After the tension and hard work of the team trials, today the Athletics Team travelled to their first Indoor Athletics Festival.

They did, as always, conduct themselves in the Hallside way, competing fairly but to the best of their ability and did superbly well.  With 13 other schools there and 24 different events, they managed to secure 2nd place in 3 of them and won each of their other races.  A superb start.  Well done.

Well done to the P5 Rugby teams who performed brilliantly to secure 5th and 6th places out of 16 teams at the recent rugby tournament.

While there, they all met Clyde, the Glasgow Commonwealth 2014 mascot.

Both teams started by playing 3 games in groups of four.

The Hawks defeated St Charles Galaxy 5-1, before losing 4-1 to Killies Killer Bees. They secured 2nd spot in the group with a 6-2 win over the Calderwood Cats.

The Hurricanes controversially lost their opening match 6-3 to St Brides before battling out a 1-1 draw with the St Cadoc’s Warriors.  This meant they had to beat James Aiton Jaguars to qualify in 2nd place from the group.  They did this with a 6-2 victory.

Both teams then progressed to the semi finals of the 2nd place play offs.  The Hurricanes defeated the James Aiton Aces 4-1 and the Hawks recorded a 6-2 win over the Burgh Braves.

This meant that they had to face each other in the 2nd Place Play Off Final.  In a brilliant game the Hawks were victorious to secure 5th place overall, with the Hurricanes taking the 6th spot.  Every player received a lovely medal and had a great time (in the sunshine – remarkable!).

Well done.

The P5 teachers have chosen their representatives for the Rugby Festival that takes place tomorrow at Fernhill Community Centre.

The pupils have had some coaching from the rugby coach, Grant, who has been coming into school to work with all  of the P5s and P4s.

We will have two teams involved and we wish them the best of luck. Check back here for the results.

The two teams will be:

Hallside Hurricanes                                Hallside Hawks

Amy Stewart                                            Lauren Thompson

William Govan                                         Kian Dakin

Morgan Muir                                            Max Parkes

David Harvey                                          Jamie Park

Lee Ellis                                                      Mea Carson Dyet

Jay Williamson                                       Callum McKenna

Declan Campbell

This Tuesday will be huge in Hallside.

9.30am – P7 Graduation

12.30pm – Staff/Parents v Pupils Football Challenge

7.00pm – P6 & P7 Seniors’ Dance

The P7s have been working hard on their graduation show and it is looking like being a cracker.

In the afternoon a team of teachers and parents (which will include Mr Bamford, Mr McKenna, Ms Tees and Ms McMenemy) will take on all of the p7 players from all of the various girls’ and boys’ squads in 4 or 5 30 minute matches.  The staff have been undefeated in the last 10 years will this continue?!?!?  Ask your teacher if your class can come out to watch.  Will you cheer on the pupils or the teachers?  The first game will kick off at 12.30, so you can watch during lunchtime

Then in the evening it’s time to get glammed up and head back to school for some nice food and a dance as the P6s and P7s have their senior’s dance.

Roll on Super Tuesday!

Well done to all of the competitors from p3-7 (and yesterday’s P1 and P2 potted sports) and a huge thank you to all of the family members who came along to cheer us all on.

Beautiful sunshine, 39 races, 370 pupils, 200 parents, hurdles, batons, everyone wearing their nations’ colours, team flags and posters, a torch relay, great music and scooters made into horses (!)          = one great day.

I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.

Here are the final results:

Kenya – 555

Team GB – 545

Australia – 525

USA – 340

With rain forecast for Thursday we’ve decided to move both sports day events to Wednesday.  P3-4 at 9.30 and P5-7 at 1.30pm.

Remember if you are in Kenya wear green, Great Britain wear blue, USA wear white and Australia wear yellow.

Events include 8x72m relay, the 72m hurdles and the much anticipated equestrian event!

Can’t wait.

Next week sees the annual Hallside Sports Week.  Parents are welcome to come along and watch the events and cheer on the teams.

By now everyone should know what country/coloured team they will be in.

Blue = Great Britain    Green = Kenya    White  =  USA      Yellow = Australia

Tuesday  19th June P1 Potted Sports 9.30-10.30

Tuesday 19th June P2 Potted Sports 11.00-12.00

Wednesday 20th June P3 & P4 Track Sports 1.30-3.00

Thursday 21st June P5, P6 & P7 Track Sports 1.30-3.00

Fingers crossed for good weather everyone!!!

Well done to everyone who travelled today with Mrs Stephen and Mr Campbell to compete in the South Lanarkshire Finals of the Outdoor Track & Field.  Competition was fierce but everyone competed very well, in hot conditions.

Congratulations to Ryan Stephen who won the 600m to become South Lanarkshire Champion (to add to his Cross Country South Lanarkshire title he won in March).

At the Cambuslang and Rutherglen Sports Council event on Friday evening as part of the Landemer celebrations, Hallside pupils excelled again.  The girls finished in overall second place and the boys finished first – winning another trophy for the trophy cabinet!

A brilliant 21 pupils turned up for races starting at 7pm on what was a blisteringly hot evening. Well done everyone who took part and contributed to the team positions.  Here are the results:

P7 girls – Holli Boyd 4th, Caitlin Spiers 14th, Lisa Priestly 15th

P6 Girls – Mairi Grant 8th, Eilidh McEwan 9th, Abbie Dunnett 12th, Jenna Murray 17th, Melissa Robertson 18th

P7 Boys – Ryan Stephen 1st

P6 Boys – Andrew Greenen 2nd, Kieran Stewart 3rd, Rhys Conner 10th, Lewis Cameron 11th, Cameron Eardley 12th, Euan Kennedy 13th, Adam Costello 14th, Ewan Little 15th, Jordon Donnan 20th, Blair Sutherland   20+, Paul Campbell 20+, Destiny  Efimafor 20+