Scottish Schools’ Track and Field Champs

Wow what a performance from the SGG pupils at this year’s Scottish Schools’ Track and Field Championships. A record number of entries, a record number of finalists, a record number of Personal Bests and a record number of medals. Maisie carried on where she left off from the scottish schools indoors bronze in the pole vault. Maisie vaulted her way to another bronze in the Pole Vault and went one better in thr Javelin with a silver! SGG’s first ever double medalist at these championships. Mark in S1 had a phenomenal day too, he qualified for the final of the D boys Discus and had a masdove throw of 10m plus in the Shot Putt to secure the bronze medal! Our first boy and youngest medal winner at these outdoor championships! We had many successes on the day not just by finalists or medal winners but by pupils performing their absolute best and coming away with fantastic times in the process. What was most pleasing was the support all pupils gave each other! One staff member from another school said the SGG pupils were by far the loudest! Well done to you all! 

Last netball game of the season

The S1s play the last netball game of the season. It’s on Monday against Rosshall. All the best to the team selected. 

There will be no Netball on Monday or Friday next week. 

Scottish Schools Track and Field Championships

Congratulations, this is the largest group of athletes we have entered into the Scottish Schools’ Track and Field Championships. What a field! That’s all down to your hard work and effort in class. All the best to all our athletes!

U14 - Group D girls

Friday 10th June

200m Abbie + Risha

800m Eilidh + Daisy

Shot Putt Risha + Laurie

High Jump Abbie

Saturday 11th June

100m Sarah + Roseanna

Discus Sarah

U14 - Group D Boys

Friday 10th June

200m Zac

800m Henry + Alasdair

1500m Daibhidh

Shot Putt Mark

Discus Mark + Alasdair

Saturday 11th June

100m Zac

U15 - Group C Girls

Friday 10th June

200m Lois

800m Eilidh

Saturday 11th June

100m Maria + Lois

Discus Eilidh T

U15 - Group C Boys

Friday 10th June

200m Ari + Jacob

U17 - Group B Girls

Friday 10th June

100m Isla + Ceitidh

300m Rhuna

Pole Vault Maisie

Javelin Maisie

Shot Putt Isla

Saturday 11th June

Discus Isla

800m Emilly

U17 - Group B Boys

Friday 10th June

100m Ewan

1500m Finlay

3000m Jonathon

U18 - Group A Boys

Friday 10th June

100m Sam

Discus McKenzie

Inter House Netball Tournament

On Monday 30th May we will be hosting an inter house netball tournament after school in the Talla Spors. He teams are detailed below. Good luck to all teams taking part: 

Scottish Schools’ Pentathlon

For the first time ever we are entering pupils into the Scottish Schools Pentathlon. This is a multi events day where each pupil: runs, jumps and throws. Each measurement or time equates to points and every tries to do their best to try and finish as high up the finishers table as they can. Good luck to the team who take part at Grangemouth 4th June. 

Scottish Schools’ Cross-Country Championships

What an absolutely amazing day we had at Hopetoun House estate in Edinburgh. This was the biggest number of pupils we have ever entered into the competition and it was by far the most successful too. There were absolutely amazing performances right across all the races from our pupils and history was made in this years event too! Our senior girls team in the A race won the schools first set of team medals. They came home with the bronze medals! It was an absolutely fantastic performance from the team! Our senior boys nearly repeated this only to narrowly come 4th which in itself equals our best performance from a male team, next year guys for the medals. I would like to thank all the pupils who not only performed exceptionally well but they also cheered each other on and there was a fantastic team spirit throughout the day. Well done to all the individuals and teams who took part! Here are the results: 

D Girls Race

Daisy 61st

Eilidh 110th

Maria 120th 

Shreya 121st

Olwen 127th

Abbie 144th

Team Position 15th 

D Boys Race

Daibhidh 66th

Mark 93rd

Lyle 98th

Henry 124th

Domhnall Ross 130th

Harry 165th

Team Position 12th

C Girls Race

Lois 60th

Maria 95th

Eilidh T 99th

Ellen 112th

Team Position 11th

C Boys Race

Benny 58th

Chiron 71st

Ari 88th

Jack 109th

Team Position 7th

B Girls Race

Isla 95th

Seona 111th

Rhuna 116th

B Boys Race

Finlay 20th

Coll 51st

Jonathon 77th

Gabriel 79th

Calum 104th

A Girls Race

Peggy-Nan 33rd

Emilly 41st

Lucie 42nd

Sarah 52nd

Team Position 3rd

A Boys Race

Joel 44th

Adam 54th

David 55th

Daniel 60th

Cameron 66th

Team Position 4th

SGG Cross-Country Championships 2022

Here are you medal winners from this year. The top 3 places may have got medals but everyone deserves. A medal for their efforts on what was a fantastic day of racing right across all three races. I hope you all enjoyed it and you should be very proud of the effort you put in not just in the race but in the cross-country block too. 

SGG Teams for the Scottish Schools' Cross-Country Championships

We are sending our biggest ever team of runners to the Scottish Schools' Cross-Country Championships. This is the biggest event on the cross-country calendar with schools from around the country taking part in the event. The entries will be 100+ for more or less each age group. This is also the first year that we have teams taking part in each age category which is a testament to the progress the school has made in athletics and cross-country over the years. We wish everyone all the best for Thursday:

D Girls

Daisy G

Maria

Shreya

Olwen

Eilidh W

Abbie

D Boys

Daibhidh

Henry 

Lyle

Mark 

Harry

Domhnall Ross

C Girls

Maria

Lois

Eilidh T

Ellen

C Boys

Ari 

Niall 

Chiron

Jack M 

B Girls 

Emilly 

Seona

Isla 

Rhuna 

Orla 

B Boys

Jonathon 

Finlay 

Gabriel

Calum 

Sandy

Coll 

A girls 

Peggy-Nan

Kerry

Sarah B

Lucie

A Boys

Rico

Adam

Joel

David

Daniel

Cameron 

Netball Scotland - Glasgow League Playoff Final

Congratulations to the Senior Netball team who won the Netball Scotland Glasgow League Playoff Final last Wednesday. The girls although hit with some absences had to dig deep to progress to the Regional Championships. The girls started the game quite slowly which resulted in the game being very close in the first quarter. The 2nd quarter was much stronger from the team but Holyrood came out swinging in the 3rd to bring the game back to 3 points. This made for an exciting last quarter from both teams. SGG managed to pull away towards the end of the game with some nice interceptions from the defence and some very impressive play from Kerry, Millie and Olive who all combined well. Tired afterwards but the girls were delighted to win the game and they now go on to play the Dumfries and Galloway champions - Douglas Ewart and the Lanarkshire Champions who will either be Strathaven or St Andrew's. Both games will no doubt be very tough, we will be starting as under dogs in these games but these are the types of games that the girls deserve to be playing in and the games that they will benefit the most from. This is essentially the quarter finals of the Scottish Cup so a massive achievement from our wee school to get to this stage of the competition. Good luck to the team in the Regionals. 

Scottish Schools' Indoor Athletics Championships

 Well done to all the athletes that took part in the Scottish Schools' Athletics Championships. Everyone performed very well, especially considering it was the first time competing indoors for two years. Some of our athletes were competing indoors for the first time ever. The highlights of the two day event were Maisie getting a personal best and a bronze medal in the u16 pole vault. She was agonisingly close to 2.30 but the pole knocked the bar down at the last second. Still what a fantastic achievement. Maisie is our first ever medalist at the Indoor competition. A big well done! 

Finlay ran a school and personal best in the 1500m. He ran 4.20 which smashed the old school record by 11 seconds. It was an outstanding performance. Isla got to the final in the Shot Put which was a very tough ask with the number of entries in the field. She finished 6th overall after the final round of throws. Special mention to Lois who has never taken part in the indoors before, was unable to train for it but ran the 5th fastest time from an SGG girl in the 60m. From a standing start! Lots more to come from her. 

Scottish Schools Netball

Our S2/3 Netball team won 2/3 of their Scottish Schools Netball Fixtures and showed great progression this year. They were unfortunate to lost their first game, missing 4 players but these things happen to teams occasionally and the S2 players really stepped up for that game. 

Our Senior Netball Team won all their games and are through to the next round. Good luck into the next round girls. 

SGG Cross-Country Championships 2022

It’s almost here, the 2022 Cross-Country Championships.

This years event will be split into 3 races:

Period 1 - S3s and S4s

Period 2 - S2s

Period 3 - S1s

For this event you should come dressed ready to take part and bring your school uniform. As it’s winter time you will need warm clothes, black socks are a good idea, old trainers, football boots or spikes to wear during the event and a carrier bag for all your kit for afterwards. We are really looking forward to seeing how you all do on race day after all your excellent work during this block! 

Keep working hard!