Abbie MacNeil wins the European Highland Dance Championships

A big congratulations to Abbie MacNeil who won the European Highland Dancing Championships recently over in Ireland. This win is probably Abbie's greatest achievement to date along with her 2nd place at the World's last year. The European Championship win is even more impressive considering she had to beat the World Champion to do it. Abbie had to compete in 4 different dances and placed first in all 4. A huge congratulations to Abbie, everyone at the school wishes you all the best for future events.

Spòrs Ghlaschu Cùrsa TOPs/TOPs course

A chàirdean (Beurla gu h-ìosal/English below)

Tha Spòrs Ghlaschu a' toirt an cothrom dhuibh cùrsa trèanaidh a dhèanamh ann an TOPs air Diciadain an 17mh den Ghiblean eadar 6 & 9:30 aig Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu. Tron chùrsa TOPs thathar ag ionnsachadh mar a chuirear seiseanan spòrs ri chèile airson clann sa bhun-sgoil, tro geamaichean is eile.Tha fàilte air duine sam bith aig a bheil Gàidhlig (de dh'ìre sam bith) agus a tha aig aois 16+ pàirt a ghabhail sa chùrsa seo.

Tha barrachd fiosrachadh mun chùrsa an luib am post-d seo, agus mar a chithear, tha an cùrsa seo an asgaidh. Mar sin ma tha uidh agaibh ann an bhith an lathair airson an trèanadh seo, nach cuir sibh fios gu sporsghlaschu@gmail.com RO 10mh GIBLEAN.

Bhithinn fada nur comainn nam b' urrainn dhuibh seo a sgaoileadh do dhaoine sam bith aig am biodh uidh sa chùrsa seo, agus ma tha barrachd fios a dhìth oirbh, tha fàilte oirbh fios a chur thugam cuideachd.

Le deagh dhùrachd

Josie

Co-ordanaiche
Spòrs Ghlaschu

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Dear All

Spòrs Ghlaschu are running a TOPs training course on Wednesday 17th April, between 6 & 9:30 at the Glasgow Gaelic School. Through this course you learn how to structure and run simple games sessions for primary school children. We welcome any Gàidhlig speakers (of any level) of age 16+ to take part in this course.

Additional information is attached to this e-mail, and as you will see, this course is free of charge.

If you are interested in taking part in this training, I would appreciate if you could send an e-mail to sporsghlaschu@gmail.com by 10th APRIL.

I would also appreciate if you could circulate this e-mail to anyone who may have an interest in this training, and if you require any further information, please do no hesitiate to contact me.

Many Thanks

Josie

Co-ordinator
Spòrs Ghlaschu

Rugby Success for Anna Smith S2

Congratulations to Anna Smith who was part of the winning girls rugby team in the final of the Scottish Schools Rugby Cup Final.

Anna plays tight-head prop for Hillhead/Jordanhill Girls Under 15 (otherwise known as the mini Hill Jills). The competition they won was the Brewin Dolphin U15 Girls Shield on Friday against The Nicolson Institute Stornoway Isle of Lewis.
http://www.scottishrugby.org/community/content/view/5685/1133/

The Brewin Dolphin Girls’ Cup is open to schools, rugby clubs and also to composite teams and is played at two age levels – under-15 and under-18.

Teams move through the Girls’ Cup competition by playing qualifying tournaments in their local region, followed by a seeded knock-out contest that matches teams up with competition on an appropriate level, in either the Cup, Shield or Bowl competition.

The senior Hillhead-Jordanhill women's side are currently top of Premier 1 and have a substantial number of current and former internationalists in the side, several of whom are involved in the girls' training sessions which are held on Wednesday nights at Hughenden.

6 Nations RBS trophy visits SGG

The pupils and teachers at SGG got the chance to hold the 6 Nations RBS trophy last week. Here's Headteacher Mrs McComb with the trophy.

Photos from Glasgow School's Cross Country

Well done to all pupils who took part in the cross country championships last month.

mneTV sponsor Moilidh!

Congratulations to Moilidh who has recently secured a place at the National Youth Orchestra of Senior Orchestra. Moilidh is a phenomenally talent girl who works very hard and fully deserves her place. Moilidh has been also been given sponsorship by mneTV which will help her to attend orchestra events and gain more experience. We wish Moilidh all the best for her future, she's an inspiration to everyone at SGG and she's proof that the hard work pays off.

To read more about Moilidh and her music, please follow the link:

www.mnetv.tv/newsroom/newsStory.aspx?id=1159

Interhouse Girls Football Competition

There will be an Inter House 4 a-side Girls Football Competition on Monday the 11th March from 3pm - 4 pm. The games will be S1 - 3 separate from S4 - S6 games. The sign up sheet is in the foyer, put the names of the players in your team down by the end of Friday.

S1-3 Boys Football Training

Mr Crichton Music will be running football training for all S1-3 boys on Thursday afternoons after school. This is a great opportunity for you to develop your skills from an great coach.

Netball Club

Girls Netball (S1-6) will be on every Tuesday night 4-5pm! Come along and give it a try. If you are in the girls football Team you can come on alternate weeks.

Glasgow Schools Cross Country Championships

SGG are sending a strong squad of cross country runners to the Glasgow Schools event which takes place on the 22nd February.

S1
Conal Whyte
Ludovic Howison
Zach Ronan
Lewis Gilmour
Andrew Grossart
Luc Galanti

S2
Samuel Dow
Fraser Watt
Eoghann Gibson
Rory Connelly
Aidan Fitzpartick
Finlay Benton

S3
Fionn Whyte
Fergus O'Hanlon
Alexander McNeil
Fraser Brown
Thomas Kennedy
Lewis Gibson
Stephen Mallon

S1 Girls
Anna NicGriogair
Rowan Moore
Lauren MacDougall
Karen MacDonald
Jessica Owen

S2 Girls
Mairi MacDonald
Rosie Urquhart
Mia Paton
Eilidh Miller
Mairead MacLennan

Glasgow Gaelic School Cross Country Championships

Congratulations to all S1-3 pupils who took part in the Glasgow Gaelic School Cross Country Championships. The event was held last Monday in Bellahouston Park in what could be described as horrendous conditions. The races were run together due to driving wind and rain and all 57 pupils did well to compete the race.

There was a very exciting race in the Boys event who ran two laps, Fionn Whyte was closely followed by Samuel Down in the first of two laps, the gap to 3rd was 50m and it was Fergus O'Hanlon who was looking strong at he half way point. When the runners were coming into the final 200m, it was still the same order however Fionn was working very hard to hold off Samuel who was appling pressure. Fergus had ran a very well judged race and sprinted past Samuel into 2nd but ran out of time to catch Fionn who held off for the win.


Boys 
1st Fionn Whyte 
2nd Fergus O'Hanlon
3rd Samuel Down 


In the Girls race after the first of two laps Mairi and Rosie both S2 were running together and looking comfortable well ahead of the pack. Mairi pushed hard to create a gap between her and Rosie in the 2nd lap all the way to the finish. Anna NicGriogair S1 did very well to finish in 3rd place, beating all the other girls in the race and even stopping to help Rebecca find her glasses which had flown off in the wind.


Girls
1st Mairi MacDonald  
2nd Rosie Urquhart 
3rd Anna NicGriogair 

Thanks to all those teachers and pupils who helped out on the day to make the event a success.

Glasgow Gaels Shinty Success

The Glasgow Gaels held the First Shinty National Qualifiers on the 3rd February in the Bellahouston Sports Day. We had one team in p7 competition and two in the p5. It was a fantastic day off hints with the winners qualifying for Finals in Fort William on 2nd March. The p7 had already qualified but they still can second in their competition. The p5a team won their competition and now qualify. The p5b team played fantastic considering a lot of them it was their first time in a tournament and with players they hadn't played with. All players got certificates for taking part and the winners and runners up got medals. P5a also won a cup.


For the first time very Glasgow Gaels have a team in both competitions at Fort William. We are very proud of the players and they will go and give their best at Fort William.


Elaine Michie


Photos below are the full P5 team and the P7 team minus Gillies and Lewis