Our Lady's High School is a six-year

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

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; ) is a large town in the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, most-populous locality in Scotl ...

, Muirhead,

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and

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and in addition to pupils from

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Dullatur Dullatur () is a village (population 720 (est. 2012)) in 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. I ...

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and

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.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

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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 five Houses: St Pope John Paul II, St Mother Teresa,

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, St Francis, and

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Notable former pupils

Mark McGhee Mark Edward McGhee (born 25 May 1957) is a Scottish former professional football player and coach. A former forward, McGhee started his career at Greenock Morton in 1975 and had spells at clubs including Newcastle United, Aberdeen, Hamburg, ...

(b. 1957) – football manager * Peter Mackie (b. 1958) – football player,

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and

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* Pauline McNeill (b. 1962) –

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* David Cromwell (b. 1962) – oceanographer and co-editor of the

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website * Neil Primrose (b. 1972) – drummer from

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* Lynn McCafferty (b. 1979) -

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player

References

External links

School's website

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