Well done to Clyde who won 4-0 today as we took more than 100 Hallside visitors (pupils, parents, aunties, grannies, grandpas and staff) along to cheer them on.

Our future football stars performed their 10 second challenge on the park at half time.

Especially well done to Liam Smith, Murray Fulton, Oliver Cameron & Reece Paterson who were the four who scored their goals.  Andrew Rushbury and Ethan Horn were on fire in goals.

Terry McMillan and Lauren Thompson were the official club mascots who went into the dressing room to meet the players, helped warm up the teams and helped with the coin toss.

Thank you to all the adults who came along to lend their support.

Thanks too to Gordon Mason and Tom McKenna and all the very friendly people at Clyde for inviting us along for free and making us feel so welcome.

As always, the pupils were impeccable and a credit to the school with their behaviour and enthusiasm.

Let’s go Clyde, let’s go!

I’ll post batches of pictures as I go through them.

We’re off to cheer on Clyde FC again tomorrow.  We’re taking 98 pupils, parents and staff to go along and lend our support.  Lauren Thompson and Terry McMillan will be the offical team mascots on the day and 22 of our pupils will be going onto the pitch at half time to take part in a 10 second challenge.

I’ll post some of the best pictures here next week.

For those going, see you at the school at 1pm.  Remember to wrap up warm. You can bring snacks and drinks, but remember no cans or bottles allowed. We should be back at the school again at around 5:30.

There is a brilliant article about the school’s visit to Clyde on the Clyde FC website.

Clyde FC Hallside article on Clyde FC Website

Well done to the P6 boys football team who represented Hallside in the TSB Junior 7s tournament on Wednesday.

They narrowly missed out on a place in the next round after playing superbly in all three of their fixtures: winning 10-0 and 5-2, but unfortunately, despite numerous chances, including hitting the post, twice, they went down 2-1 to the eventual winners of their group.

Perfect behaviour, impeccable sportsmanship and brilliant football as always.

(photos to follow)

Well done to the Senior Boys football team, who this week defeated Spittal Primary 12-2 to go back joint top of the league with James Aiton.

The team was:

Andrew Rushbury, Kyle Maxwell, Dylan Mills, Lewis Slivinski, Ross Taylor, Ewan Coleman, Austin Sime, Reece Paterson & Oliver Cameron

Well done boys.

March 19th has now been confirmed as the date for the senior boys team to go and compete against the other regional winners in the South of Scotland Finals of the TSB Scottish Schools Senior 7s, at Palmerston Park, Dumfries. Kick off will be at 11.00 am and we will set off to return at 1.30pm. Good luck boys.

Well done to former Hallside Primary pupil Duncan Weir who has just scored a fantastic drop kick with only a few seconds on the clock to secure a 21-20 win for Scotland over Italy in Rome.

Superb!

The boys football team will be playing a league fixture against Spittal Primary on Monday 24th Feb at Fernhill, kickoff 1:30pm.

A team of P6s will be representing Hallside at the TSB Junior 7s for P6 and under on Wed 26th February at Palace Grounds, Hamilton, Kickoff 10:00am.

The boys team will also then be playing the South of Scotland finals of the Scottish Schools FA Cup on 19th March, at Palmerston Stadium, Dumfries (absolute confirmation of the details of this event are still to be sent through).