Education in East Renfrewshire - Schools in East Renfrewshire, Williamwood High School, St Luke's High School, St Ninian's High School (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Schools in East Renfrewshire, Williamwood High School, St Luke's High School, St Ninian's High School, Barrhead High School, Mearns Castle High School, Woodfarm High School, Eastwood High School (Newton Mearns, Scotland), Giffnock Library, Braidbar Primary School. Excerpt: Williamwood High School, located on the outskirts of Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, is a non denominational state school. It has a school roll of over 1600 pupils and was recently built, replacing the old school on Seres road in Williamwood. The new school was officially opened on 11 December 2006 by the then First Minister of Scotland, Jack McConnell MSP. The school achieves excellently in all Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education inspections and always rates very highly in the Scottish league tables, regularly coming number one in Scotland. The school also achieves well in extra curricular activities including sports, where the school has received many national and international accolades and awards. The school management say that the success of Williamwood is down to the hard work and dedication not only of the staff, but of the pupils in the school. The old school based on Seres Road was becoming old and impractical as several other schools in the area such as Netherlee Primary School became modernised, as the secondary school remained untouched. It was originally built in the 1930s with various extensions and additions, including new PE facilities and the additions of exterior Portakabin buildings as extra classrooms being added as time went on. It was announced in 2003/2004 that a new school would be built under the PPP Scheme by the private company HBG. Once built, they would take control of the school ensuring it was well maintained, replacing any broken fixtures... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7121184