Scottish Schools’ Indoor Athletics Team

Here’s the Scottish Schools’ Indoor Athletics Team 2020. Well done to the athletes selected. This event brings the best of the best athletes from around the country together for a two day competition. This is a great opportunity to record a personal best as well as develop race experience and build motivation and confidence for the year ahead. We will be training after school at the Emirates one night a week in preparation for this but this is open to all pupils looking to improve in their favourite event not just the athletes selected for this competition.

Sports Review of the Year 2019

Merry Christmas to all the pupils, staff and the wider community. Thank you for the most memorable year of sport ever! Here’s the Sports Review of the Year 2019.

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Senior Scottish Cup Gold Section

Good luck to the Senior Netball Team who are playing Holyrood Secondary tomorrow night in the Scottish Cup Gold Section. This is the first time an SGG senior team has reached the Gold Section so the girls have already surpassed any other Senior Team so a big congratulations to them. 

S2 Netball League Fixture

Good luck to the S2 Netball Team for their 2nd fixture in the Glasgow Schools’ Netball League. They play Hyndland tomorrow night. 

Scottish Cup Netball Fixtures

Gold!!!

Gold!!!

Silver!!

Gold Section for our Seniors and S2/3 Netball Team and the Silver section for our S1s! This is absolutely amazing from our netball teams and the best Scottish Cup Performance from the School. The Seniors are against Holyrood Secondary (Glasgow) as are the S1s. The S2/3s are against Eastwood High School. Good luck to the teams in the knockout stages. 

PE Christmas Party 2019 🎄🎅

It’s that time of year again...CHRISTMAS! The PE department will again be hosting a christmas party open to all S1-6s and it’s on from 3.05-6.00pm. There will be netball, dodgeball, table tennis, fifa, food, sweets, juice and a christmas movie all for £5. Sign up at the PE Department.

S1 and S3/4 teams for Glasgow Schools’ League

Two fixtures in two days for the S1 and S3/4 Netball Teams in the Glasgow Schools’ League. Good luck to both teams in their first fixtures of the year. 

Glasgow Schools’ Netball League

Our S2s kick off the Glasgow Schools’ Netball League fixtures with a home fixture against Cleveden tomorrow. Captain Isla and the team are looking forward to kicking the season off. The S2s have been regulars at training since the turn of the year and having done brilliantly last year having reached the playoffs (and the Scottish bronze cup) the girls will be looking to repeat that performance or get to the final this year. 

More netball this week

The final Scottish Cup Netball group games take place this week. We have one home game against Balfron for our S2/3 team. Balfron will be formidable opponents as to will Holyrood who play our S1s on Thursday night. Good luck to both teams. 

Teams for games vs Greenfaulds

Greenfaulds are coming to SGG on Tuesday for some friendly games in the following sports: Table Tennis, Football and Netball. Here are the Football and Netball teams.

Cross-Country

The first cross-country if the year takes place on November 10th at Maryhill Park. Any age, any ability can take part in this fun event which is a great introduction to cross-country. Pupils are free to enter on the day at John Paul Secondary sports centre. If you need any spikes please come and see me beforehand to make sure you get some decent grip when running. 

Mr MacCorquodale

Scottish Cup Netball Fixtures

Good luck to the S1s who play their second fixture in the Scottish Cup tomorrow against High School of Glasgow. The S1s also play on Wednesday against Bishopbriggs as to do the Seniors. Good luck for your fixtures! 

S1s 

Iona

Rhona

Summer

Maria

Maebh

Nancy

Shonagh

Muireann

Meaghan

Mairead (wed)

Seniors

Ceitidh

Annabel

Leena

Abbey

Kerry

Seona

Millie

Chloe

Mirren

Eilidh Mic

Mr MacCorquodale’s Pupil of the block

A big congratulations to the following pupils for getting awarded pupil of the block for block 1

Netball Fixtures

There are lots of netball fixtures coming up after the holidays. There’s 5 games in the first week back! Here’s the teams for those fixtures! 

Glasgow Schools’ Netball League Fixtures

Here are this year’s Glasgow Schools’ Netball League Fixtures. We have three teams entered with our S1s, S2s and S3/4s doing battle against schools within Glasgow City. The S1 and S2 competition has been split with a group A and B with the winners and runners up of each league facing off in a playoff. The S3/4 team are into the Premier league Division again., with three other divisions SGG will be competing against the best Schools from around the city. Good luck to all our teams, I’m really looking forward to the season starting!

Scottish Schools’ Road Race

This year’s race took place in glorious sunshine at Pittencrief Park in Dunfermline. SGG has a small squad at this year’s event but all the athletes performed to their absolute best! Here are the results and some photos from the day:

Race 3 

Emilly Haldane 55th

Isla Thoms 67th

Race 4

Sandy Arthur 60th

Gabriel Murphy 85th

Race 6

Peggy-Nan Rodger 37th

Kerry Stewart 99th

Race 7

Finlay Robb 55th

Fionn Graham 56th

Race 8

Shona Carey 15th

Abigail Campbell 40th

A big congratulations to all our pupils for their results. A lot of our runners improved from last year’s performance and our the pupils who were competing for the first time in this event did amazingly well. 

S3 and Seniors in Scottish Cup action

Good luck to both squads for their Scottish Cup Games tomorrow against Jordanhill away: 

S1 Scottish Cup Netball Game

Congratulations to the following S1s who have been selected to represent the school in the Scottish Cup game against St Andrew’s High School. Selection has been difficult due to the amazing numbers of S1s we’ve been getting at training and the fantastic effort and enthusiasm each of the has put into their performances. Good luck to the team:

Nancy Atkinson-Beveridge

Rhona Macmillan

Shonagh Michie

Maebh MacKenzie

Summer MacKenzie

Maria Monk

Meghan Love

Mali Graham

Mairead Ansari

Muireann Dalton

Iona Bowman

S3 Scottish Cup Netball Game

Congratulations to the following S2&3s who have been selected to represent the school in the first game of the Scottish Netball pool matches against Bishopbriggs tomorrow. Over the last week, we have lost two of our starters Goal Shooter Kayleigh and starting GK (but also back up GS) Rhuna, we wish both girls a speedy recovery. Fortunately we have a very keen and able group of players who have the ability to play multiple positions. We are a small school and we have never had to reschedule a game for missing first team players and we're not going to start now. Injuries will happen to all of us at some point but fixtures have to be played and we will do our best on the day! We wish the team all the best for tomorrow's game:

S2
Emilly Haldane
Isla Thoms
Seona Brown
Orla MacAskill

S3
Olive Mojsiewicz
Sarah Bonad
Charlotte Cavanagh
Lucie Mills
Rhuibn Li

Scottish Schools' Road Race

Congratulations to the following pupils who have been selected to represent the school at the Scottish Schools' Road Race. The race takes place on Wednesday 2nd October in Dunfermline:

S1
Mali Graham

S2
Finlay Robb
Sandy Arthur
Gabriel Murphy
Emilly Haldane
Isla Thoms
Orla MacAskill

S3
Joel MacInnes

S4
Rico Marinovic
Flynn Butler
Fionn Graham
Peggy-Nan Rodger
Kerry Stewart

S5
Robaidh Whyte
Shona Carey
Abigail Campbell

Good luck to all our athletes.

Scottish Cup Netball Fixtures 2019/20

Here they are, the Scottish Cup Netball Fixtures for 2019/20. Each school is placed in a group. Depending on where you finish up in that group you go on to progress into the gold, silver or bronze knockout section of the competition. We’re up against some great opposition but that’s best for our development. This year we’re delighted to be able to host home matches for the first time ever! We have a brand new court and we’re looking forward to welcoming other schools to SGG! Good luck to all three of our teams.

Netball Season 2019-20

After an unprecedented netball season last year with two Glasgow League winning teams (S2 and S3/4), our S1s finishing with Scottish Silver Medals in the Bronze Cup and our under 14 team finishing third in the International Netball Tournament in Paris our attention now turns to this season.

I have entered the following teams in Scottish Cups:

S1
S3
Seniors

In addition to this we also have the following teams entered into the Glasgow Schools' Netball Leagues:

S1
S2
S3/4


It's going to be an absolutely jam packed year again of netball fixtures but this year for the first year in the history of the school we will be hosting home games at Sgoil Ghaidhlig Ghlaschu which is going to be fantastic! Not only that we get to practice week in week out on a full sized netball court which will make a massive difference for us. Other schools wont have realised that our successes over the years in netball has come by training in an assembly hall. The pupils deserve to have a fantastic home venue and that's exactly what we have now!

Extra Curricular Clubs 2019-20

Welcome back everybody!

Here are the clubs that we will be running before, during and after school for 2019-20. All S1-6 pupils are able to attend clubs throughout the week and we highly recommend that you attend clubs to compliment the work done in class, the clubs you attend in your own time and to add to your daily active minutes.

Sporting Highlights of the Year Video

Here's it is folks, the Glasgow Gaelic School Sports Review Video 2018-19! Thank you all so much for your incredible efforts in class and at the extra-curricular clubs! You guys have been awesome! Thank you also to all the parents/guardians, family members, staff, volunteers and coaches for your tireless efforts this year, we really appreciate it! Have a great summer everybody!

Athletics Events in the Summer

If you're looking to gain some more experience in athletics there's a number of competitions you can do between now and September. I highly recommend that you try these competitions to go and do new events or to record a new PB in your favourite one. You will, of course, need to enter the events yourself and bear in mind that the entries will close before the event takes place, there are no entries on the night:

Grangemouth Open Graded - 3rd July (entries close on Saturday)
http://www.online-entries.co.uk

Livingston Open Graded Meeting - 17th July
https://www.livingstonac.com

Glasgow Athletics Association Miler Meet - 26th July
http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/21439-18102-gaa-miler-meet

Ayrshire Track and Field Championships - Sunday, July 28th
http://www.online-entries.co.uk

Scottish National u13/u15/u20 Championships - 10th & 11th August -Grangemouth
http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/21019-18117-fpsg-scottishathletics-national-u13u15u20-championships-and-11th-august

Shettleston Harriers Open Graded Meeting (1)- Crownpoint - Tuesday 20th August
https://register.primoevents.com/ps/event/ShettlestonHarriersOpenGradedMeeting2019

Livingston Open Graded Meeting - Wednesday 21st August
https://www.livingstonac.com

Shettleston Harriers Open Graded Meeting (2)- Crownpoint - Tuesday 207h August
https://register.primoevents.com/ps/event/ShettlestonHarriersOpenGradedMeeting

Grangemouth Open Graded - 4th September
http://www.online-entries.co.uk

Lanarkshire Amateur Athletics Association Champs - 8th September
https://www.q-buster.co.uk/laaa-track-field-championships-2019

Good Luck!

More Sporting Success

A big congratulations to Ewan Campbell and Rhuna McCartney for becoming the school's first-ever medalists at the Glasgow Schools' Multi-Events Championships. Ewan took part in the Long Jump, 200m and Shot Putt. Rhuna took part in the High Jump, 200m and Shot Putt. Ewan finished with the Silver medal and Rhuna the bronze. This is really a terrific achievement for our two S1 pupils and very well deserved. Photos to follow soon.

Glasgow Schools' Athletics Championships Results

Our 2019 athletics team have absolutely smashed it!!! Two years ago we had our record medal haul of 15 medals at the Glasgow Schools' Athletics Championships, this year....18!!! Last year we got 3 golds, this year an unbelievable 9!! Half of our medals were golds! The two day championships was a fantastic advert for our school, the pupils put tons of effort in and were so supportive of each other across the age groups. It was pleasing to see a bigger pool of senior athletes turn out for the school, some for the last time after competing every year in these championships and their efforts were awarded with lots of medals, season bests and some PBs too. Andrew Carey and Shona Carey finished with Silvers in both the 1500m and 800m respectively. Eilidh McDougall an ever present medal winner again finished with a medal finishing 3rd in the 100m her 5th at these championships. Annabel MacDonald added to her 3 previous medals by finishing 3rd in the 300m, Iver Campbell has been excellent at the Glasgow Schools' Championships and again won Gold this time as a first year senior in the 100m and... Grace Thompson won Gold in the Senior Girls Discus throw. However I can't not talk about the S1s, never before have we had so many medals at the S1 age group. Isla Thoms became our first ever DOUBLE GOLD medalists winning the 100m and the Shot Putt. Ewan Campbell having just seen his brother win the 100m, stormed to victory in the S1 100m final making it the first family gold pairing at SGG. Maisie Hinks won silver in the Javelin too and her points for her silver added to Isla's medals resulted in the SGG S1 girls team finishing 3rd in the medal table which is a first for the school to finish in the top 3. It was really pleasing to see others perform exceptionally well, McKenzie Morrison reclaiming the title of Discus Champion making it two in a row for him. Lucie Mills was rewarded for all her hard work finishing 2nd in the 800m which is amazing considering she never qualified for the final last year. Millie Soutar threw a PB to win gold in the Shot Putt. Sophie Pettifor winning gold in the Discus to win back the title she won in S1. Sarah Bonad won the 200m final this year in an exciting race with the top two well clear of the field. Peggy-Nan Rodger has been a consistently good performer for the school in many an endurance event but had never won an individual medal until securing bronze in the 1500m. Ceitidh MacDonald won Silver in Javelin and Cameron Weir bronze to add to his medal last year in the same event. To add to this record haul we had more finalists than ever before but most importantly we saw 100% effort from all our competitors. Thank you to all our athletes for making the championships such a memorable occasion. 

McKenzie Morrison S2 Discus Gold

Ewan Campbell S1 100m Gold

Isla Thoms S1 100m Gold

Iver Campbell Senior Boys 100m Gold

Isla Thoms S1 Shot Putt Gold

Millie Soutar S3 Shot Putt Gold

Sophie Pettifor S3 Discus Gold

Sarah Bonad S2 200m Gold

+ Grace Thompson Senior Girls Discus

Silver Medal Winners

Shona Carey Senior Girls 800m Silver

Maisie Hinks S1 Javelin Silver

Lucie Mills S2 800m Silver

Ceitidh MacDonald S3 Javelin Silver

Andrew Carey Senior Boys 1500m Silver

Bronze Medal Winners

Peggy-Nan Rodger S3 1500m Bronze

Cameron Weir S2 Javelin Bronze

Eilidh McDougall Senior Girls 100m Bronze

Annabel MacDonald Senior Girls 300m Bronze

Glasgow Schools’ Athletics Multi Events

Here’s our team for the Glasgow Schools’ Multi Events which takes place at Hutcheson Grammar. This is the last sporting fixture for SGG of the year:

S1 G

Emilly Haldane

Rhuna McCartney

Isla Thoms

S1 B

Ewan Campbell

S2 B

McKenzie Morrison 

Calum Bryden

S3 B

Rico Marinovic

Good luck to all our competitors. 

S1-3 Athletics Championships Results

Our S1-3 pupils took part in the annual athletics championships again this year. The athletics championships calculates points based on their best result in each event so pupils have to run, jump and throw, their scores are then calculated against the rest of the year group with the top 10 best scores all getting points. After 6 events the totals have been calculate and here are your top 3 finishers:

S3 G

Gold - Peggy-Nan Rodger

Silver - Sophie Pettifor

Bronze - Abbey Hart

S3 B 

Gold - Rico Marinovic

Silver - Flynn Butler

Bronze - Aaron Green

S2 B 

Gold - Calum Bryden

Silver - McKenzie Morrison

Bronze - Sam Jarvis

S2 G

Gold - Olive Mojsiewicz

Silver - Lucie Mills

Bronze - Maebh Cronin

S1 B

Gold - Finlay Robb

Silver - Sandy Arthur

Bronze - Shaun Traynor

S1 G

Gold - Isla Thoms

Silver - Emilly Haldane

Bronze - Rhuna McCartney