Here we have Emma Stewart from P5b and Ellie McAllister from P4b with their medals from the Bushido Karate Association Championships 2014.  Both have their medals for taking part in a series of bouts and Emma also has her bronze medal from her 3rd place finish overall. Well done girls.

The girls football team travelled to lifestyle on Monday to play in a football festival, picking up victories against St Columbkille’s and St Charles.  They have now been invited to take part in a wider festival, held in Hamilton, next month.

Go girls!

Here we have Hallside’s swimming superstars Olivia McFarlane and Ethan Horn.

Olivia is sporting her latest medal haul with a 1st in 100m butterfly, 2nd in 100m backstroke, 2nd in 100m freestyle, 2nd in 100m breaststroke, 2nd in 100m individual medley, 2nd in 200m freestyle and 5th in 200m breastroke.  Wow!

Ethan has his trophies and medals from his 1st 100m breastroke, 1st in 100m individual medley, 1st in 200m fresstyle, 1st in 200m backcrawl, 2nd in 100m butterfly, 2nd in 100m backcrawl, 2nd in 100m freestyle.  Wow!

Ethan also went off to compete in the Scottish Schools National Swimming Gala, representing both Hallside Primary and South Lanarkshire.  Unfortunately he was disqualified for the minutest of flinches on the board before the race started.  He still clocked up a phenomenal time.  Better luck next time, but well done on being the first Hallsider to make it all the way to the national gala.  We’re very proud of you.

Well done to the boys football team who travelled to Dumfries on Wednesday to compete in the South of Scotland SSFA Regional Finals.  They played exceptionally well, remained undefeated, without conceding a goal and topped the table by 4 clear points.  This means they have now qualified for the National Finals, placing them in the top 8 schools in the whole country!

As promised, here are some photos of a great day at Queen of the South’s ground, Palmerston Park. (Thanks to Mrs Taylor and Mr Rushbury for the brilliant photography)

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying science and engineering week so far and I hope you all have too.

If you arrived at my blog to find the photos and videos, I’ve actually been posting them all on the main school blog.

Click here to go there and check them out.

Tom Milligan, P7a, has this week managed to secure a place in the Scotland Youth Basketball Squad.  After two weekends of rigorous trials, that involved journeys to Aberdeen, Tom got the good news that he had made it in.  He now looks forward to travelling to Andorra to represent his country.

I’ll keep you all posted here on how he gets on.

Well done Tom.

Here is the link to the highlights of the Clyde v Elgin on the Clyde FC website.

http://www.clydefc.co.uk/media/video/664/

Look out for Terry and Lauren leading the teams out and listen out for the awesome sound of the Hallside supporters inspiring the Bully Wee to their biggest win in years!

The Clyde substitutes take shots at Ethan, while Andrew joins Lewis and Reece in signing autographs!  David chews the fat with Clyde coach Tom and all the players celebrate in the centre circle.

Click on the thumbnail to see more (trust me it’s not just Andrew in them all!)