Trinity High School is a

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secondary school located in Eastfield,

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, Scotland near the city of

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. It was established in 1971. The current

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is Allison Craig who took office in 2021 with incumbent Peter Bollen leaving his post.

Overview

Trinity High School was established in 1971 to provide a combined Catholic secondary education provision for

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and

under the new comprehensive system, until that time based separately in limited accommodation at St Bride's and St Columbkille's schools respectively, but with many pupils from the towns having to attend schools either in

, further into

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, or in

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. Initially Trinity used buildings in Cambuslang previously used by Gateside School, which had been supplanted as the local non-denominational facility with the opening of Cathkin High School on a different site on the edge of town. In 1977 the Trinity campus at Eastfield was opened, although the Gateside buildings continued to be used by the school for a few years School History
Trinity High School (archive version, 2009) (it was later used by

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, and eventually demolished in 2008). In 2007 the original Trinity was demolished; a new school was completed in the same Glenside Drive location. Pupils returned in August 2009. A council-run sports centre and swimming pool (known as ''South Lanarkshire Lifestyle Eastfield'') constructed a few years earlier shares the site, with the facilities used by the Trinity pupils during the school day and available for community use at other times. The school uses a traditional

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. The pupils are organised into one of three guidance houses, formerly having been four. The three houses are ''

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'' and '' Melrose''. ''

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'' was previously a house but was removed during re-organisation of the school faculty. The school hosts many afterschool clubs and has competed in national competitions. Around mid-October an awards ceremony is held to honour pupils who have achieved academically and through sports activities. Although a Catholic school, it accepts students from other religious denominations. Trinity's affiliated primary schools include St Anthony's in Springhall, St Bride's in

, St Cadoc's in Halfway, St Charles' in

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, St Columbkille's in Rutherglen, St Joachim's in

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, and St Mark's in Blairbeth.

Gallery

File:Trinity High Consturction.jpg, The new school in Glenside Drive during construction in 2008 File:Trinity2007-2009.jpg, The school premises for 2007 to 2009 (

) File:South Lanarkshire Lifestyle Eastfield 2016-03-09.jpg, 'South Lanarkshire Lifestyle Eastfield' sports centre next to school File:Trinity Gate.jpg, School gate (2020)

History

New buildings, move to Hamilton

On 5 November 2007 the former school building in Glenside Drive, being demolished as part of the ''"Schools Modernisation Programme"'', was set ablaze. Before it was set on fire, it was due to be destroyed by contractors InspirdED onto whom the council had passed responsibility. The fire broke out in the school on

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. A total of eight crews, 60 firefighters in total, worked through the night to control the blaze and by 1:00 AM on Monday morning the fire was finally extinguished. On Bonfire night there were several incidents throughout Scotland in the aftermath of the festival that sparked fires similar to the Trinity School blaze as evidenced by the Strathclyde Fire and Police services, and in addition this gained widespread media attention. During the complete reconstruction of the school, pupils at Trinity High School were temporarily located at the old Holy Cross High School buildings in

, with a replacement for Holy Cross having already been completed nearby (these have also since been demolished in the South Lanarkshire Schools Modernisation project).

Former pupils

* Stuart Findlay, footballer * Scott Harrison, boxer * Clare Haughey, politician *

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, footballer * James Kelly, politician *

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, politician * Scott Martin, footballer * Stephen McKeown, footballer *

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, footballer *

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, footballer * Andy Walker, footballer

References

External links

Trinity High School websiteCouncil information about the school

Proposal to realign the school catchment areas of both Cathkin and Trinity High Schools and St CadocJune 2006 School Inspection Report

School profile at Education Scotland websiteReport of the £290 million project "School Modernisation Programme"Trinity Gazette
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