Duncanrig Secondary School

Duncanrig Secondary School
Duncanrig Secondary School in 2013
Address
Winnipeg Drive
Westwood
East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, G75 8ZT
Scotland
Information
School type Public
Motto Together we are Duncanrig
Established 1960
Founded 1953
Opened 12 December 2008
Status Open
Headteacher Lyndsay McRoberts
Age 12 to 18
Number of students 1582 (September 2016)
Language English
Campus Main building with outside football & rugby fields
Houses Avondale, Blantyre, Cathkin and Drumclog
Colour(s) Black, Silver and Light Blue
Accreditation Scottish Qualification Authority
School roll 1582
Website Official website

Duncanrig Secondary School was designed in 1953 by the Scottish architect Basil Spence. The school was most likely named after the farm Duncanrig in that area. The school was part of the development of the new town of East Kilbride in the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland.

Spence is perhaps better known for his design of Coventry Cathedral, the "Beehive" building in New Zealand or the British Embassy in Rome amongst many others. Although Spence was to design in the modern Brutalist mould the school he designed at East Kilbride was far from that, being entirely playful and theatrical.

A feature of the school building was a large mural by William Crosbie representing the history of the Clyde. This was located at the main entrance, visible through a floor to roofline, two storey glass wall. Crosbie's paintings hang in all the major museums and galleries in Scotland as well as the Royal Collection and the British Museum in London, and in private collections throughout the United Kingdom and abroad.[1]

The building was demolished in 2007. A new school was erected on the original playing fields, replacing the original building as part of South Lanarkshire's Schools modernisation programme.[2] It officially opened in 2008. The new building was designed to be available to the community, incorporating indoor and outdoor sports facilities including a floodlit all-weather synthetic pitch, the home of the Friday Football Project.

The modernisation programme included the merger of Duncanrig Secondary School with Ballerup High School, retaining the name Duncanrig Secondary School, which was temporarily housed in the existing building until the new school was built.

Duncanrig hosts an annual concert titled "Rig Rock".[3]

Previous Headteacher George Wynne retired on 22 December 2017 and was replaced by Lyndsay McRoberts on 14 February 2018[4], for the duration of time between these dates Anna Widdowson was acting Headteacher.

Transport to school

Most pupils walk to and from school or get their parents to drive them to school. Communication Support Base Pupils are given free taxi rides, offered and funded by South Lanarkshire Council.

Transport buses operate for free to and from the school. Pupils who live 3 miles or more away from the school are allowed to be transported to and from school on the buses. Buses operate in the areas of the feeder school to Duncanrig with all buses arriving at school at 08:40. After school on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the first and second buses depart 15:10 and the final departs at 15:25. The first two buses depart at 16:00 and the final buses depart at 16:20 on Tuesday and Thursday.

Public transport buses from First Glasgow operate in the area. Services 6, 21, 201 and M1 operate in the area. Services 6 & 21 operate between East Kilbride and Glasgow with 6 arriving every ten minutes and 21 arriving every 30 minutes. Service 201 operates between East Kilbride and Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, and arrives every ten minutes. M1 operates from another suburb in East Kilbride to Hairmyres Hospital and arrives every sixty minutes.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary, 16 Jan 1999, Herald Sun Scotland".
  2. ↑ "Secondary schools modernisation programme". Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  3. ↑ http://www.scottishschools.info/duncanrig/News/Story.aspx?SectionId=aa8384d9-6565-427a-ab66-a33787d2846e&StoryId=2f52d528-0da3-4149-9917-53c1bb0682d3
  4. ↑ "Appointment of new Headteacher for Duncanrig - Duncanrig Secondary School". Duncanrig Secondary School. 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  • Sir Basil Spence Archive Project
  • Scotland Land Court. The Scots Law Times. an action against Mrs Frances Anne Pollok owner of the farm Duncanrig
  • Miles Glendinning; Ranald MacInnes; Aonghus MacKechnie (1996). A History of Scottish Architecture: From the Renaissance to the Present Day. Edinburgh University Press. pp. see p433. ISBN 0-7486-0741-2. [a] theatrical air informed some of Spence's architectural commissions in those days such as Duncanrig Secondary School
  • Brutalist Architecture in KL
  • Holmhills Wood Community Park Action Group (HWCAG) (2005). PPP School Modernisation Projects and the Loss of Open Space in Scotland.
  • Kenneth DavidsonAre public-private partnerships worth the risk?. 2003.

Coordinates: 55°45′31″N 4°12′15″W / 55.758705°N 4.204229°W / 55.758705; -4.204229


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