Update on extra curricular clubs

There are a variety of clubs throughout the week at the Gaelic School:

Monday Table Tennis Lunchtime S4-6, girls football after school

Tuesday Dodgeball lunchtime, Netball after school

Wednesday Gym before school, netball lunchtime, Athletics after school

Thursday Basketball lunchtime, Boys football after school

Friday Gym before school, table tennis and rowing lunchtime

If you fancy a game of table tennis this is usually on every break throughout the week.

Schools Baton

The Glasgow Gaelic School welcomed the schools baton on Friday. The baton was piped in by Pol Monk and the whole primary were awaiting the baton bearers in the playground. The school has lots of events on Monday - Wednesday next week to celebrate the arrival of the baton.

Netball

Congratulations to the girls netball teams who played against Castlemilk on Thursday night

S2 Team
Tamlin Dhinsa
Rebecca Smith
Yvonne Conley
Lauren McDougall
Karen MacDonald
Robyn Paton
Skye McKenzie

S3/4
Katie Blaine
Sophie Grossart
Frances Driscoll
Eilidh Macaulay
Mia Paton
Mairead MacLennan
Mairi MacDonald

The girls faced tough opposition in Castlemilk. The S2s did manage to win 11-6 with Tammy getting 8 points and Yvonne getting 3. The S3/4 lost 13-4 but shouldn't be too disheartened as they played some great netball. Considering both teams only started netball before the summer they have done extremely well.

Netball is on after school on Tuesdays , there is competition for each place in all teams so its important to keep attending each training session.

Adidas donates 20 pairs of trainers to SGG

Pupils at the Glasgow Gaelic School will now be kitted out in brand new Adidas trainers! A special thanks to Kevin Kealey who is Project Manager in the running footwear development team at Adidas and is based at the Global Headquarters in Herzogenaurach in Germany. Kevin who is from Glasgow sent 20 pairs of shoes over so the pupils can use them in a variety of sporting environments. This is a huge contribution to the Glasgow Gaelic School! Moran Taing Adidas agus Kevin!

Netball vs St Thomas Aquinas

On Tuesday the 29th October the S1, S2 and S3/4 Teams will be playing against St Thomas Aquinas away. These Teams will be selected based on pupils attending the after school Netball Club. Currently we have 30 plus girls attending Netball from S1-6, please come along and join in!

Athletics Dates for 2013/14 - Primary and Secondary

Dates and Convenors for 2014

Primary XC – Fri 7 March N Pollok – 10.30am start

Secondary XC – Fri 28 Feb N Pollok, 10.00 start

Primary Track and Field heats – Tue 3/Wed 4/Thurs 5 June Scotstoun

Primary Track and Field Finals – Wed 18 June, Scotstoun, 6pm start. 

Secondary Track and Field heats – (S1-S3) Mon 2 June, 10.00-16.00

Secondary Track and Field Finals – Wed 11 June, 10.00am start

Multi events – Mon 23 June –  Hutchesons’ GS, 10.00am start

Inter-Area – Thurs 19^th June, 11.00am start Grangemouth

Lewis Miller Selected for U17 South of Scotland Team

Lewis Miller from S6 has been selected to play for South of Scotland Under 17 Shinty team against the North of Scotland on Sunday 29^th September at Mossfield Stadium in Oban, throw up 3pm.

This follows on from another successful year of shinty for Lewis, as a regular second team player for Glasgow Mid Argyll, being voted as vice-captain and captaining their under 17 side too.

He has played twice before for the South of Scotland at Under 14 level and was consistently voted for player of the year when playing for the school team at each age level. I’m sure it won’t be long before he has a place in the first team, who have just won promotion to the Premiership for next season.

So who knows? We could have a school shinty player, playing against the likes of Newtonmore, Kingussie and Fort William, to name but three!

More to follow on how the game went for Lewis on Sunday. 

Glasgow School of Sport Open Day 2013

GSOS Open Day

The Glasgow School of Sport at Bellahouston Academy is a National Centre of sporting excellence funded by The Scottish Government. Applications are open to talented youngsters from throughout Scotland. Talented sports pupils follow specialist training together with a balanced curriculum of academic studies.

Applications are now being accepted for entry in 2014 into S1, S3, S4 and S5/S6 in the sports of Athletics, Badminton, Gymnastics and Hockey. Swimming applications will be accepted for entry into S3/S4/S5/S6.

An Open Day will be held at 10am on Saturday 16 November 2013.

Any interested pupils, parents/carers, teachers or coaches are invited to learn about the school. If you would like to attend please fill in the tear-off slip on this flyer and return it by Monday 11 November 2013 to:

Open Day
Glasgow School of Sport
Bellahouston Academy
30 Gower Terrace, Glasgow G41 5QF
email: Loraine.henderson@glasgowlife.org.uk
Tel: 0141 582 0034

Samuel and Rory attend Valencia Coaching Day

Samuel Dow and Rory Connelly both attended a full day of football run by Valencia. This was a fantastic opportunity for the two boys who were selected based on their hard work throughout the year and their commitment to the football team. Mr Smith also attended the day along with the boys and got some coaching help and documents so they can applied in the football training after school for girls and boys. A report by Samuel and Rory will follow shortly.

SGG Young Ambassadors

Abbie MacNeil and Angus Jenkins have been selected by the Physical Education Department to be the school's Young Ambassadors. This programme engages young people aged between 14-19 as role models and leaders in sport. Angus and Abbie have been selected due to their impressive performances in sport both within and out with school hours and for their hard work in their classes last year. They will be motivating and inspiring other pupils to participate in sport throughout the year.

This programme is being run by sportscotland, Glasgow City Council organised a Young Ambassadors launch day at Tollcross where all selected pupils were brought together to listen to some motivating stories from previous young ambassadors as well as get some ideas on what they can do for the year. Good luck to Abbie and Angus. 

Robyn takes Top Honours at Scottish Championships...again

 

Robyn Paton S1 won the Scottish Open BMX Championships and Scottish Regional BMX Series for the second year in a row. Robyn also impressively finished 8th overall in the UK!!  Mia, Robyn's sister came 2nd in the Scottish Open and Scottish Regional Series.  The Scottish Open was a competition open to all riders from the UK some coming as far as Peckham with riders from the British Cycling Talent Team competing and Olympic squad too, it is the most prestigious BMX Racing event in Scotland which makes Robyn and Mia's success even more impressive.

In addition it is looking very likely that Robyn has qualified for next years UCI  World Championships in Holland, she will find out by the end of November. Fantastic performances from both Robyn and Mia! Keep up the good work girls!

Mr Shand raises money for trip to Loch Eil

Mr Shand completed his fundraising cycle last weekend along the 50 mile route from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Mr Shand was raising funds for the S3 outward bound trip to Loch Eil. Mr S  has managed to raise over £300 pounds so far! Math thein! Fantastic acheivement Mr S! If you would like to donate to this trip you can contact the school office for more details on transfering money to the school fund: 0141 276 8500.

Congratulations also to Angus Jenkins and Adam Smith S6 for completing the cycle too. Next year Angus Jenkins, Mr MacCorquodale and Mr MacKay have already unofficially signed up for the Glasgow - Edinburgh - Glasgow cycle....unofficially.