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Sep 15, 2010 · The first Catholic comprensive school in Scotland, St Augustine's Secondary School, Milton, Glasgow, was formally opened on Thursday 9 Septmber 1954 by the then Lord Provost of Glasgow,...
The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 opened formal education to all children, and placed local control and funding of schools in the hands of school boards. Surviving records of school boards...
The High School of Glasgow was founded as the Choir School of Glasgow Cathedral around 1124. It is the oldest school in Scotland and the twelfth oldest in the United Kingdom. Wikipedia - High School of Glasgow. Statues on The High School Building. Homer, Cicero, Galileo, James Watt.
May 20, 2020 · An ‘ideal’ but not popular quasi-ecclesiastical neo-Gothic was adopted in the 1850s, but a simpler secular Scottish-inspired neo-Gothic was also introduced: it became the dominant architectural style for many new post-1872 elementary Catholic schools in Glasgow and the West.
Apr 12, 1997 · Set up in Monteith Row in 1847 by two young Franciscan nuns, who had come from France to found the first religious order in Glasgow since the Reformation, the school was the first Catholic...
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Most Catholic schools were founded as Parish schools, funded by the local parish and often housed in the local parish premises. A number of religious congregations founded schools to provide the benefits of Catholic education, often for the poorest communities.
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Holyrood Secondary School is a Roman Catholic secondary school in the south-side of Glasgow, Scotland. It is notable for its comparatively large secondary school enrollment, having had over 2,000 pupils and 150 teaching staff.
