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Our Lady's High School, Cumbernauld

Field	Value
name	Our Lady's High School
streetaddress	Dowanfield Road, Ravenswood
city	Cumbernauld
province	North Lanarkshire
country	Scotland
type	Secondary
established	1968
headteacher	Nicola Cunningham
grades	Scottish Qualifications Certificate
National 5
Higher
Advanced Higher
nickname	OLHS
affiliations	St Mary's Primary, St Joseph's Primary, St Lucy's Primary
website	http://www.ourladys.n-lanark.sch.uk/
head_name	Second Master
head_name2	Assistant Headmaster

National 5 Higher Advanced Higher School Our Lady's High School is a six-year Roman Catholic co-educational comprehensive school which opened in Ravenswood in 1968. It caters for pupils living in Cumbernauld, Muirhead, Cardowan and Stepps and in addition to pupils from Condorrat, Dullatur, Moodiesburn and Castlecary. 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 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 Gillespie, Kidd & Coia.

Houses

The pupils are split into five Houses: St Pope John Paul II, St Mother Teresa, St Sebastian, St Francis, and St Patrick.

Notable former pupils

Mark McGhee (b. 1957) – football manager
Peter Mackie (b. 1958) – football player, Celtic F.C. and St Mirren F.C.
Pauline McNeill (b. 1962) – Member of the Scottish Parliament
David Cromwell (b. 1962) – oceanographer and co-editor of the Media Lens website
Neil Primrose (b. 1972) – drummer from Travis
Lynn McCafferty (b. 1979) - handball player

References

"Our Lady's High School".
[http://www.ourladys.n-lanark.sch.uk/handbook1415.pdf School Handbook 2014-15]; URL last accessed 2014-08-26.
(28 September 2018). "Celebrations in Cumbernauld as Our Lady’s High School turns 50".

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