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| Falkirk High School | |
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| Type | Secondary |
| Motto | Invicem Servite (Serve one another) |
| Head teacher | Stuart Kelly [1] |
| Teaching staff | 102 |
| Number of students | 1,200 |
| Color(s) | maroon/white |
| Athletics | gymnasium, swimming pool, dance/fitness suite and rugby/football pitch |
| Website | http://www.falkirk.falkirk.sch.uk/ |
Falkirk High School is a high school located in Falkirk, Stirlingshire that was founded in 1886.
It is a non-denominational six-year fully comprehensive school, situated approximately one mile from the centre of the town. It serves a widespread catchment area and has eight associated primary schools: Bainsford, Bantaskin, Carmuirs, Comely Park, Easter Carmuirs, Langlees, Limerigg and Slamannan Primary Schools.
There are four houses – Campbell (Red), Mackay (Blue), Cameron (Green) and Robertson (Yellow), which are named after the first four rectors of the school.
Roll
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Notable former teachers
edit- James Martin, Scottish Public Services Ombudsman since 2009 (taught from 1975 to 1979)
- Alexander Durie Russell FRSE (d.1955) maths teacher at Falkirk[4]
Notable alumni
edit- Craigie Aitchison, Lord Aitchison, Labour MP from 1929 to 1933 for Kilmarnock
- novelist Alan 'Alvin' Bissett
- Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Painter and Limner
- Rev Dr John Urquhart Cameron, athlete, theologian, journalist
- Prof George Stuart Gordon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1938 to 1941, President from 1928 to 1942 of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Professor of English at the University of Leeds[citation needed]
- Ian Harley, chief executive officer, Abbey National Bank from 1998 to 2002
- David Marshall, Labour MP from 2005 to 2008 for Glasgow East, and from 1979 to 2005 for Glasgow Shettleston
- Prof Gordon Marshall CBE, Vice-Chancellor from 2003 to 2011 of the University of Reading, and chairman since 2007 of the Higher Education Statistics Agency
- Donald Shaw Ramsay, was a Scottish bagpiper. Qualified as a pipe major in the British Army, he led the Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band to victory at the World Championships twice and was also leader of the all-star Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band during its four years of existence.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Falkirk High School Falkirk - Home Page". www.falkirk.falkirk.sch.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Scotland. "Falkirk High School – Falkirk – Scottish Schools Online 2011/12". Educationscotland.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ "Alexander D. Russell". Edinburgh Mathematical Notes. 40: 32. 1956. doi:10.1017/S0950184300000355.
- ^ "RSPBA - The Heart of the Pipe Band World". www.rspba.org. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016.