St Ninian's High School, Giffnock

St Ninian's High School is a six-year co-educational Roman Catholic state high school in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, Scotland. The school, which opened in 1984, serves the areas of Giffnock, Clarkston, Thornliebank, Woodfarm, Newton Mearns, Eaglesham and Busby in East Renfrewshire and Arden, Darnley, and Deaconsbank in Glasgow. The school roll was 1,714 as of September 2005, and the Head Teacher is John Docherty. The school's motto is "Floreat Iuventus" which translates as "Let youth Flourish".

Overview

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St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch

St. Ninian's High School is a Roman Catholic co-educational comprehensive secondary school, located in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, on the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal.

Admissions

There are currently over 700 students in attendance with an average of 5 classes in each year. Each class has no more than 30 pupils. St Ninians is a Roman Catholic School, and, as quoted in their website:

School roll

Academic performance

The school has consistently proved to be successful in a number of different areas – SQA results, the Charter Mark award, Investors in People recognition and the Scottish Education Award for “Raising Basic Standards”. In 2008, David Miller, an English Teacher, won the UK Secondary Teacher of the Year at the National Teaching Awards, and, in 2009, Headteacher Paul McLaughlin won the Scottish Secondary Head Teacher of the Year.

History

St Ninian's opened in 1874. The school moved from Bellfield Road to the former Thomas Muir campus in Bishopbriggs during the demolition and complete rebuild of the Bellfield Road Campus. As of August 2009, is back in Bellfield Road.

Kirkintilloch

Coordinates: 55°56′08″N 4°09′17″W / 55.93568°N 4.15469°W / 55.93568; -4.15469

Kirkintilloch (/ˌkɜːrkᵻnˈtɪləx/; Scottish Gaelic: Cair Cheann Tulaich) is a town and former royal burgh in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It lies on the Forth and Clyde Canal, about 8 miles (13 km) northeast of central Glasgow. The town is the administrative centre of the East Dunbartonshire council area, and its population in 2009 was estimated at 19,700.

Toponymy

"Kirkintilloch" comes from the Gaelic Cair Ceann Tulaich or Cathair Cheann Tulaich, meaning "fort at the end of the hill". This, in turn, may come from a Cumbric name, Caer-pen-taloch, which has the same meaning. A possible reference to the site is made in the 9th century Welsh text Historia Brittonum, in which the Antonine Wall is said to end at 'Caerpentaloch'. The fort referred to is the former Roman settlement on the wall and the hillock is the volcanic drumlin which would have offered a strategic viewpoint for miles to the West, North and East. The etymology is sometimes taken literally as "Kirk in tilloch" ("church in the field"). Its long name is often shortened by locals to the colloquial Kirkie or Kirky, as reflected in a number of business names in the town.