Our Lady's High School is a six-year

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

co-educational comprehensive school which opened in Ravenswood in 1968. It caters for pupils living in

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; gd, Comar nan Allt, meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated t ...

, Muirhead,

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and

Stepps Stepps is a settlement in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, near the north-eastern outskirts of Glasgow. Its recently upgraded amenities include a new primary school, library and sports facilities. The town retains a historic heart around its church in ...

and in addition to pupils from

Condorrat Condorrat is a former village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Like Luggiebank, Castlecary and Dullatur, it predates the new town of Cumbernauld, but unlike those Condorrat was officially included in the designated new town area. Since then it has ...

Dullatur Dullatur is a village (population 720 (est. 2012)) near Cumbernauld, Scotland. Like Condorrat, Castlecary and Luggiebank, it predates the new town of Cumbernauld, and of those only Condorrat was officially included in the designated area. Its nam ...

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and

Castlecary Castlecary () is a small historic village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, directly adjacent to the border with Falkirk. It has long been associated with infrastructure, being adjacent to a bridged river, a Roman fort and roads, a nationwide can ...

.School Handbook 2014-15
URL last accessed 2014-08-26. The school's emblem is a post-modern artistic recreation of the Virgin and child.

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 Kirkintilloch (; sco, Kirkintulloch; gd, Cair Cheann Tulaich) is a town and former barony burgh in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It lies on the Forth and Clyde Canal and on the south side of Strathkelvin, about northeast of central Glasgow. ...

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

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Houses

The pupils are split into 5 different Houses -

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, St John Ogilvie, St Thenew,

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and

St Columba Columba or Colmcille; gd, Calum Cille; gv, Colum Keeilley; non, Kolban or at least partly reinterpreted as (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is toda ...

Notable former pupils

David Cromwell David Cromwell (born 1962) is a British media campaigner and oceanographer. With David Edwards (journalist), David Edwards, he is a co-editor of the Media Lens website. Cromwell was born in Glasgow. His mother was a practicing Catholic. He spent ...

– oceanographer and co-editor of the

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website * Mark McGhee – football manager * Peter Mackie – football player,

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and

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–

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* Neil Primrose – drummer from Travis

References

External links

School's website

North Lanarkshire Council websiteOur Lady's High School's page on Scottish Schools Online
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