Bishopbriggs Academy
 | |
| Motto | Educating, Inspiring, Empowering |
|---|---|
| Established | 2006 |
| Type | State secondary school |
| Headteacher | Gordon Moulsdale BSc |
| Location |
Wester Cleddens Road Bishopbriggs East Dunbartonshire G64 1HZ Scotland |
| Students | 1173 (Session 2012/13)[1] |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Houses | Burns, MacDonald, Thomson, Kelvin, Fleming, and Muir |
| Colours |
Tie Colours Badge Colours |
| School years | S1-S6 |
| Affiliated schools | Auchinairn, Woodhill, Wester Cleddens, Balmuildy, and Meadowburn |
| Website | Official Site |
Thomas Muir High School is a secondary school in the town of Bishopbriggs, Scotland, in the district of East Dunbartonshire. Thomas Muir High School is a non-denominational, co-educational, comprehensive school taking pupils from S1 to S6. It is currently one of two secondary schools in Bishopbriggs, along with Turnbull RC High School at Brackenbrae.
The school was established in August 1981.
In January 2013 the school received four "Excellent" grades in an Education Scotland Inspection Report.[2]
In November 2014, the school was named 'The Scottish State Secondary School of the Year' by the Sunday Times in the Sunday Times School Guide for 2014. [3]
History
The two antecedent secondary schools were originally established to meet local demand during Bishopbriggs' housing boom beginning in the 1960s. Bishopbriggs High School was opened by Lanark County Council in 1965 and designed by Simon Pollard.
It replaced the previous Bishopbriggs Higher Grade School which had originally opened in 1896, designed by David Woodburn Sturrock, and featured inscriptions on its clock tower, commemorating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria that year. This catered only for pupils up to S4 with most leaving at age 15 (S3). Higher Grade pupils transferred to Lenzie Academy in Dunbartonshire. The former Bishopbriggs Higher Grade School building was converted into the town library after the completion of the new High School building.
Thomas Muir High School was named after the local historical political radical, Thomas Muir, and opened in 1979, to serve the expanding Woodhill area of the town.
New academy
Bishopbriggs High School and Thomas Muir High School merged in 2006 to form Bishopbriggs Academy as part of a £100million PPP plan to build six new secondary schools in East Dunbartonshire. The school is now situated at the site of the former Thomas Muir High School on Wester Cleddens Road, where the new campus was completed in August 2009. Prior to that, Bishopbriggs Academy had been located at the former Bishopbriggs High School buildings near Bishopbriggs Cross, which were demolished during June 2010.
The council consultation with parents had initially resulted in an agreement that the school would be built on the Bishopbriggs High School site, however this decision was later reversed in favour of the Thomas Muir site in Woodhill, releasing the more valuable BHS site for a proposed supermarket.
School roll
| Session | roll | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006/2007 | 1294 | 208 | 208 | 209 | 290 | 241 | 137 | [4] |
| 2007/2008 | 1229 | 210 | 208 | 210 | 208 | 240 | 153 | [5] |
| 2008/2009 | 1189 | 208 | 210 | 207 | 206 | 185 | 172 | [6] |
| 2009/2010 | 1180 | 213 | 210 | 210 | 207 | 189 | 151 | [7] |
| 2010/2011 | 1158 | |||||||
| 2011/2012 | [8] | |||||||
| 2012/2013 | 1173 | [1] | ||||||
| 2013/2014 |
Notable former pupils
Bishopbriggs High School
- Scotty Rumsby, Stranraer FC Footballer
- Stuart Bannigan, Partick Thistle football player and also Scotland Under 21 internationalist.
- Dougie Freedman, Scotland international who notably played for Crystal Palace, Wolves and Nottingham Forest, as well as managing Palace and Bolton Wanderers.
- Alastair Kellock, Glasgow Warriors and Scotland national rugby union team captain[9]
- Amy Macdonald, singer[10]
Thomas Muir High School
- Roderick Buchanan, artist[11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0042/00420794.xlsx
- ↑ http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/inspectionandreview/reports/school/primsec/BishopbriggsacademyEastDunbartonshire.asp
- ↑ http://www.bishopbriggs.e-dunbarton.sch.uk/_files/bishopbriggs_academy_award_edc_pdf.pdf
- ↑ http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/pdf/IS%20School/School%20Rolls%20Sept%202006.pdf
- ↑ http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/pdf/IS%20School/School%20Rolls%20Sept%202007.pdf
- ↑ http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/pdf/IS%20School/School%20Rolls%20Sept%202008.pdf
- ↑ http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/pdf/IS%20School/School%20Rolls%20Sept%202009.pdf
- ↑ http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0041/00416047.xls
- ↑ "Bishopbriggs Boy is New Scotland Skipper". Kirkintilloch Herald. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
- ↑ "Video week - Former Bishopbriggs High School pupil Amy Macdonald performs for Bishopbriggs Academy pupils at The Garage nightclub in Glasgow". The Herald. Newsquest (Herald & Times) Limited. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
- ↑ "Roderick Buchanan and Thomas Muir". Map Magazine. 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
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Coordinates: 55°54′29″N 4°12′10″W / 55.90806°N 4.20278°W