Our Lady's High School, Cumbernauld
Our Lady's High School | |
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Dowanfield Road, Ravenswood Cumbernauld , North Lanarkshire Scotland | |
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Type | Secondary |
Established | 1968 |
Headteacher | Nicola Cunningham |
Grades | Scottish Qualifications Certificate National 5 Higher Advanced Higher |
Nickname | OLHS |
Affiliations | St Mary's Primary,St Joseph's Primary,St Lucy's Primary School |
Website | http://www.ourladys.n-lanark.sch.uk/ |
Our Lady's High School is a six-year Roman Catholic co-educational comprehensive school which opened in Ravenswood in 1968.[1] It caters for pupils living in Cumbernauld, Muirhead, Cardowan and Stepps and in addition to pupils from Condorrat, Dullatur, Moodiesburn and Castlecary.[2] The school's emblem is a post-modern artistic recreation of the Virgin and child.
History
Prior to its opening in 1968 there was no Roman Catholic high school in Cumbernauld and pupils had to make a 10-mile bus journey to Kirkintilloch to attend St Ninian's.
The school has always maintained a strong link with the surrounding community, and through pupils, parents and teacher links they are associated with several primary schools from which the intake is drawn:
- St Margaret of Scotland Primary School, Cumbernauld
- St Lucy's Primary School, Abronhill
- St Mary's Primary School, Ravenswood
- St Joseph's Primary School, Stepps
- St Barbara's Primary School, Muirhead
- St Andrew's Primary School, Cumbernauld
The former Sacred Heart Primary in Kildrum was also a feeder primary until its closure in 2000. Like Sacred Heart, Our Lady's was architecturally designed by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia.[3]
Houses
The pupils are split into five Houses: St Pope John Paul II, St Mother Teresa, St Sebastian, St Francis, and St Patrick.
Notable former pupils
- Mark McGhee (b. 1957) – football manager
- Peter Mackie (b. 1958) – football player, Celtic F.C. and St Mirren F.C.
- Pauline McNeill (b. 1962) – Member of the Scottish Parliament
- David Cromwell (b. 1962) – oceanographer and co-editor of the Media Lens website
- Neil Primrose (b. 1972) – drummer from Travis
- Lynn McCafferty (b. 1979) - handball player
References
External links
- School's website
- North Lanarkshire Council website
- Our Lady's High School's page on Scottish Schools Online
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