Daibhidh

A huge congratulations to Daibhidh Kinnaird who finished 4th at the recent Scottish u17 Short Course Cross-Country Championships. Daibhidh a first year in the u17 event performed exceptionally well in this race against older more experienced runners. Good luck for the rest of the season! 

Scottish Cup Knockout Opponents

The netball Scotland draw for the knockout stages of the cup competitions have been made.

S1s are away to St Andrew’s High School Coatbridge on Thursday

S2s are at Home to Strathaven on Thursday 29th 

Seniors are at Home vs Stewarton before Friday 30th

Good luck to all our teams 

Scottish Cup Netball

So the group stages are complete, here are the results of our matches for our 3 Scottish Cup Netball Teams…

S1s

4 matches and 4 victories

S2s

3 matches and 3 victories 

Seniors 

3 matches and 3 victories

All three teams won their group stages and have qualified for the Cup Knockout Stages of the competition! Well done everyone! 

Sponsored 3km run!

A huge thank you to everyone who took part and to everyone who donated to the sponsored 3km run. We are all very proud of your efforts! I think you’ll agree the colour run was a huge success and a brilliant way to round off the fitness block! 

Here are some photo highlights…

Sponsored 3km Run

Tomorrow our whole school are doing a sponsored 3km run for cancer charities. For the first time ever this will be a colour run! We are really looking forward to having an afternoon of fun tomorrow! 

Scottish Cup Netball Fixtures

Here are our group fixtures for the Scottish Cup Netball Competition. A busy schedule but very much looking forward to it. Good luck to all players involved.

S1s and Senior Team for Scottish Cup

Congratulations to the following players who have been picked to represent the school in the first netball matches of the season. The Scottish Cup group stages kicks off the seniors on Monday 23rd September followed by the S1s on Tuesday 24th, good luck to both teams. Looking forward to competitive netball again! 

Scottish Cup Netball

The draw has been made and the group stages have been published. This year we are entering 3 teams into the Scottish Cup. We have 10 matches to play over the next 6 school weeks. All the best to the S1, S2 and Senior Teams this season. Our senior team will be made up of players from S3-5 which is an exciting prospect for this year and for next season. 

SGG Sports Clubs are back

Welcome back! I hope you had a fantastic summer holidays! Good news is we are starting our sports clubs tomorrow. We will be offering the following sports but we will be adding to this list as the term progresses! Looking forward to seeing you all at some of our clubs this week! 

Any questions just come down to PE 

U15 district netball select

Prior to this year 11 pupils from our school over the last 10 years have represented the Glasgow District Wildcat Netball Squad at the under 15 age group. This year 9 of our pupils were successful at trials for the squad! What an incredible achievement! Well done to:

Anais, Scarlett, Mairi, Meadhbh, Sophia H, Iris, Alexia, Maddie and Sophie. 

The fact that 5 of the players are first year u15s makes their achievement even more impressive. 

Scottish Schools Champions

Finlay and Gabriel had their official last day at SGG on Friday 31st May and with it their last athletics competition together. They were joined by Daibhidh to make up a brilliant team for the Scottish Schools 3 x 800m Championships. The boys ran fantastically well to finish with team gold and were awarded by a brand new trophy straight out the box. What a last day for our two senior pupils! The boys finished in a time of 6 minutes and 32 seconds. Well done guys!

Sports Awards 2024

Well what a year we had and what a great way to celebrate all the successes big and small at the sports awards 2024. Thank you to Mrs Campbell Thow, team PE, parent(s), guardian(s) but most of all the pupils for making 2023-24 an unforgettable year! We love our jobs!

Glasgow City State Schools Track and Field Champioships

Well we didn’t get the summer weather at Huntershill but it was definitely raining medals for Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu at the Glasgow City Council State Schools Track and Field Championships 2024. We had 24 pupils taking part and we came home with 37 medals in total. I can’t believe the number! That’s absolutely outstanding from the school - a new record and I believe that record of medals will not be broken by any school for a long time! 

SGG are Glasgow Schools’ XC State Champions 2024

Congratulations to the SGG team which for the second year in a row won the Glasgow City State Schools XC Championships! There was an abundance of medals won by he team both individually and collectively in the team event. But most importantly the level of effort by those selected to represent the school was absolutely amazing! 

Here are a list of our medal winners: 

S1/2 Girls 

Mairi 2nd

Alexia 3rd

Team Gold - Mairi, Aleixa, Thea and Sophia H 

S1/2 Boys

Michael 1st

Team Gold - Michael, Brodie, Oscar and Euan 

S3/4 Girls 

Team Silver - Eilidh, Olwen, Shreya and Marta

S3/4 Boys 

Angus 3rd

Team Gold silver - Angus, DR, Henry and Donald 

S5/6 Girls

Team Gold - Isobel, Isla, Maria and Eilidh T

S5/6 

Boys 

Finlay 1st

Gabriel 2nd

Oliver 3rd

Team gold - Finlay, Gabriel, Oliver and Christian 

S2-4s Win Glasgow Schools League

We entered two Glasgow Schools’ Netball League Competitions this year and we won them both. Our S2-4 Team won the S3/4 Glasgow Schools League Title. A second title in a row for Sophie, Iris, Alexia and Mairi who won the S1 trophy last year and a first trophy for our S3s and S4’s which is just rewards for such dedication and effort over the last few years! Well done team!

S1s win Glasgow Schools League Title

SGG have made he two in a row. Last years S1s won the Glasgow Schools League title and so have the current crop of S1s. A huge congratulations to the team for playing such amazing netball on finals night! Next year we are going to skip the S2 league and go into the S3/4 league instead.