St Constantine's
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.
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Key facts
• Name — St Ninian's High School • Motto — In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas (unity in necessary things; liberty in doubtful things; charity in all things) • Established — 1874 • Type — Comprehensive • Religious Affiliation — Roman Catholic • Head Label — Headteacher • Head — David Killin • R Head Label — Deputies • R Head — Garry Mulgrew (S1/S3) Suzanne Boyle (S2) David Sheeran (S6) Steven Rance (S4/S5) • Address — Bellfield Road • City — Kirkintilloch • County — East Dunbartonshire • Country — Scotland • Postal Code — G66 1DT • Local Authority — East Dunbartonshire • Enrolment — 829 • Gender — Coeducational • Lower Age — 11 • Upper Age — 18 • Houses — St. Andrews St. Mungo St. John Paul St. Margaret Of Scotland St. John Ogilvie St. Teresa Of Calcutta • Colours — tie colours • faac58 crest colours • Website — http: www.st-ninians.e-dunbarton.sch.uk
Admissions
Admissions
There are currently over 900 students in attendance with an average of 5/6 classes in each year. Each class has no more than 30 pupils. St Ninians is a Roman Catholic School.
Academic performance
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
History
St Ninian's opened in 1874 in the town centre on Union Street. The school then moved to a new site in 1931 on the sight of the former Westermains House on Bellfield Road. It then 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.
Feeder schools
Feeder schools
• Holy Family Primary School, Lenzie. • Holy Trinity Primary School, Kirkintilloch. • St Nicholas' Primary School, Bearsden. • St Machan's Primary School, Lennoxtown.
School roll
• School year — S1 — S2 — S3 — S4 — S5 — S6 — Total Roll — References • 2000/2001 — |740 • 2001/2002 — 713 • 2002/2003 — 142 — 119 — 157 — 117 — 104 — 85 — 724 • 2003/2004 — | • 2004/2005 — 764 • 2005/2006 • 2006/2007 — 141 — 135 — 147 — 159 — 108 — 58 — 748 • 2007/2008 — 145 — 141 — 139 — 142 — 132 — 61 — 760 • 2008/2009 — 135 — 145 — 140 — 135 — 108 — 86 — 749 • 2009/2010 — 116 — 137 — 154 — 140 — 127 — 83 — 757 • 2010/2011 — 779 • 2011/2012 — 107 — 136 — 126 — 151 — 126 — 105 — 751 • 2012/2013 — 128 — 113 — 148 — 131 — 142 — 97 — 759 • 2013/2014 — 125 — 136 — 120 — 143 — 111 — 108 — 743 • 2014/2015 — 128 — 133 — 137 — 121 — 126 — 89 — 734 • 2015/2016 — 136 — 126 — 138 — 135 — 118 — 107 — 760 • 2016/2017 — 142 — 140 — 126 — 136 — 117 — 89 — 750 • 2017/2018 — 176 — 150 — 144 — 126 — 116 — 88 — 800
Notable former pupils
• Theresa Breslin (born 1947), author • Peter Capaldi (born 1958), actor • Stephen Crainey (born 1981), footballer • Karamoko Dembélé (born 2003), footballer • Joseph Devine (1937 – 2019), Bishop of Motherwell • Joe Docherty, Baron Docherty of Milngavie (born 1969), Labour peer • John Hendrie (born 1963), footballer • Aaron Hickey (born 2002), footballer • Des McKeown (born 1970), footballer • Charlie Mulgrew (born 1986), footballer • Bishop Ian Murray (born 1932), Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles • Katie Sutherland, musician (Pearl and the Puppets) • Kieran Tierney (born 1997), footballer • Paul Wilson (born 1950), footballer
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Celtic Youth Academy
St Ninian's High, in partnership with Celtic F.C., allows the Celtic Academy players, who are pupils in S1 to S5, to combine intensive coaching sessions with a programme of studies based on continental methods, where everything is monitored including behaviour and homework.
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- 1.Scotland.gov.uk. List of Primary Schools with pupil roll information. September 2012.
- 2.Thefreelibrary.com. Scottish Secondary Schools League Tables. 30 November 2001.
- 3.Thefreelibrary.com. HOW YOUR SCHOOL IS RATED IN EXAM TABLE; Find out how every school in Scotland performed in the academic stakes with our easy-to-follow guide. 27 November 2002.
- 4.Scotland.gov.uk. List of Primary Schools with pupil roll information. September 2003.
- 5.Thefreelibrary.com. HOW DID YOUR SCHOOL DO. 15 December 2005.
- 6.Scotland.gov.uk. List of Primary Schools with pupil roll information. September 2011.
- 7.Scotland's best teacher meets the PM at No 10. Evening Times. 5 November 2009.
- 8.Forbes, Dave. St.Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch at. Flickr.
- 9.TES. Celtic boys get shot at their goal. 6 November 2009.
- 10.Alison McConnell. SCOTTISH FOOTBALL IN CRISIS: Celtic lead way in pioneering project to educate tomorrow's footballers. Herald Scotland. 18 November 2009.
- 11.Kirkintilloch Herald. Celtic link-up with Kirkintilloch high school is a net result for all!. 22 March 2012.
- 12.st-ninians.e-dunbarton.sch.uk. St Ninians - Famous Ex-Pupils.
- 13.Burlaga, Kate. Karamoko Dembele: the lowdown on Celtic's 13-year-old prodigy. Sky Sports. 12 October 2016.
- 14.BBC News. Tribute to Bishop Devine.
- 15.Aaron Hickey details his Karamoko Dembele lessons as Hearts kid upstages school pal Gary Ralston, Daily Record (May 26, 2019)
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