Claremont High School (East Kilbride)

Not to be confused with other schools with the same name, see Claremont High School for details.

Claremont High School

Motto	Endeavour
Established	1970
Closed	February 2008
Type	Secondary School
Location	High Common Road East Kilbride South Lanarkshire G74 2DA Scotland
Local authority	South Lanarkshire Council
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11–18

Claremont High School was a non-denominational, state-funded secondary school in East Kilbride. It closed in 2008 and merged with Hunter High School to form the new Calderglen High School.

Subjects

The school offered English, Maths, Modern Languages (Spanish, French and Scottish Gaelic), Music, Drama, Art, Science, P.E, Social Subjects, Home Economics and Technology.

Awards

The Music department performed considerably well in National Band Competitions, regularly winning. The Senior Wind Band won gold in the last two British Festivals in which the band was entered. In the late 1970s, school show director, Dorothy Dey, and musical director, Matt McInnes, (both teachers in the Maths department) raised the bar in terms of high quality school shows, including Oliver!, Oklahoma! and South Pacific. This tradition was continued by speech and drama teacher/director, Liz Nixon, and music teacher/musical director, Betty Pearson, in the 1980s. Particular successes of the 1980s included Godspell, The Pajama Game, Kiss Me Kate and Calamity Jane.

Studio 32

A teachers' strike in 1985 led to the establishment of Studio 32, an amateur theatre company that has since grown to be the leading community theatre company in the area. Studio 32 was named after the drama classroom in the school (A32) by the father of one of the founder members in a competition.

External Links

• Hmie Report

Coordinates: 55°45′28″N 4°09′02″W / 55.75778°N 4.15056°W / 55.75778; -4.15056