Queen Anne High School, Dunfermline
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| Motto | Libertatem per Probitatem (Freedom by Integrity) |
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| Type | Non-denominational |
| Rector | Miss R McFarlane |
| Location | Broomhead Parks Dunfermline Fife KY12 0PQ Scotland Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Local authority | Fife Council |
| Students | 1570 |
| Ages | 12–18 |
| Houses | Abbey, Bruce and Carnegie |
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| Website | Queen Anne High School |
Queen Anne High School is a large secondary school in the city of Dunfermline in Fife. It is named for Anne of Denmark, the queen of James VI, whose former home was the school's original location.[1]
In the 1930s it moved to the former Dunfermline High School building that lay to the north of Priory Lane. In the 1950s it moved again to a new campus at Broomhead, just to the south of its current location. In August 2003 it moved yet again 200 yards to the north, next to and encroaching upon the village of Wellwood.
In July 2014 Queen Anne High School was awarded the TES International Schools Award.[2]
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Structure
The school is divided into three houses, Abbey, Bruce, and Carnegie (named after Dunfermline Abbey, Robert the Bruce and Andrew Carnegie). Each house has a guidance team who are responsible for the pastoral care of the group of pupils who have been assigned to that particular house. The guidance teachers are located in the guidance base in the pupil support corridor. The chickens live in the quadrangle.
Queen Anne has a flat-structured management system with one Rector and five Depute Rectors.
Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
| Person | Remit |
|---|---|
| Miss R McFarlane | Headteacher |
| Miss J Campbell | Depute Headteacher (S1 and S6) |
| Mrs P Davie | Depute Headteacher (S2) |
| Mr P Billington | Depute Headteacher (S3) |
| Mrs L Martin | Depute Headteacher (S4 and S5) |
| Mr K Robertson | Depute Headteacher (Timetable, Course Choice and Systems) |
Role in the community
Queen Anne has an active role in its local community. Queen Anne's facilities are open for use to the public after the school day finishes, these include a gym, sports hall, gymnastics hall, music studio, tennis courts and football pitches. Use of these facilities is managed by the Community Use Team [3]
During the Festive Season Queen Anne pupils donate food parcels to Sheltered Homes across Dunfermline and surrounding villages.[4]
Queen Anne also plays a part in The Gambia with charity and fundraising in Queen Anne which helps fund expansion and improvement to the John Pickering Senior Comprehensive school located in the Gambia. From 2010, much of the fundraising has been put towards building a skills centre in the Gambian village of Jibboroh. Queen Anne also maintains a social link with the Gambian school as a number of pupils have formed penpals with those in Gambia.[5] Also in 2006 some Queen Anne pupils went to visit the school in the Gambia and reported the project was a success. In 2007 two members of staff from John Pickering visited Queen Anne and there was a return trip of Queen Anne pupils to the Gambia mid-2008. A group of around ten pupils now visit The Gambia biennially in June for cultural exchange.
In mid-March 2010, the Fife Area Confucius Classroom hub opened, based next to the LRC. This national initiative aims to support the learning of Chinese language and culture within Scottish schools.[6] This initiative has led to the Mandarin language being offered not only to S1-2 classes but also for SQA certification at Access level. A group of students will visit China on a World Challenge expedition in June 2012.
Education
Queen Anne High School uses the Curriculum for Excellence. This aims to achieve a transformation in education in Scotland by providing a coherent, more flexible and enriched curriculum from 3 to 18.
The curriculum includes the totality of experiences which are planned for children and young people through their education, wherever they are being educated.[7]
Notable alumni
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- Maurice Malpas- Scottish international football player with the thirteenth most caps of all time.[8]
- Robert Archibald- Basketball player in the NBA, playing for Illinois and later the Memphis Grizzlies.[8]
- Peter Wishart- former member of rockband Runrig and later a Member of Parliament.[9]
- Deborah Knox- An Olympian who won Curling Gold at the Salt Lake City winter Olympics.[8]
- Linsey MacDonald- Competed to win a bronze medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, while still a pupil at the school.
- Fraser McKenzie- Professional rugby player.
References
- ↑ The Court of the Lord Lyon on Facebook
- ↑ http://digital.tes.co.uk/TESSAWINNERSJULY2014/offline/download.pdf
- ↑ http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/atoz/index.cfm?fuseaction=facility.display&facid=3FC4C90A-E7FE-C7EA-02BAAC2E258A3B0A
- ↑ http://www.qahs.org.uk/s/get_uploaded_file.php?id=1033
- ↑ http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2007/06/15/newsstory9860309t0.asp
- ↑ Confucius Classrooms - teaching and learning about Chinese language and culture
- ↑ Curriculum for Excellence | Queen Anne High School
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Queen Anne Former Pupils
- ↑ Pete Wishart MP, Scottish National Party Member of Parliament, Perth, N.Perthshire, Scotland
