Our Lady's High School, Cumbernauld

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.

Our Lady's High School
Address
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Dowanfield Road, Ravenswood

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Scotland
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TypeSecondary
Established1968
HeadteacherNicola Cunningham
GradesScottish Qualifications Certificate
National 5
Higher
Advanced Higher
NicknameOLHS
AffiliationsSt Mary's Primary,St Joseph's Primary,St Lucy's Primary School
Websitehttp://www.ourladys.n-lanark.sch.uk/

History

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ "Our Lady's High School". The Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  2. ^ School Handbook 2014-15; URL last accessed 2014-08-26.
  3. ^ "Celebrations in Cumbernauld as Our Lady's High School turns 50". Cumbernauld News. 28 September 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
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