Sunday, 12 November 2017

St Aloysius Road Relay

Good luck to our athletes who are competing at the St Aloysius Road Relay on Wednesday. The relay involves a runner from S1, S2, S3 and a senior Pupil on the final leg. The course is in our back garden, Kelvingrove Park. The course is very tough with the first half down hill before the sting in the tail of having to snake your way up the hill from the river Kelvin to the very top at the highest point of the park. Here are our teams: 

Girls
S1 Lucie Mills
S2 Peggy-Nan Rodger
S3 Shona Carey
Senior Amy Craig

Boys
S1 Isaac Birr
S2 Conner Walker 
S3 Robaidh Whyte 
Senior Daniel Moran

Good luck to both our teams! 

Glasgow Schools Swimming Finals

A big congratulations to all our Finalists at the Glasgow Schools Swimming Finals. Patrick, Isla, Amy and Saorla all made in through to their finals and so are in the top 6 in the City in their events!!! Isla has the outstanding performance of the day coming home with the Bronze medal in the 100m Breaststroke, what a fantastic achievement! 



Good luck to our 4 finailists who compete again at the Scottish Schools Swimming Time Trials this Monday. 

Saturday, 11 November 2017

Scottish Schools Netball

Our S3 team are through to the Gold Section of the Scottish Cup after beating Holyrood and Woodfarm in the regional league qualifiers. The girls have a tough game away to Strathaven in the next round. The senior Girls in their first venture into the competition had a very tough group draw with the current Gold Section Champions Hyndland and Bishopbriggs in the league. The girls lost both games but played well together for the first time in this newly assembled senior team. The girls are now into the Bronze section of the cup and have an away trip to Aboyne in the knock out stages. Good luck to both teams! 

Scottish Schools Indoor Rowing Championships

Good luck to Robyn S5 who competes in the Scottish Schools Indoor Rowing Championships next week at Ravenscraig. Robyn joined Rowing after getting talent spotted by a Great Britain Coach during his visit to the School. Since then she has given up being a GB level BMX rider to fully focus on Rowing. Good luck Robyn. 

Scottish Schools Climbing Championships

Congratulations to Caryn S4 who has booked her place into the Scottish Schools Climbing Championships Finals. Caryn qualified 5th best overall but she is looking forward to competing in the finals and will give it her best shot! Good luck Caryn! 

Monday, 9 October 2017

Scottish Schools Road Race




This year’s Scottish Schools Road Race took place round the cycle path round the Falkirk Stadium. The event attracted the who’s who of distance running, the fields were packed with top class runners. SGG sent over a large group of 16 runners for the event. There were some fantastic displays of running from the group across a number of the races. Performance of the day went to Peggy-Nan Rodger in the S2 Girls Race. She got out quickly and positioned herself well in the first few minutes of the race. Then when things settled down she went to work and had a very strong finish to come in the top 30!! Peggy-Nan finished in 28th place, up to 70 places higher up than last year. Well done! Shona Carey ran strongly in the S3/4 Girls race to finish in 40th position, Shona will have another year at this age group and its good to see her back at this event again this year with a much higher fitness level than previous years. Robaidh Whyte ran an absolute stormer in the S3/4 age group, again, like Shona he has another year at this. This could be Robaidh’s best performance to date, which is quite a statement considering the number of good performances he has put in over the last two and a bit years in athletics. It cements his place at the National level after achieving a top 40 in the Scottish Schools Cross-Country in March. Amy Craig finished 39th in the senior girls race. This is the third year Amy has competed at these championships and this is her best performance so far, she’s running much more strongly than she was this time last year. Daniel Moran finished 42nd in the senior Boys race, he described the race as “the fastest race I have ever done”. Daniel’s performance of top 50 is even more impressive when you consider that he was out for 6 weeks with a bronken collar bone and had only recently returned to running. The large number attending the Scottish Schools Championships is a credit to the pupils hard work. Although only two of our runners who competed were club athletes the whole group competed against established club runners from across the country and beat many of them! Well done to all the team.

Saturday, 7 October 2017

Senior Girls Scottish Schools Netball Game

Good luck to the following team who have been selected to play against Hyndland in the Scottish Cup. Hyndland are the current Scottish Schools Champions so this is a fantastic opportunity for the girls to play against the best team in the country:

Katrin Swan
Morag McKirdy (c)
Aimee Dunlop
Robyn Paton
Lauren McDougall
Jessica Gow
Margaret Driscoll
Catriona Macleod
Abigail Cavanagh

S2s Glasgow Schools Netball Game

Here’s the S2 Netball Team for the game against Hyndland next week. This will be the team’s first league game of the year, good luck to the following girls who have made the team: 

Rhianna Boyle
Orlagh Sweeney-Quinn
Kerry Stewart
Millie Soutar
Abbey Hart
Leena Jebbari 
Peggy-Nan Rodger
Ceitidh MacDonald


S3 Scottish Cup Netball Game

Here’s the team for the S3’s Scottish Cup Netball Game vs Holyrood. This is their last game in the group stages. Good luck to the girls: 

Peggy-Nan Rodger
Leena Jebbari
Kerry Stewart
Millie Soutar
Abbey Hart
Annabel MacDonald
Anna Horsburgh
Eilidh Michie
Iona Cochrane
Seona Macleod

Tuesday, 3 October 2017

U18 Football Team

Here's the squad for the u18's first game of the season vs St Thomas Aquinas. The boys play tomorrow afternoon, some will be playing straight after their 5km at the Scottish Schools Championships so it'll be a busy day for them! 

Good luck to the team:

Cameron Simpson 
Ruairidh Harris
Daniel Moran
Pol Monk 
Conal Whyte
Josh Soutar
Benji Campbell
Lewis MacLeod
Calum MacAulay
Luc Galanti
Andrew Carey
Callum Douglas
Angus McCorkindale


Glasgow Schools Swimming

Congratulations to Saorla Dickson, Isla MacDonald and Patrick Connor who all made it to finals at the Glasgow Schools Swimming Championships. A fantastic achievement from the three swimmers. To get through the heats is very difficult and they are now all in the top 6 in their events in Glasgow! Finals night is on October 30th, good luck to Saorla, Isla and Patrick. Also, all the best to Amy Craig who is a senior and will swim her events on finals night as senior pupils did not take part at the heats last week. 

Scottish Cup Football

Congratulations to the u16 football team who won the Schools first ever Scottish Cup football game. Although only the second year the school has entered the competition it's still a huge achievement for the school. The boys beat Campbletown in a close game 2-0 at Firhill. Scorers were Josh Hart and Kyle Gilles. The team will now play either Trinity High School from Rutherglen or All Saints Secondary in the next round. 

Scottish Schools XC

We have a small but mighty group of runners heading to the Scottish Schools XC at Hopetoun House Estste in Edinburgh tomorrow. We have a tea...