Sports Day 2019

June 12, 2019Leave a comment

Our annual Sports Day took place on 11th June, with pupils from all years competing for personal bests, house points and sports championships.

Tollaidh house won overall, with Maree in second and Kerry in third.

Individual Sports Champions as follows:

Junior (S1) Boys – Dan Tippett (Maree) with runner up Alistair MacDonald (Kerry)

Junior (S1) Girls – Laura Nieto (Tollaidh) with runner up Alisha Cameron (Tollaidh)

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Intermediate (S2-3) Boys – Zeke Balanquit (Tollaidh) with runner up Corey MacLennan (Maree)

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Intermediate (S2-3) Girls – Ashley Quinn (Tollaidh) with runner up Kirsty MacDonald (Kerry)

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Senior (S4-5) Boys – Ryan Watson (Tollaidh) with runner up Cameron Walton (Kerry)

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Senior (S4-5) Girls – Nadia Fenton (Tollaidh) with runner up Asha Wright (Tollaidh)

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Cross Country 2019

April 3, 2019Leave a comment

Classes have been working on cross country during PE for the last block and we finished off with some in-school competitions. All of S1 and some keen S2 pupils competed in the cross country event this week:

S1&2 Winners Boys – Anndra Cumming (S1) Girls winner – Izzy Macdonald (S2)

A couple of weeks ago S3-6 pupils competed against each other and the results were:

S3-6 Girls winner – Nadia Fenton (S5) Boys winner – Eoin Cumming.

A report will follow in the next newsletter.

Ross Sutherland Cross Country

February 27, 2019Leave a comment

We had 8 runners travel to the Ross Sutherland cross country in Ullapool: S1’s – Alisha Cameron, Laura Nieto, Roban Mackenzie, Fraser Frost. S2’s – Izzy MacDonald, Helen Urquhart and Lewis Hildrey.

See more photos on Flickr

They all came home very happy with their individual results.

Special mention to Anndra Cumming (S1) who finished 7th in his race, Izzy MacDonald (S2) who finished 5th in her race and Helen Urquhart (S2) who finished 6th in the same race.

Sports Day 2018

June 19, 2018Leave a comment

Sports Day saw all our pupils coming together to compete with themselves, each other and the rain across a range of athletic disciplines.

Each pupil belongs to a house – Maree, Tollaidh or Kerry. Our house events throughout the year, including Sports Day, allow pupils to earn points for their house and they have a great sense of house pride! The facepaints were out in force and prospective house leaders ran warm ups at the start of the day.

Competitions included high jump, long jump, shot put, discus, javelin and a variety of short- and long-distance events including a relay. There are lots of pictures of the competitions on Flickr.

Overall winners were Kerry, with Maree in second position and Tollaidh in third.

Junior Girls Champion – Ashley Quinn, Runner up – Amber Crawford

Amber (left) and Ashley (right)

Junior Boys Champion – Calum Mackenzie, Runner up – Ruaridh Beaton

Ruaridh (left) and Calum (right)

Intermediate Girls Champion – Lucy Hildrey, Runners up – Joint Asha Wright and Mia Elder

Lucy

Intermediate Boys Champion – Matthew Higgins-Macleod, Runner up – Ezekiel Balanquit

Matthew

Senior Girls Champion – Emma MacDonald, Runners up – Amy Tattersal and Erin Thomson

Emma

Senior Boys Champion – Joel Goldby, Runner up – Cameron Walton

Joel

Highland Rowing Festival

March 23, 2018Leave a comment

Over the last few months Gairloch has been competing in the Highland Indoor Rowing League. We have been doing very well at this with nearly every year group competing. The final round of the league was the Highland festival today (22nd March) for which we took 23 pupils.

Great results all round:

S1 Girls – Katie Mackenzie 1st/Ashley Quinn 2nd=/Amber Crawford 9th/Helen Urquhart 10th/Shonagh Mackenzie & Izzy MacDonald 11th=.
S1 Boys – Lewis Hildrey 1st/Ruaridh Beaton 2nd/Calum Mackenzie 3rd/Julian Davies 4th/Jay Abdelrhman 5th.
S2 Girls – Ellie Watson & Kirsty MacDonald 1st=.
S3 Girls – Abi Crawford 1st/Lucy Hildrey 3rd/Maisie Baptist 4th/Charlotte Brady 6th/Kyrene Tallach 7th.
S3 Boys – Kienan Hewitson 1st/Adam Lloyd 2nd.
S5 Girls – Amber Drummond 1st/Arlene Morrison 3rd/Morven Maclean 4th
S1-3 Relays S1-3 mixed Relay – 1st Abi Crawford/Lucy Hildrey/Maisie Baptist & Kienan Hewitson (all S3). 2nd Ashley Quinn/Ruaridh Beaton/Lewis Hildrey & Katie Mackenzie (All S1).
3rd Adam Lloyd/Charlotte Brady/Kyrene Tallach (S3) & Ellie Watson (S2). Clean sweep for Gairloch!
S4-6 mixed Relay – 2nd Amber Drummond/ Arlene Morrison/ Morven Maclean(S5) & Adam Lloyd (S3!)

Gairloch High School Cross Country 2018

March 19, 2018Leave a comment

Pupils have been working on their cross country fitness, resilience and determination in PE. On Wednesday 7th March we had our schools cross country competition. It was perfect running conditions as most of our cross country season has been this year. A small group of pupils ventured out for the run, including all S1, S3 long PE and many other willing runners. Thanks to the senior pupils who helped marshal and assist on the day.

Lots more photos on Flickr

The results were:

S1-3 Girls

Winner joint 1st = Maisie Baptist (S3) and Kirsty MacDonald (S2)

2nd – Helen Urquhart (S1)

3rd – Izzy MacDonald (S1)

S1-3 Boys

Winner 1st – Corey Maclennan (S2)

2nd – Sam Frost (S2)

3rd – Luke Elder (S2)

S4-6 Boys winner joint 1st = Callum MacDonald (S4) Joel Goldby (S4)

No S4-6 girls running this year.