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.

Not to be confused with Our Lady's High School, Motherwell.

Our Lady's High School
Address
Dowanfield Road, Ravenswood

Cumbernauld
,
North Lanarkshire

Scotland
Information
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

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 5 different Houses - St Margaret of Scotland, St John Ogilvie, St Thenew, St Mungo and St Columba.

Notable former pupils

References
  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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