Falkirk High School

There are four houses – Campbell (Red), Mackay (Blue), Cameron (Green) and Robertson (Yellow), which are named after the first four rectors of the school.

• Name — Falkirk High School • Motto — Invicem Servite (Serve one another) • Type — Secondary • Head — Stuart Kelly • City — Falkirk • State — Stirlingshire • Country — Scotland • Enrollment — 1,200 • Teaching Staff — 102 • Athletics — gymnasium, swimming pool, dance/fitness suite and rugby/football pitch • Colors — maroonwhite maroon/white • 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.

• Illustration — The school's former buildings during demolition in 2009. The school moved to these utilitarian 1960s buildings from its Victorian buildings in Rennie Street in 1963. • 2004/2005 1153 • 2010/2011 1058

• James Martin, Scottish Public Services Ombudsman since 2009 (taught from 1975 to 1979) • Alexander Durie Russell FRSE (d.1955) maths teacher at Falkirk

People educated at Falkirk High School • 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 • 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.