Liberton High School is a
secondary school in
Liberton, in the south of
Edinburgh
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, Scotland, which is located on Gilmerton Road. The school roll for the 2014–15 academic year was 610.
Liberton High School has had certain great achievements in sports, such as the undefeated girls hockey XI in 1970-71.
In football, they were the first Edinburgh school to win the Scottish Schools Secondary Shield, in 1966.
On 1 April 2014,
a 12-year-old girl was killed when a wall collapsed in one of the school Physical Education department's changing rooms.
It was announced in December 2020 as part of a £80M funding in education that was announced by
John Swinney as
Deputy First Minister of Scotland
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that Liberton High School would be rebuilt to replace the original school.
Headteachers
*John Jack (1959–1968)
*Henry Phillip (1968–1985)
*Joe Vettese (1985–1995)
*Gwen Kinghorn (1995–2005)
*Donald J. Macdonald (2005–2012)
*Stephen Kelly (2012–2022)
Notable alumni
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Eamonn Bannon
Eamonn John Bannon (born 18 April 1958) is a Scottish former internationalist footballer who played in midfield. His most successful seasons were with Dundee United where he won two league cups and the 1983 League Championship. Numerous runs w ...
, retired footballer
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Eric Faulkner
Eric Faulkner (born 21 October 1953 as Eric Falconer) is a guitarist, songwriter and singer, best known as a member of the Scottish pop band, the Bay City Rollers.
Faulkner was born at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland. As a ...
, member of The Bay City Rollers
*
Bruce Hay
Bruce Hamilton Hay (23 May 1950 – 1 October 2007) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Background
Hay was born in Edinburgh and educated at Liberton High School. From there he went on to work as an engineer for the National Coal ...
, rugby union player (Member of British Lions)
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David Martin, MEP
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David Paton
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, musician
*
Iain Stirling, TV personality
*
Allan Wells, Olympic sprint champion, Moscow 1980
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Bobby Ford (Scottish footballer)
Bobby Ford (born 14 December 1949) is a Scottish footballer, who played for Falkirk, Dundee, Montrose, Raith Rovers, Dunfermline Athletic and Meadowbank Thistle
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, retired footballer
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Murray McDermott, retired footballer
Notable staff
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Roy Williamson
Roy Murdoch Buchanan Williamson (25 June 1936 – 12 August 1990) was a Scottish songwriter and folk musician, most notably with The Corries. Williamson is best known for writing "Flower of Scotland", which has become the de facto national ant ...
, Scottish folk singer; member of
The Corries
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; art teacher at the school
External links
Liberton High School's page on Scottish Schools Online
References
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Secondary schools in Edinburgh
1959 establishments in Scotland
Educational institutions established in 1959