St Andrew's and St Bride's High School

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St Andrew's and St Bride's High School
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St Andrew's and St Bride's High School
Platthorn Drive

East Kilbride
,
South Lanarkshire
,
G74 1NL

Scotland
Coordinates 55°45′43″N4°10′00″W / 55.76204°N 4.16656°W / 55.76204; -4.16656
Information
Type Comprehensive School
MottoDeus Solem Sufficet, translates from Latin to God Alone Suffices.
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
Established2007
Authority South Lanarkshire
HeadteacherBarry Quinn
ChaplainSebastian Clyde
Teaching staff125 (99 FTE)
Gender Co-educational
Age12to 18
School roll1696
LanguageEnglish
Colour(s)red, black, purple and blue
Feeder schoolsSt Leonard’s Primary, St Louise’s Primary, St Hilary’s Primary, St Kenneth’s Primary, St Vincent’s Primary, Our Lady’s Primary
Website st-a-and-st-b.s-lanark.sch.uk

St Andrew's and St Bride's High School is a Roman Catholic school in East Kilbride, Scotland. The current head teacher is Barry Quinn. The school opened in 2007, and has a roll of 1,698 pupils. [1] The new buildings are adjacent to St Bride's Roman Catholic church, built in 1964 by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. The school and church fall under the Diocese of Motherwell. [1]

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History

The school was formed by the merger of two earlier schools, St Brides RC High School originally located at the Platthorn Drive site, and St Andrews RC High School located at Scholar's Gate in the Greenhills area of East Kilbride.

Opened in 1956 as a junior secondary and primary school, St Bride's was located close to the town centre consisting of one main building, with a separate Art block and three technical blocks. The advent of comprehensive education in 1967, meant that Catholic pupils would attend the school, as there would be no qualifying examination for senior secondary schools and so a further Science block and a Technical Block were built in 1970 and a large "New Block" with a Business studies block were opened in 1971. Later, in 1975/6 a large P.E.Block was built to complete the campus. At its largest, around 1977, the school was second largest in Scotland, with 2,220 pupils, but the opening of St. Andrew's High in 1978 reduced this. It was a state comprehensive mixed gender school with 893 pupils aged 12–18 years (1999 data).[ citation needed ]

In 1975 St Brides RC High School exceeded the capacity of its Platthorn Drive campus and as an interim measure took over the buildings of the then closed Old High School located at Old Mill Road in the East Mains area approximately one mile from the Platthorn Drive campus. This annex site was used to house the first-year intake for 1975, 1976 & 1977. The Old Mill Road site is now part of the South Lanarkshire College.

South Lanarkshire Council were accused of threatening academic standards by choosing to merge two academically very different schools. In 2002 St Bride's came 24th for Higher results in the national league table of 350 schools, while St Andrew's came in 227th place. [2]

Catchments

There are currently 6 primary schools who are associated with St Andrew's and St Bride's: [3]

Alumni

St. Bride's High School

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References

  1. 1 2 St Andrew’s and St Bride’s High School: School Handbook (PDF). 2023.
  2. ↑ "Anger over school merger plans". 2 April 2003. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  3. ↑ "St Andrew's and St. Bride's High School - About Us". sites.google.com. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  4. ↑ "The Rt Hon Liam Fox MP". GOV.UK. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  5. ↑ "The Superhero perspective of Frank Quitely". The Herald. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
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