Arbroath High School
Arbroath High School
| Location |
Keptie Road
Arbroath
Angus
DD11 3EN
Scotland |
| Local authority |
Angus |
| Gender |
Mixed |
| Ages |
11–18 |
| Website |
AHS |
Arbroath High School is a six-year state run school in Arbroath, north-east Scotland.
Admissions
The school has around 1000 pupils and serves the west-end of Arbroath. This area consists of a mixture of authority and privately owned housing.
Arbroath High is one of two secondary schools in Arbroath, the other being Arbroath Academy which serves the east-end of Arbroath and surrounding areas. The feeder schools are Inverbrothock Primary School, Ladyloan Primary School, Timmergreens Primary School and Colliston View Primary School.
History
It was a state grammar school.
It became a comprehensive school.
Teaching
The current Rector of the school is Mr. Orr, who is supported by a number of deputy rectors, and heads of houses.
There are three houses: Bruce, Macgregor, and Wallace. Each house has its own set of guidance teachers and head of house.
There is a large variety of subjects taught including,
- Business Management
- Geology [S5 + S6 only]
- Photography
Pupils can go home for lunch, or stay in for school lunches, which are provided by Tayside Contracts.
Activities
Arbroath High School provides a huge host of activities from, Basketball Club to a Chess Club. Most of these clubs are before, or after school, or during the lunch hour.
Physical education
Physical Education facilities include;
- Football Pitches
- Squash Courts
- Basketball Courts
- Athletics Equipment
- Rugby Pitches
- AstroTurf Pitch
- 25 Metre Swimming Pool
- Gymnasium
- Gym
- Clay Tennis Courts
Alumni
Grammar school
- Prof James Adams, Professor of Education from 1955-80 at the University of Dundee
- Rev Prof George Anderson, Professor of Old Testament Literature and Theology from 1962-82 at the University of Edinburgh
- Marion Angus (1865-1946), poet in the Scots language and standard English
- Peter Birse, Chairman and Chief Executive from 1970-99 of Birse Group (now known as Birse Civils, and bought by Balfour Beatty in 2006), which he founded in 1970
- Dennis Buchan, painter
- Sir William Duke
- James Falconer, Liberal MP from 1909-18 and 1922-4 for Forfarshire
- Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Conservative MP from 1983-97 for Stirling, and Secretary of State for Scotland from 1995-7
- Ian Gray, scriptwriter for Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Desperate Dan, and Biffo the Bear, who invented the cartoon dog Gnasher
- Sir John Kirk (explorer)
- Cargill Gilston Knott, mathematician, seismologist, and expert of earthquakes in Japan
- William Littlejohn, painter
- Brian Low CBE, High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea from 1994-7
- David Lowe OBE, Secretary from 1954-70 of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
- Prof Kenneth Lowe CVO, cardiologist[2], and a pioneer in the use of electrocardiography (ECG)
- Allan MacDonald, Australian politician
- Sir Stephen Miller, opthalmic surgeon, and Editor from 1973-83 of the British Journal of Ophthalmology
- William Moodie, psychiatrist
- Neil Morrison CBE, Firemaster from 1985-93 of Grampian Fire and Rescue Service
- George Robert Milne Murray, botanist
- Russell Reid, former Editor from 1989-2001 of The Sunday Post
- Graham Ritchie, archaeologist, married to the archaeologist Anna Ritchie OBE
- Kenneth Ritchie CMG, High Commissioner to Malawi from 1973-7, and to Guyana from 1967-70
- Andy Stewart (musician), who sung Donald Where's Your Troosers?
- Mike Weir, SNP MP since 2001 for Angus
- Kathleen Whyte MBE
- Henry Wyse, artist
References
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