PE Xmas Party

It’s that time of year again...Christmas!!!

The PE Christmas party is on a bit earlier this year to avoid clashes with other School events. 

It’s for S1-3 and £5 per person so if you’re interested bring your money along and sign up with the PE Department! 

S1 Netball Development Festival

The school is sending a team to the S1 Netball Development festival. This festival is designed to give players who haven’t had much experience a chance to play some competitive netball and learn more about the sport and develop their skill levels. Good luck to our team:

Minnie Wood

Maebh Cronin

Saorla Dickson

Isla Sproull

Aleix Daziell 

Sarah Heap

Sophie Hoy

Emma Close 

Scottish Schools’ Climbing Championships

Congratulations to our two Scottish Schools Climbing medalists, Caryn and Conall! They both performed very well to even reach the finals of the competition after progressing through the intense qualifying. On finals day last weekend they both showed great skill, focus, decision making and determination to win bronze medals! National medals do not come easy and the school is delighted for Caryn and Conall, congratulations again! 

Here’s Caryn with her medal, photos of Conall in action can be seen on the School twitter account @gaelicschool

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. 

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! 

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.

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