Holyrood Secondary School
Template:Infobox UK scho Holyrood Secondary School is a Catholic secondary school in the south-side of Glasgow, Scotland. It is near Crosshill railway station, Hampden Park, A728 and the new M74 motorway.
The school was featured as part of a BBC Documentary by Friel Kean films, which aired in March 2012.[1] Entitled High School, the three-part series followed pupils and staff during the 2011-12 academic year.[2][3][4]
History
The school was founded in 1936 and originally functioned as a Senior Secondary with entry dependent on a high mark in the "Qualifying examination". In 1971 the exam was abolished and all Scottish state schools became equal in terms of status, curriculum offered and examinations taken.
Facilities
The original school building, designed by the firm of John Burnet, Son & Dick, was built in 1936, and is now protected as a category B listed building.[5]
Over the years, the school has had renovation and additional blocks purposely built, this is known as the "new block" and "I.T. Wing". The new block also features new classrooms for English, Religious education and Social Subjects. The school features over 20 purpose build I.T. Rooms and also hosts three drama studios, complete with sound and lighting effects. In addition, several wood work and metal workshops are situated as well as modern laboratories for Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Nearly all classrooms within the school are fully equipped with state of the art SMART boards and projectors.[6]
In 2001, Glasgow city council commissioned a modern sports centre to be built directly next to Holyrood, known as "Holyrood Sports Centre". The school has exclusive access during the day to all the facilities, with the centre being open at night to the public. The sports centre features a full size synthetic floodlit pitch, 3 seven-a-side pitches, changing rooms and shower accommodation. In addition, an open plan gym which can be split into two separate halls, a dance studio and a modern extensive fitness suite. These facilities are used by all pupils for physical education and are an addition to the swimming pool and gymnastics hall.[7]
Malawi Partnership
The school has established a close partnership with Mary's Meals, which saw former deputy head, Tony Begley, resign from his position to take up a new role as the education co-ordinator of this nonprofitable charity.[8] The school has also been at the forefront of fundraising for Malawi as well as Mary's Meals which involves under 30 pupils travelling to areas close to Blantyre, Malawi to reconstruct, renovate and build schools.[9]
A team of 36 young people has now been chosen for 2013 after a successful 5 years of the project and will continue the work in Malawi, led by previous head teacher, Thomas McDonald.[10] The school has so far raised in excess of £200,000 for Malawi.[11]
Admissions
The school has a pupil roll of approximately 2000 pupils and 150 teachers making it one of the largest state comprehensive schools in Europe.[12]
Notable former pupils
- Frankie Boyle[13] Comedian
- James Boyle[14] Broadcaster. Head of BBC Radio Scotland and controller of BBC Radio 4. Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council.
- Alan Brazil former professional footballer with Ipswich Town, Detroit Express, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United, Coventry City, Queens Park Rangers. He was capped 13 times by Scotland. He now presents the TalkSport breakfast show from 6am to 10am Monday to Friday.
- Bob Crampsey[15] Teacher (including history teacher at Holyrood in the 1970s), broadcaster, journalist and historian. Human encyclopedia of football knowledge. Won Brain of Britain 1965. Reached semi-finals of Mastermind (TV series) 1973.
- Tony Curran[16] Actor.
- Jim Fitzpatrick,[17] Labour MP for Poplar and Canning Town since 1997, and former London Fire Brigade firefighter
- Charlie Gallagher[18] footballer
- Fran Healy[19] (lead singer of Travis)
- Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, lawyer, human rights activist and chair of the British Council.[20]
- Jim Kerr, (lead singer), Charlie Burchill and Brian McGee of Simple Minds.[21]
- Johnny McElhone musician and songwriter of Altered Images, Hipsway and Texas.[22] Also, Michael "Tich" Anderson and Tony McDaid of Altered Images.[23] Also, Johnny's brother, Gerry McElhone, who managed both Altered Images and Hipsway, and contributed to songwriting for the former.[24]
- actor Joseph McFadden[25]
- Brian McNeill, keyboard player with China Crisis from the mid-1980s and recording studio owner.
Chaplaincy
The school chaplain is Father John G. Carroll of St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Pollokshaws
References
- ↑ "Head Teacher's Blog: 20th January". Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "Friel Kean Films: High School". Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ High School Episode 1 on BBC One
- ↑ "Ignore the sneerers. High School is a class act". The Guardian. 18 March 2012.
- ↑ "Holyrood RC School: Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ↑ "School Handbook" (PDF). GCC. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "Glasgow City Council Sports centres". Glasgow Life. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "Tony Begley Resigns from Current Position". TES. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "Holyrood Malawi Partnership". Holyrood Secondary. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "Malawi Partnership". Holyrood Secondary. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "TES: This is where my heart lies". TES. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ "Holyrood Secondary School Website: Homepage". Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- ↑ Andrew Johnson (2008-12-31). "Frankie Boyle: Fierce, fearless... and (expletive deleted) funny". The Independent. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
- ↑ "bnet". Findarticles.com. 2002-08-25. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ "obituary HeraldScotland". Heraldscotland.com. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ . 2014-08-25 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192889/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1. Retrieved 2014-08-25. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "www.hm_treasury-gov.uk". Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ "www.celticfc.net". www.celticfc.net. 2010-11-03. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ "musictory.com". musictory.com. 1973-07-23. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ An organisation that promotes Scottish Universities
- ↑ First year school photos of Kerr and Burchill can be found here "simpleminds.org". simpleminds.org. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ "JOHNNY GUITAR; EXCLUSIVE CHART-TOPPING SONGWRITER IS HONOURED WITH NUMBER ONE AWARD Texas star's 25 years of hits. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ From the archive (1994-05-28). "''In a class of its own''". Heraldscotland.com. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ "discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ Evening Times - Google News Archive Search
