Scottish Schools Relays Teams

Good luck to the following 4 x 400m Relay teams who are taking part in the Scottish Schools Championships this Friday:

Girls 4 x 400m

Eilidh McDougall

Chloe Forrest

Erin Moran

Annabel Macadonald

Boys 4 x 400m

Lewis Grimmer

Calum Stewart 

Aidan Tittmar

Jacob Connelly

The event starts at 2pm so we will meet at Hutcheson Grammar at 12.50pm. Pupils on study leave should make their own way there and back. Maxwell Park train station is right beside the School so handy to get into town for connecting bus or train. Mr MacCorquodale will be leaving the school at 12.30pm. If you need a lift please contact the school by Thursday. The girls 4 x 400m team are into a straight final, the boys have heats and a final depending on the number of entries competing on the day. Pupils allowed to make their own way home after their race. 

Glasgow Schools Netball League Final

Congratulations to the S1 Netball Team for making it through to the Glasgow Schools Netball League Final. The game vs Holyrood is being played on Thursday. The girls have been making great progress with their Netball throughout the year and getting to the final is a massive achievement. Good luck to the team:

Rebecca MacVicar

Olive Mojsiewicz

Rhuibn Li

Sarah Bonad (c)

Lucie Mills

Charlotte Cavanagh

Kayleigh McPherson

SGG Athletics Championships 2018

Thankfully we’re on to athletics now, phew! This year we are again going to record your performances in all athletics events throughout the block. However, new for 2018, we are running an Athletics Championships which will involve 5 events: 200m, 800m, Discus, Shot Putt and High Jump. The top 10 performances for S1-3 girls and boys in each event will be given points: 10 points for 1st, all the way down to 1 point for 10th. The top 3 pupils who have accumulated the most points in all 5 events in each year group will be awarded a prize at prize giving. Times, distances and heights can be recorded both in class and at athletics. Remember athletics will be on both Mondays and Wednesdays after school in preparation for the Glasgow Schools And Scottish Schools Athletics Championships. Good luck! 

Mr MacCorquodale 

Glasgow Schools Netball Playoffs

Our S1 and S2 Netball Teams have made into the Glasgow League Playoffs. The playoffs this year are taking a semi final approach, the draw has been made and the fixtures are:

S1

Glasgow Gaelic vs Whitehill

S2 

Holyrood vs Glasgow Gaelic

The draws couldn’t be tougher with SGG coming up against the two best school netball teams in each of the year groups. Holyrood got all the way to the Semi Finals of the S2 Scottish Cup Gold Section and Whitehill won the Glasgow Schools Netball Tournament and have an excellent team. We will be giving it our best shot, the girls know the challenge that lies ahead. Both our teams netball had been progressiving well throughout the year they will be going into the games with confidence and will be competitive in both games. As the girls know it’s much better to play opponents who are equal to or better than your own level  than to play oppornents of a lesser skill or experience level. We’re looking forward to the games, they take place within the first two weeks of coming back to school. Good luck to both our teams:

S1

Lucie Mills

Sarah Bonad (c)

Kayleigh McPherson

Emma Close

Rhubin Li

Rebecca MacVicar

Olive Mojsiewicz 

Charlotte Cavanagh

S2 

Orlagh-Sweeney Quinn

Rhianna Boyle

Peggy-Nan Rodger

Kerry Stewart

Leena Jebbari 

Ceitidh MacDonald 

Millie Soutar

Abbey Hart (c)

Scottish Schools Senior Netball

This year for the first time we’ve had a strong pool of senior Netball players from S4-6 so a team was entered into the Scottish Schools Cup for the first time at Senior Level. The girls qualified into the Bronze Cup and reached all the way to the Semi Finals! The girls played excellent netball throughout the rounds and were unlucky to lose out in the Semi Finals to the eventual winners James Gillespies. Our congratulations go to them for their victory. Having established a senior team this year it’s a very important step for the school and I hope that this will result in a senior team being entered into the competition each year from now on. We only lose one S6 pupil from the team for next year and we have a good group of S3s moving up to the Senior category next year. Congratulations to all the senior girls on a fantastic cup run:

Robyn Paton

Catriona Macleod

Jessica Gow

Margaret Driscoll

Eilidh McDougall 

Sarah MacKay

Abigail Cavanagh

Daisy Maguire

Aimee Dunlop

Morag McKirdy

Katrin Swan

Lauren McDougall

Scottish Schools Cross Country Championships

The re-scheduled Scottish Schools Cross-Country Championships took place on March 17th at Hopetoun House Estate in South Queensferry. This was the Schools third year taking part in the championships. Last year we had two athletes (Peggy-Nan and Robaidh) break into the top 40 which was a massive achievement. This year the school raised the bar substanstionaly. Here’s a run down of all performances:

D Boys

Connor Walker 51st

C Girls

Shona Carey 18th

Peggy-Nan Rodger 54th

Beth Murray 72nd

Abbey Hart 76th

Kerry Stewart 79th

Girls Team 4th! 

C Boys

Rico Marinovic 60th

B Boys

Robaidh Whyte 35th

Alasdair Campbell 50th

Duncan MacKenzie 64th

A Girls

A Boys

Andre Carey 26th

David Comerford 29th

So what a difference a year makes. Last year two x top 40s, this year we had 5 including two top 20 finishes! Yet again fantastic running from talented pupils. The C Girls finishing 4th team in the country is amazing, well done to the girls. This eclipses our best team result from the B boys two years ago. More to come from SGG in years to come! 

Glasgow Schools Giant Heptathlon Champions!

Sgoil Ghaidhlig have done it again, we’ve won the Glasgow Schools Giant Heptathlon Championships. This the schools second victory in this event in 3 years. This year the team had only pupils who had experienced the event last year, Abbey and Peggy-Nan. The rest of the team were new to competition, some didn’t realise they were doing it until 5pm the day before. On the day the whole team performed exceptionally well. There was a tremendous display of teamwork and sportman and sportswomanship. There were 14 schools form Glasgow taking part and this year the competition was very, very tough. 97 male and female athletes took part in each event. We had a number or top 20 finishes in the individual events and a handful of podium finishes too!

Girls 600m

Abbey 1st

Peggy-Nan 2nd

Sarah 4th

Kerry 7th

Boys 600m

Rico 6th

Flynn 20th

Girls Javelin

Peggy-Nan 2nd

Kerry 7th

Ceitidh 20th

Boys Javelin

Cameron 4th

Robert 7th

Girls 60m Hurdles

Abbey 8th

Sarah 10th

Girls Shot Putt

Millie 3rd

Abbey 5th

Ceitidh 14th

Kerry 17th

Boys Shot Putt

Rico 7th

Girls Standing Long Jump

Millie 10th

Ceitidh 12th

Sarah 13th

Kerry 18th

Boys Standing Long Jump

Robert 11th

Cameron 17th

Girls 60m

Abbey 4th

Kerry 20th

Boys 60m 

Rico 20th

Girls Standing Triple Jump

Ceitidh 3rd

Kerry 8th

Abbey 9th

Boys Standing Triple Jump

Flynn 11th

Cameron 13th

After each person had completed the 7 individual events there was the 6 x 100m Relays which runs as a sepearate event. This is a very exciting competition which involves heats then finals. With only 6 lanes there was only room for 6 schools in the final. Unlike last year both the girls and the boys qualified for the final. However there was mixed results in the finals. Unfortunately a finishing runner from another school cut up one of our athletes on leg 4 which resulted in our runner falling and having to get back up to hand the baton over. This ended our fight for the medals but what a strength of character to get up and get on with it. All following runners ran their fastest to the line to catch up with the pack despite this unfortunate incident. A cruel lesson learnt but I was very impressed with how the boys responded to the set back. After some not so great changeovers in the heats the girls went into the final with motivation to make things right! This year’s girls final had some very quick individuals and teams, SGG included. The changeovers were better in the final but going into the final leg we were sitting in 3rd place a second down on the top 2. A tall order for any athlete to come back from this in a 100m on a tight bend. Enter Sarah Bonad, our talented S1 pupil. Sarah took the baton from Peggy-Nan and used the first 50m to get on the shoulder of the top 2 Schools, she then went past them and won the race for SGG by a couple of strides. What a finish to top off a great team performance.

Most importantly on the day the 14 members of the team displayed enthusiasm, effort, teamwork and a lot of hard work. Regardless of any results this is our biggest success. I hope that they can continue this as we move into the summer athletics season. 

A big congratulations to the team for becoming Glasgow Schools Champions! 

Athletics Fixture List

For any pupils who have an interest in athletics I recommend that you use the next couple of months to try and improve your performances through both training and competition. Once all the netball fixtures have been completed over the next two weeks athletics will run after school on a Monday and Wednesday as well as the Friday morning. Training is open to all pupils S1-6 of any ability. If you would like to run, jump or throw then come along! Here’s recommendations of athletics competitions leading up to the Glasgow and Scottish Schools Championships at the beginning of June. Pupils should enter themselves and make their own way and back to and from the events. If you are not registered with a club then you put unattached under club name:

Sunday April 15/4/18 Kilmarnock Harriers Open Graded:

http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/20414-17635-kilmarnock-harriers-open-graded-meeting

Wednesday 18:4/18 Livingston Open Graded (1)

http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/20266-17638-livingston-open-meeting-1

Tuesday 24/4/18 Linwood/Inverclyde Open Graded (1)

http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/20375-17644-linwoodinverclyde-ogm-1

Wednesday 2/5/18 Grangemouth Open Graded (1)

http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/20510-17652-grangemouth-outdoor-open-graded-meeting-1

Sunday 13/5/18 West District Track & Field Championships 

http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/20422-17662-fpsg-scottishathletics-u15-west-district-track-field-championships-and-13th-may

Wednesday 23/5/18 Livingston Open Graded (2) 

http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/20267-17673-livingston-open-meeting-2

Wednesday 30/5/18 Glasgow Athletics Association Sprint Gala (1)

http://events.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/20322-17680-gaa-sprint-gala-1

Glasgow Schools’ Giant Heptathlon

Good luck to the SGG team who are competing at the Glasgow Schools’ Giant Heptathlon at the Emirates Arena on Tuesday. Each pupil will take part in 7 events: 

Long Jump

Standing Triple Jump

Javelin

Shot Putt

60m

600m

60m Hurdles 

Good luck to the following team:

Sarah Bonad

Lucie Mills

Abbey Hart

Kerry Stewart

Peggy-Nan Rodger

Millie Soutar

Ceitidh MacDonald 

Cameron Weir

Aaron Green

Connor Walker

Rico Marinovic

Robert Kay-Whyte

Flynn Butler

Fionn Graham

Each individual time/distance will be added to the team score. Good luck to all our athletes. 

Senior Netball Scottish Cup SF

The Senior Girls Netball Team played well in the QF to progress to the Semi-Final of the Scottish Senior Bronze Cup. The team are playing James Gillespies tomorrow at home. Good luck to the team:

Jessica Gow

Eilidh McDougall

Catriona Macleod

Margaret Driscoll

Aimee Dunlop

Morag McKirdy (c)

Katrin Swan

Lauren McDougall 

Scottish Schools Netball Cup QF

The Senior Netball Team are into the Quarter Final of the Scottish Schools Bronze Cup. The game was due to take place last week but because of the snow day the game has been rescheduled to Thursday 8th March. It’s a home game so this will be at the KH. Good luck to the following team:

Morag (capt) 

Aimee

Lauren

Eilidh McD

Katrin

Jessica

Catriona

Margaret

Athlete Focussed Visit

After School on Friday 9th March (tbc Monday) a company called Athlete Focussed will visit the school to deliver a free taster session to a group of our athletes.

Athlete Focused is a sports performance company that delivers holistic athletic development to individuals across a number of different sporting disciplines.

 

Concentrated on creating world-class sportsmen and women and developing a performance culture, Athlete Focused centres its attention on four key pillars for success: training, nutrition, psychology and physiotherapy

The company will come in and do some testing to identify individual areas of strength and areas for development. Mr MacCorquodale has selected the following pupils to take part in this taster session:

Abbey

Millie So

Annabel

Seona

Kerry

Eilidh Mic

Leena

Peggy-Nan

Ceitidh

Orlagh

Rhianna

Iona