CGS Sports News. YA Conference. Inspiration

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1 CGS Sports News YA Conference On Tuesday 14 th September both myself (Skye Sinclair) and Nicole Thomson travelled to Glasgow with Mr McQuaker (Principal Teacher PE) & Sharon Gillies- McCallum (Active Schools) to attend the Young Ambassadors Conference at Hampden Park. After our overnight stay in the Premier Inn we arrived at Hampden Park with excitement for the day ahead. On arrival we were issued with our YA polo-shirt and pin badge and met with a team of athletes including Jenny Jones, bronze medal winner in the women s slopestyle (snowboarding) at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Our Young Ambassadors organised a very successful Active Girls Day on Friday 27 th October which saw 145 girls from S1 to S6 participate in cardio tennis, dance, powerhoop and cardio combat. Our YA s would like to thank Jane Gallagher (Campbeltown Tennis Club), Miss McLean, Mrs McGeachy and Hannah, Lara & Beckie for assisting on the day. Well done Girls! Inspiration Our day was filled with workshops equipping us well for our year ahead as CGS Young Ambassadors where we want to raise the profile of sport in our school and to give you a voice when it comes to making decisions for sport and shouting loud about what we ve achieved. Come and speak to us at any time with your ideas.

2 MAKI Football Over 130 pupils representing Lochgilphead High School, Tarbert Academy, Islay High School and Campbeltown Grammar competed in the annual MAKI Football tournament in Campbeltown at the All Weather pitch on Tuesday 26 th September. A special thank you to all those who gave of their time to referee matches on the day including 3 former pupils who officiated all the girls matches played on the day. A & B Volleyball It was great to see a volleyball tournament take place this year as part of the Secondary Schools Event Calendar. The innaugrual Argyll & Bute Volleyball Tournament took place in the Victoria Hall, Campbeltown on Tuesday 3 rd October as Teams from Oban High, Dunoon Grammar, Lochgilphead and Campbeltown played a 4 v 4 round-robin tournament. There were some excellent performances on the day with many closely contested matches. Oban A team finished the afternoon on top after defeating Dunoon A team in the final. Playing 7 v 7 games over the three pitches both S1-S3 and S4-S6 girls and boys teams took to the field playing each other twice. There were many exciting, close games on the day and the settled weather certainly helped make the event more enjoyable. Keep up to date with our Sports News Follow us at: cgs_sports Well done to our S1 S3 Boys team who finished the days competition as winners.

3 New School Build Sports Captains 2017/18 Congratulations to our Sports Captains selected for this year who have already equipped themselves very well organising Inter-House Competitions. We are scheduled to move into the new Campbeltown Grammar School in February 2018 and excitement is building. As Young Ambassadors we are already working closely with the PE Department and our Active Schools coordinator to plan for our move and produce a timetable of extra-curricular sports activities within this new facility. The new Physical Education Department will comprise of a large games hall with 4 badminton courts, full size basketball, volleyball and netball court. On the first floor there is a large gymnasium with one badminton court including a small climbing wall. In addition there will be a staff base, ground floor and first floor changing rooms as well as a laundry room. No more dirty bibs to wear in lessons! Once the move takes place the old CGS building will then be demolished to make way for our full size allweather pitch and staff car park. This outdoor pitch facility will transform both the PE curriculum as well as extra-curricular programme within CGS giving us the opportunity to work outdoors all year round. Look out for our next Sports Newsletter and hopefully we will have a sneak preview of our new sports facilities in the New Campbeltown Grammar. Bengullion Kilbrannan Knockscalbert Skye Sinclair & Fred Tachauer Ruth Turner & Daniel Conley Lucy Thomson & Dylan Brown Argyll & Bute Area Trials Scottish Schools Swimming Championships An early departure on Wednesday 15 th November saw a full mini-bus of swimmers travel to Riverside Pool in Dunoon to compete in the annual Argyll & Bute Area Trials for the Scottish Schools Swimming Championships. There were many medal winning performances on the day from swimmers representing Campbeltown Grammar School including gold for Ryan McGeachy in the 400m Freestyle & 100m Butterfly, Josh Horan in the 100m & 200m Backstroke, Logan Colville in the 200m Breaststroke & 200m IM, Caitlin Russell in the 100m & 200m Backstroke and Euan Charlwood in the 100m Butterfly and 200m Breaststroke. Logan Colville (1.3) gained consideration times in the 100m and 200m breaststroke and the 200m Individual Medley and Caitlin Russell (2.2) in the 200m backstroke. Euan Charlwood (1.3) in the 100m breaststroke and Josh Horan (4.3) in the 100m and 200m backstroke. Swimmers with consideration times will select which events they can be put forward for to hopefully make the Scottish Schools Finals which take place at the Dollan Aqua Centre, East Kilbride on Saturday 27 th January 2018.

4 Autumn International: Scotland Australia Best Wishes We wish Miss McLean of the PE Department well as she leaves us on Friday 8 th December to go on maternity leave. We hope to see you out and about pushing the pram soon! A lucky group of budding rugby fans and staff travelled to Murrayfield by coach on Saturday 25 th November to see Scotland demolish Australia in a record win scoring 8 tries. The 38 pupils and 5 members of staff were treated to a very exciting match. Mr Doxsey (Teacher of Physical Education) is organising another excursion to Murrayfield on the 24 th February to see Scotland take on England in the Calcutta Cup as part of the Six Nations Tournament. Let s hope for a similar outcome then! Dates for the Diary Badminton Championships Dance Festival Boys Football Development Day Table Tennis Boys Rugby 7 s Athletics Championships Monday 29 th January Atlantis, Oban Wednesday 28 th March Oban High School Thursday 19 th April, Rothesey Tuesday 1 st May Hermitage Academy Thursday 31 st May Lochgilphead Thursday 14 th June, Lochgilphead Miss McLean & Bump teaching class 2.3 badminton. Inter-House Our attendance numbers at Inter-House badminton and table tennis on Wednesdays after school in the PE Department have been pleasing with in excess of 30 pupils participating. After 5 weeks of competition in the badminton Bengullion House are narrowly in the lead from Kilbrannan House with Knockscalbert sitting in 3 rd place. With 4 weeks of competition remaining it s all to play for. This year it has been very pleasing to see table tennis matches played at Inter-House. With lunchtime table tennis club on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays a number of pupils are getting involved in this fantastic game. Inter-house competitions are open to any pupil within the school, just turn up on a Wednesday after school and bring your PE Kit.

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