Sirens Netball Festival

14 of our S2 girls participated in the Sirens Netball Programme. This programme is like a cross between PE and PSE and takes part over 6 weeks. At the end of the 6 weeks there's a netball festival involving all the schools running the programme in the North West of the city. It was great seeing our pupils fully engage in the programme and performing exceptionally well in the netball festival. There were some special awards for our girls at the end of the festival too. Sophie Hoy was awarded attacker of the day, Lucca MacAuley was awarded Defender of the day and the main award for Most Valuable Player went to Grace Boland who was presented this trophy by Claire Maxwell the Scotland and Sirens Netball team captains! Claire presented the award to Grace because of her improvement from the beginning of the programme to her performance in the finals...Grace was on fire in the festival scoring many goals for her team! Well done to all our players, I hope you enjoyed the programme and the festival and I also hope to see more of you attending netball on a Monday and or Friday if you can make it.

Netball Playoffs Confirmed

Our S1 and S2 Netball Teams have played exceptionally well this year and have progressed through to the Netball playoffs. The playoffs include the top two teams from each of the two leagues in Glasgow. The draw has been made and I can confirm that the S1s will face St Andrews Secondary at home and the S2s will face Hillhead. Both games will be tough as they both performed very well in their group games. The S2 game will be taking place tomorrow night, no rest for the team as they are just back from the International tournament in Paris. The team will however be understrength as starting player Rhuibn is unavailable for this game so we will need everyone to come ready to play their best. Good luck to both teams in their quest to reach the finals.

Glasgow Schools' Giant Heptathlon Championships

Glasgow Schools' Giant Heptathlon Results

SGG are the Champions! Again! That's two in a row and three in five years for SGG. No school has won two years in a row before, what an achievement from our athletes. Our team accumulated 271 points out of a possible 280, an unprecedented total. This result is even more impressive considering the standard is getting harder and harder each year, this years was by far the most competitive.




Our team on the day were truly magnificent, regardless of the points total our team were enthusiastic, motivated, showed great team spirit and put their full effort in for each event. I cannot thank you enough for your efforts on the day.

Along the way there were some fantastic individual performances. Here's the highlights:

600m Girls
Lucie 1st
Sarah 2nd
Emilly 6th
Isla 8th
Olive 13th
Maebh 16th
Rhuna 23rd




Javelin
Sarah 13th
Isla 17th
Olive 19th
Lucie 20th

Hurdles
Lucie 2nd
Isla 8th
Olive 9th

Shot Putt
Isla 3rd
Sarah 6th
Olive 8th




Long Jump
Lucie 5th
Isla 6th
Olive 8th
Mabeh 10th
Sarah 17th

60m
Sarah 3rd
Isla 10th
Lucie 13th
Olive 14th




Triple Jump
Isla 6th
Sarah 7th
Lucie 8th
Rhuna 12th
Olive 14th

600m Boys
Calum 10th

Javelin
Calum 4th
McKenzie 9th
Cameron 19th

Hurdles
Calum 2nd
Cailean 17th




Shot Putt
McKenzie 3rd
Calum 4th
Cailean 8th
Cameron 9th
Sam 19th

Long Jump
Sam 19th

60m
Sam 1st
McKenzie 10th

Triple Jump
Sam 7th
Calum 13th
Cailean 14th
Cameron 16th

After each individual event our pupils went into the relays. This involves a 6 x 100m relay. Both our teams qualified for the final which in itself is quite an achievement since there were 17 teams taking part. Our girls went first and they were absolutely brilliant, winning in a record time and their victory means that is 5 years in a row which SGG girls have won the relay race at these Championships. Our boys had a very competitive final and it came down to a very close finish, with 3 teams neck and neck in the final change over but it was All Saints who came through to take the victory and SGG 2nd! What a performance from the boys it what was the most competitive boys relay ever at this competition.

I have to say I was really impressed with all our competitors, a big thank you and congratulations to you all for making history! 2 in a row and a record points total!!!

Scottish Cup Final

Our first ever Scottish Cup finalists put up an almighty effort against Monifieth in what was an exciting final match. The first quarter started a bit slow with both teams playing some good netball but nerves were really on show with lots of turnovers and the shooters on both teams not seeing much of the ball. The quarter score was only 3-3. Both teams then settled into some good netball, Monifieth had four very strong, physical and skilful players which made it difficult for our team to play however SGG rose to the occasion and started to find kinks in their armour as the game progressed. At half time SGG were up by 1 goal and by third quarter Monifieth were up by 1, this shows you how close the game was throughout. The game could have gone either way but in the end it was Monifieth who pulled ahead by 4 goals with no reply in the last two minutes of play which meant SGG had no time to get back in the game, well done to Monifieth who had a great team and deserved the victory 23-19. Our S1 team should be very proud of how they have played not only in the final but in all the knouckout games too. There is so much stacked against the school: smallest school in competition (190 girls in the school S1-6), no home court just an assembly hall to play on, most of the team had no prior experience of playing netball until secondary so the fact the girls have been able to quickly get up to this standard of play is absolutely amazing. I really don’t think the team and all our netball teams we have/had understand how impressive it is to be able to compete at local and national league level considering everything above. The S1 Monifieth team had district level players in their team going by a tweet made by Angus Netball. That’s incredible, that’s the same district level age group as our S3s are in. Only two of our players go to clubs and one of those only recently, this shows you hoe good the work all our Netballers our in at training week in week out. You could tell their girls had more experience with the game but our S1 girls pushed them all the way. Maisie and Layla both played well at GK and have shown on the court that they have learnt a lot this year. Isla was outstanding both at GD and C, she won the ball back for us numerous times resulting in more opportunities for our shooters. Emilly played another consistent game for us at WD, she very, very rarely loses the ball for us which is important in the mid court. Seona but in an almighty shift, she coped very well moving from C to GD after half time despite having never played GD before, ever. Isobel made some excellent passes to our shooters in the circle, her movement has improved dramatically this year and although she probably prefers to play GS we appreciate the excellent effort she puts in for us at WA. Orla our GA was up against the tallest player on the court but nothing is knew there, it always seems to be the GD as the apposition’s tallest player. Orla has been very impressive this year and in the final again worked very well with both Seona, Isobel and Rhuna. She’s played so well at GA that she has made that her own position in the last 4 games when others could possibly play there. Rhuna at GS played her best game ever for SGG she really was fantastic. Her timing and movement was the best it’s ever been, she should be proud at her performance as the opposition found it very challenging to find a way of stopping her playing. Well done girls, what a performance and what a cup run! It really was amazing, thank you all so much for your effort this year in the Scottish Cup. The whole school is proud of you for your Silver team National medals!

Netball Tournament

Congratulations to the S2 Netball Team who won all their games at the NW Schools’ Netball tournament m. This fun and friendly tournament allowed the girls some extra practice before their up and coming trip to Paris for an International Netball Festival. Well done girls.