back up to hand the baton over. This ended our fight for the medals but what a strength of character to get up and get on with it. All following runners ran their fastest to the line to catch up with the pack despite this unfortunate incident. A cruel lesson learnt but I was very impressed with how the boys responded to the set back. After some not so great changeovers in the heats the girls went into the final with motivation to make things right! This year’s girls final had some very quick individuals and teams, SGG included. The changeovers were better in the final but going into the final leg we were sitting in 3rd place a second down on the top 2. A tall order for any athlete to come back from this in a 100m on a tight bend. Enter Sarah Bonad, our talented S1 pupil. Sarah took the baton from Peggy-Nan and used the first 50m to get on the shoulder of the top 2 Schools, she then went past them and won the race for SGG by a couple of strides. What a finish to top off a great team performance.

Most importantly on the day the 14 members of the team displayed enthusiasm, effort, teamwork and a lot of hard work. Regardless of any results this is our biggest success. I hope that they can continue this as we move into the summer athletics season. 

A big congratulations to the team for becoming Glasgow Schools Champions! 






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Athletics Fixture List

For any pupils who have an interest in athletics I recommend that you use the next couple of months to try and improve your performances through both training and competition. Once all the netball fixtures have been completed over the next two weeks athletics will run after school on a Monday and Wednesday as well as the Friday morning. Training is open to all pupils S1-6 of any ability. If you would like to run, jump or throw then come along! Here’s recommendations of athletics competitions leading up to the Glasgow and Scottish Schools Championships at the beginning of June. Pupils should enter themselves and make their own way and back to and from the events. If you are not registered with a club then you put unattached under club name:

Sunday April 15/4/18 Kilmarnock Harriers Open Graded:


Wednesday 18:4/18 Livingston Open Graded (1)



Tuesday 24/4/18 Linwood/Inverclyde Open Graded (1)


Wednesday 2/5/18 Grangemouth Open Graded (1)


Sunday 13/5/18 West District Track & Field Championships 


Wednesday 23/5/18 Livingston Open Graded (2) 


Wednesday 30/5/18 Glasgow Athletics Association Sprint Gala (1)







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