Silver for Cerys in the Scottish Championships

Massive congratulations to Cerys Manning S5, who was runner up in the Scottish schools championships for fencing (sabre section) last weekend. Well done Cerys!

St Thomas’ NY Sports Tour 2019

St Thomas recently visited New York City for a Dance, Football and Basketball trip. During the 5 day trip, the staff and pupils got up to a huge amount; from visiting Times Square, touring Madison Square Gardens, going to see ‘Mean Girls’ on Broadway and so much more. Here are a few of the pictures they got on their trip!

Max’s Barcelona Success

Max Mackay’s football team (Currie Star) were invited to a football tournament in Barcelona. He was off Friday and today. The tournament was for 16 international teams. While over there the team came first in their group (of 8) and played in the final. Unfortunately they were beaten in the final by a team from Brazil who had four 15 year olds playing for them. It is a brilliant achievement for the team and for him personally. Well done Max!

 

 

 

Polly, Sian and Clodagh fly the flag for St Thomas’

First off all, a huge congratulations to Pollyanna Storie S4 who was victorious on Saturday in the U18 Scottish Cup for the City of Edinburgh Kool Kats, beating Lady Rocks 62 – 52. To top that off Pollyanna came away with 16 points, 14 rebounds AND the MVP. A fantastic achievement, well done Polly!

Another congratulations Sian Phillips S6, Clodagh Mullan S6, and who else but Pollyanna again, who were all victorious in Sunday’s Women’s Scottish Cup final for Edinburgh University, they beat Lady Rocks 76 – 53. Like Pollyanna the day before, Sian finished stat leader with 15 points and 15 rebounds, also being awarded the MVP of the match.

Well done girls, we are all extremely proud of you!

 

Below is a link to the match report for Sunday’s final.

http://basketballscotland.co.uk/2018/01/28/uofe-roar-to-womens-cup-glory-2-2-2/

Silver for Ross

A huge congratulations to Ross Dewar in S1 (Number 52) who represented Scotland East at the Under 13 Inter-District Cross-Country Run on Saturday 13^th of January 2018 and came 2^nd in a time of 11.08. An excellent achievement. Well done Ross!

 

 

New PE Kit Available

You can now buy your very own personalised PE kit online at Superlogo. We have designed a variety of different forms of PE kit ranging from t-shirts to leggings; you can even get your initials on any piece of clothing you order! Click on the link below to order now! We have loads of samples in the PE department for you to try on if you would like a try before you buy!

http://www.superlogo.co.uk/acatalog/st-thomas-extra-curricular.html

Dominique hits the heights

A huge congratulations to our fourth year pupil Dominique Zahara who has been selected to represent Britain in the European Under-17 Championships in Croatia in May, below is a link to an article. Best of luck Dom, everyone at St Thomas are rooting for you!

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/more-in-sport/three-teenagers-included-in-scotland-s-senior-water-polo-team-1-4325996

Here’s Dom in action…

Senior Girls Basketball Team Scottish Cup Final

Commiserations to our Senior Girls Basketball team who came up short against Portobello High School, being beaten 87-75, in an enthralling cup final at Heriot Watt University’s Oriam. The girls performed admirably and everyone at the school are immensely proud of them. A special thanks to Paul Storie, who provided the shooting shirts for the girls. Here are a few pictures of the girls on the day. Go Sharks!

Here is a match report of the game http://basketballscotland.co.uk/news_detail/10020725/

 

 

Glasgow Rocks welcome Scottish International Lee Reilly

Congratulations to our ex pupil Lee Reilly who has recently signed a professional Basketball contract with Glasgow Rocks. During Lee’s time at school he won just about everything there was to win; he won the Scottish Cup on numerous occasions, scoring an outstanding 51 points in the U15s Final in the 2007 final, he was also named MVP in the U14’s final in 2006. Everyone at St Thomas would like to wish all the best with his new club.

 

http://www.glasgowrocks.co.uk/2016/12/glasgow-rocks-welcome-scottish-international-lee-reilly/

Here are a few pictures of Lee and his old team mates (Lee is number 5)

 

St Thomas go to the Ballet

Our Elective Dancers were given the opportunity to watch the Scottish Ballet perform at the Festival Theatre on the 15^th of December 2016. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed the performance of Hansel and Gretel and were inspired by all of the dancer’s high level of technique as well as their ability to tell the story through dance.

 

S1 Football Team

Here are our S1 boys Football team wearing their brand new strips. The boys have performed extremely well this year considering it is their first year playing with one another. They are currently sitting 2nd in their league, and are about to begin playing their league cup matches. Good luck boys!

PE Rules and Procedures

Pupils must bring full PE kit to every lesson. There are NO trainers or spare PE kit available to borrow in the PE department.

Your kit should include:

• T-Shirt (No British Football Clubs Strips)
• Tracksuit bottoms/shorts/leggings
• A change of trainers

Non Participant Policy

Failure to bring a full kit will result in:

1^st time – A verbal rebuke
2^nd time – A punishment Exercise
3^rd time – Departmental Detention and interview by Curricular Leader of Physical Education
4^th time – Pupil Support Leader interview and parent/ guardian contact
5^th time – and every time after – A Central Detention

To ensure all pupils are actively engaged during the lesson, all non-participants will be required to complete a worksheet relating to the activity.

St Thomas of Aquins Physical Education Bursary

Ellie & Cameron Armstrong Athlete Support (ECAAS) Fund

There exists within the Physical Education department, a limited amount of finance for sports grants for the benefit of St Thomas of Aquin’s pupils who are selected to participate in events at International or regional level competition.

In addition, pupils who are selected to attend training courses to the same standard can also benefit.
The granting of all awards is subject to the availability of funds.

There exists within the

Physical Education department, a limited amount of finance for sports grants for the benefit of St Thomas of Aquin’s pupils who are selected to participate in events at International or regional level competition.

In addition, pupils who are selected to attend training courses to the same standard can also benefit.
The granting of all awards is subject to the availability of funds.

THE FUN RUN

As part of the CSLA and SCQF level 6 Sports leadership course, the sports leaders we organised this whole school event. On Friday 11th of March, the whole school came together to participate in the 2016 Fun Run around The Meadows. On behalf of the Sports Leadership team, we would like to thank everybody who participated for all their effort, it was greatly appreciated as staff and pupils together helped to make the day a huge success.

As you are all aware last year was an incredibly difficult one for the school as Cameron and Ellie Armstrong both, sadly passed away. The theme of ‘sports and sparkles’ represented the personalities of both Cameron and Ellie respectively. We would also like to thank everyone for dressing up and supporting the theme on the day. All pupils have been given a school Invictus Maneo t-shirt we would encourage our peers to wear these to Physical Education class’s extra-curricular clubs and sports events.

The money raised will go towards the Ellie and Cameron Armstrong Athlete Support Fund (ECAAS Fund) which is a fund set up within the school to allow high level regional/national athletes to receive financial support for any training fees, transport and or attending competitions. More details and the application forms are on the school website or pupils can get a hard copy from Mr Rizza Curricular Leader of Physical Education.

Thank you again for all your hard work and support shown throughout.

Sporting Achievements

A huge congratulations to our Under 15s Girls Basketball Team who won the Scottish Cup defeating Arbroath Academy 55-46 at Grangemouth. The first ever Girls team to win for St Thomas’. Well Done Girls!

From left to right;
Elif Yildrim, Nicole Holburn, Kirstie Cronin, Khena Dungu, Pollyanna Storie, Lana Buzuk (Coach), Eilidh Turner, Rosa Williamson, Sophie Evans, Nika Watt and Natalie Wilson.

The PE Department and Miss Cairns from Maths attended the Olympic and Paralympic ‘Celebrate the Great’ Event yesterday at Festival Square. The fourth year pupils were a great testament to our school and we were even given a shout out by the opening speaker Steve Cardownie, Deputy Lord Provost who is the father of S1 pupil Callum.

You may have recognised a few faces on Reporting Scotland at 6.30pm last night which included an interview with Sarah Thomson and Khena Dungu.

Well done to our Girls football team who took part in the Girls Football Festival at Forrester High School last month. The girls performed brilliantly well, managing to finish 2nd overall. The girls looked very professional in their new pink school strips. Watch out Barca!