S1 Netball Team

Good luck to the S1 Netball Team who are playing their first Glasgow Schools League match vs Hillhead on Tuesday night. 

Glasgow Schools Netball Leagues

So the leagues and fixtures have been announced. This year we have more teams than ever taking part in the Glasgow Schools' Netball Leagues. Good luck to our S1, S2 and S3/4 Netball Teams for the coming year. Here are the groups for each of our entries:


S1

Glasgow Gaelic

Hillhead

Hyndland

Jordanhill

Shawlands

St Thomas Aquinas

S2

Glasgow Gaelic

Shawlands

St Thomas Aquinas

Whitehill

All Saints

S3/4

Holyrood A

Hyndland

Allsaints A

Glasgow Gaelic

Hillpark A

Jordanhill A

Shawlands

St Thomas Aquinas

Senior Netball Team

It’s great to see we have a Senior Netball Team again this year. Last year we entered a senior team into the Scottish Cup for the first time with the squad getting to the Semi Finals of the Bronze Section of the Cup. We lost only one of the girls from last years team. This year the girls have been given an extremely tough group in the preliminary stages of the Cup. As well as our friends from Shawlands the school faces three Netball Super Schools: Hyndland, Notre Dame and St Andrews High School. This is a great opportunity for the girls to play against some of the best Netballers in the country. We start this years Scottish Cup journey away to St Andrews. Here’s the list of players selected for the game:

Annabel MacDonald

Seona Macleod

Eilidh Michie

Jessica Gow

Robyn Paton

Grace Thompson

Morag McKirdy

Catriona Macleod

Aimee Dunlop

Margaret Driscoll 

S1 Netball Team

The first Netball fixture of the season takes place on Tuesday with our new S1s taking on Cleveden in a friendly. This will be the first competitive game for the S1s and the first time they’ve set foot on a full sized court. Congratulations to the girls for being picked for the team, it’s been a difficult selection due to the number of enthusiastic and hard working players:

Maisie Hinks

Seona Brown

Rhuna McCartney

Morgan MacLeod

Isla Thoms

Layla MacFadyen

Isabel Driscoll

Orla MacAskill 

Katie Dynes

Glasgow U18 Select

Congratulations to Daniel Moran, Benjamin Campbell (both S6) and Gilles O’Hanlon for being selected for the Glasgow U18 Select Football Team. We wish them well for the season ahead! 

Scottish Schools Road Race

The first of the Scottish Schools Athletics Events kicks off with the road race in Falkirk, October 3rd. This year we have the largest number of entries we’ve ever had at this event. Some of our athletes have experienced the event before but the vast majority of our runners taking part are doing so for the first time. Mr MacCorquodale has entered the following pupils for this event:

Race 1 - 1.5 miles

Emily Haldane

Ceitidh Cameron

Iris O’Connell

Seona Brown

Korin Weir-Stewart

Isla Thoms

Orla MacAskill

Rhuna McCartney

Race 2 - 1.5 miles

Calum Murray

Jonathon Dow

Gabriel Murphy

Race 3 - 1.5 miles

Lucie Mills

Sara Charnley

Race 4 - 1.5 miles

Adam Houstoun

Isaac Birr

Joel MacInnes

Finlay Robb

Race 6 - 2 miles

Annabel MacDonald

Shona Carey

Peggy-Nan Rodger

Beth Murray

Race 7 - 2.5 miles

Connor Walker

Fionn Graham

Rico Marinovic

Sean Kelly

David Robertson

Race 9 - 3 miles

Aidan Tittmar

Alasdair Campbell

Robaidh Whyte

Daniel Moran

David Comerford

Andrew Carey

Good luck to all the SGG runners!

Glasgow Schools Swimming Trials

The entries for the Glasgow Schools Swimming Trials are to be this Friday. If you have performed in a swimming competition(s) over the past 6 months bring your times for your two strongest events to Mr MacCorquodale.

The Netball Season is back!

The Netball Season is back! The School has the its largest number of entries ever into local and National Netball competitions. We now have 5 netball teams, entered either into the Glasgow Schools’ League or the Scottish Cup. The entries are as follows:

S1s

Glasgow Schools’ League and

Scottish Cup

S2s 

Glasgow Schools’ League

S3s 

Scottish Cup

S3/4

Glasgow Schools’ League

Senior (S4-6)

Scottish Cup

The Scottish Cup draw has just been announced today...so here’s the teams that we will face in the group stage:

S1s

Balfron

Holyrood 

S3s 

Notre Dame

Holyrood

St Thomas Aquinas

Balfron

Senior

Hyndland

Shawlands

Notre Dame

St Andrew’s High School

Get yourselves along to training! Monday’s and Friday’s after school until 4.20pm. All the above Scottish Cup group games have to be played by November 2nd. 

Senior Boys Football Team

Our Senior Boys team have a fixture against Rothsey away in the 2nd round of the Scottish Cup. 

The boys are also entered into the Glasgow Schools League, this is the first time we’ve had a senior team in the league so good luck! The boys have the following teams in the u18 Glasgow Schools League:

Knightswood

Hillhead

St Thomas Aquinas and 

Hyndland 

Extra-Curricular Clubs List

Pupils are welcome to attend any of the clubs available to them. Over 50% of the school attended our clubs last year which was amazing! Can we go better this year? !

Monday

Gym 8.10-8.50

S1/2 Dodgeball - Lunchtime 

S1-6 Netball - 3.05-4.20

Tuesday 

Gym 8.10-8.50

S3/4 Dodgeball - Lunchtime

S4-6 Volleyball - 3.55-5.00pm

S1-4 Girls Football - 3.55-5.00pm

Wednesday

Gym 8.10-8.50

S1-6 Netball - Lunchtime

S1/2 Boys Football - 3.05-4.15pm

S1-6 Athletics - 3.05-4.15pm

Thursday 

Gym 8.10-8.50

S1-6 Netball - Lunchtime

Senior Boys Football - 3.55-5.00pm

Friday

Running Club or Gym 8.15-8.50

S1-6 Netball - 3.05-4.20pm

S1/2 Table Tennis - 3.05-4.00pm