NETHERLEE VS ST JOSEPH

On a windy Thursday afternoon, Netherlee Primary football team faced a strong St Joseph’s team at Netherlee playing fields.

Netherlee started off to a strong start putting lots of pressure on the St Joseph’s defence. Inside the first 5 minutes, we slaughtered home a well worked goal that was nicely finished by Kerr Mackie. With the wind against us and our defence struggling by St Joseph`s high pressure, Ewan McCall pulled out a last minute save. However, soon we could not cope with St Joseph strikers and lost 3 goals in short succession. With half time looming, we were playing some good football but couldn’t take our chances.

In the second half, Shay O`Dowd made good decisions and changed our formation to 2-1-2-1. From there Netherlee began their comeback with Daniel Gear whipping in a great corner and nicely headed in by Kerr once again. The defence coped well and put in some strong tackles annoying the St Joseph`s attack.

Our attack once again put through some great balls and eventually got the third and last goal. We fought hard and brought it back to 3-3. Ewan McCall made some brave, strong and difficult saves to keep us in the game.

With 10 minutes to go, we once again lost 2 fatal goals which sadly lost us the game 5-3.

Written by Ewan McCall, Daniel Gear and Adam Diab

On Wednesday 22^nd April all the P7 pupils from Netherlee , Carolside and Busby went to a sports day to Williamwood High School. We all got put into different teams and all of the schools were mixed up. Then we all started to do the different sports. The activities were hockey, football and basketball and we all had fun. The S6 pupils who are doing their Young Leaders Award (like the P7 pupils in our school) were in charge of the groups. It was a great opportunity to meet some of the children that might be in our new classes and to top it all off, the sun was shining the whole day!

Written by Emma Davidson and Emma Wood

Netherlee Extra Curricular Term 4 Timetable 15

Above you will find a link to our timetable for extra-curricular clubs taking place at Netherlee in the Summer Term.

Check back over the coming weeks to see pictures of the clubs in action!

On Saturday 18th April at Kirkcaldy High School, 19 of our primary 6 & 7 pupils competed in the Scottish Schools Cross Country Championships.

It was a beautiful warm and sunny day which was perfect weather for spectators but made running the mile course even more challenging. The standard of competition was extremely high and all of our runners gave their best and did themselves and the school proud.

Netherlee competed in the second race for each group as schools with names beginning A-K run in one race and L-Z in a separate race. Around 150 pupils were in each race.

First up was the primary 6 girls race. Our top finisher was Erin Fraser in 51st place. Lucy Elliott and Anna Winter came home close behind in 54th and 60th. Completing the team were Anna Lucas in 71st and Erica Makin in 121st. In the team results, the girls were 11th out of 22 teams.

Next up were our primary 6 boys. Charlie Tomkinson was Netherlee’s first finisher in 46th place. Just 10 places behind him was Thomas Pavri in 56th. Matthew Norrie finished in 65th, Lewis Gough came 84th and Joe McNally completed the team in 104th.  In the team results, the boys were 14th out of 27 teams.

Our primary 7 girls team competed next. In 59th place Stella Cowey was our first girl home. Following behind her was Anna Ghiro who used the last of her energy in a great sprint finish for 68th place. Sophie Lauder and Nina Jackson finished the race in 87th and 98th respectively. Serena Marchon also made the team but was unfortunately unable to compete on the day due to illness.  In the team results, the girls were 16th out of 20 teams.

Last to run after being fantastic supporters of our other teams were the primary 7 boys. All boys had brilliant runs with the whole team finishing in the top 60. Christopher Watson-Sweeney was the school’s top finisher in an excellent 27th place. Stephen Alpine and Michael Alba pushed each other in the race to finish just 1 place apart in 47th and 48th. Ben Galloway came home in 54th place and Robbie Currie completed the team shortly after in 58th place.  In the team results, the boys were 7th out of 21 teams.

Congratulations to all of our runners, they were a credit to the school in their performances and behaviour! Thank you to them and their families for taking a day out of their Easter holidays to represent Netherlee.

On the 26^th March 2015 Netherlee primary football team faced off against Giffnock Primary at Woodfarm High School.

The match started off well for Netherlee who put lots of pressure on the Giffnock defense and we were unlucky not to score but the Netherlee defense gave the ball away and were too high up the pitch and this led to Giffnock scoring a goal to make it 1-0.

Netherlee kept their heads up and soon afterwards got a goal back through a through ball and a nice finish from Shay O’Dowd to make it 1-1, Assisted by Stephen Alpine.

Netherlee had what seemed like easy control of this match but with the defense again pushing too high up the field Giffnock were able to get a chipped ball over the top and their striker found the net again to make it 2-1.

At the end of the first half Kerr Mackie went up front and hit the woodwork twice with two unlucky shots.

Some nice passing from our team led to the ball being played by Ben Galloway through to Daniel Gear who played and unselfish pass to Shay O’Dowd who equalised just before half-time.

Early second half was dominated by our team with Giffnock making some excellent saves from strong shots by Daniel Gear, Stephen Alpine and Shay O’Dowd but a stray throw in from us was intercepted by our opponents and they clinically finished to make the score 3-2 to Giffnock. Things looked bad for Netherlee.

With around 8 minutes left Euan Menzies ran through from the left-back position to control Stephen Alpine’s throw in. His thunderous shot deflected by a Giffnock defender and the ball flew into the back of the net.

In the late moments of the game Ben Galloway made an overlapping run and from a tough angle put Netherlee up for the first time that day, assisted by Kerr Mackie.

Sadly not for long as with 2mins left Giffnock equalised through a defensive mistake it looked as If Netherlee would have to settle for a draw.

However with 30 seconds left Daniel Gear played a brilliant pass to Kerr Mackie who cut inside on his weaker foot and smashed the ball into the far bottom corner to seal a last minute win for Netherlee making the final score 5-4 to Netherlee. Overall Netherlee deserved the win and it was a great performance for their first game together.

By Euan Menzies, Sean Miller, Stephen Alpine, Findlay McKenzie & Kerr Mackie

Members of our Primary 7 Netball Team were in action again last Wednesday at Williamwood for the cluster qualifier tournament. They had to play in matches against teams from Busby and Carolside. The girls worked very hard and played great as a team. Netherlee finished second on the night in a hard fought contest.

Well done to the girls and thank you to Mrs McCarthy and Mrs Sneddon for taking the girls to the event!

The team are pictured below with their certificate and modelling our new Netherlee  sports team hoodies.

Congratulations to our P6/7 cross country team for being selected to represent Netherlee in the above event at Rouken Glen on Wednesday 11th March. Despite the tough conditions, all runners did themselves proud!

Christopher Watson-Sweeney finished 2^nd in his race to win silver and he along with Michael Alba, Robbie Currie and Ben Galloway also claimed silver in the team event. Well done boys!

Our girls team also did very well with Stella Cowey finishing in 8^th place. The team, made up of Stella along with Ashmi Deb, Anna Winter and Erin Fraser placed 8^th out of 20 teams.

Well done to our runners!

Our next cross country event is the Scottish Schools which takes place on Saturday 18th April in Kirkcaldy. Netherlee will be fielding a strong team of 20 pupils with runners in the P6 and P7 boys and girls categories. Check back in April for photos and results from the event.

On Thursday 19th February we played in a friendly netball tournament against our cluster at Williamwood High School. In the tournament we played against St Joseph’s and Carolside. We won both our matches, scoring 6-0 against St Joseph’s and 5-1 against Carolside. Overall we all enjoyed it and it was a great experience, though we were all rather competitive! After we played both our matches we watched St Joseph’s play Carolside. We all showed good sportsmanship by applauding when they scored. At the end we got a certificate for participating and another for our team coming first. We hope to play more friendly tournaments and we hope everyone enjoyed it!

By Ashmi Deb & Eilidh Neilson

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to our new blog, dedicated to keeping you up-to-date with all things relating to PE, physical activity and sport at Netherlee Primary School.

Here, staff and pupils will post about what they have been doing during class PE lessons, extra-curricular clubs and sports events.