Bearsden Academy

Infobox UK school
name = Bearsden Academy


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latitude = 55.9264
longitude = -4.3312
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motto = "Committed to Excellence"
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established = 1911
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type = State secondary school
religion = Non-denominational
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head_label = Head Teacher
head = George Cooper
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chair_label = Chair of Parent Council
chair = Iain Pringle [cite web|title=Parent Council|url=http://www.bearsdenacademy.e-dunbarton.sch.uk/page_viewer.asp?section=Parent+Council&sid=10&page=Members&pid=144|accessdate=2008-04-07]
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street = Morven Road
city = Bearsden
county = East Dunbartonshire
country = Scotland flagicon|Scotland
postcode = G61 3SU
LEA = East Dunbartonshire
ofsted =
staff = c. 100 cite web
title=Scottish Schools Online 2007
url=http://www.scottishschoolsonline.gov.uk/schools/bearsdenacademyeastdunbartonshire.asp
accessdate=2008-04-07]
enrollment = c. 1200
gender = Coeducational
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
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colours = Navy blue, red, gold and green
publication = The BAnner
Accreditations= Investors in People
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website = http://www.bearsdenacademy.e-dunbarton.sch.uk
website_name = Bearsden Academy

Bearsden Academy is a non-denominational, state secondary school in Bearsden, a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland.

ite and Buildings

The school was founded in 1911, sharing a building at Bearsden Cross with Bearsden Primary School. This building is still in use as the current Bearsden Primary site. In 1958, the school moved to its current location at Morven Road, where a new games hall and library were recently built. Bearsden Academy is now part of the East Dunbartonshire public-private partnership (PPP) project, which will see the new Bearsden Academy building opened in 2009, on the former site of St Andrews College. The current site will be redeveloped as a housing estate to be known as "Academy Grove" [cite web
title=Gladedale Group - Academy Grove
url=http://www.gladedale.com/html/locations/scotland/location_region_scot_bears.htm
accessdate=2008-04-07] .

The main building houses the majority of the core subject departments, including English, Maths, Science, Music, PE and Design & Technology. Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies (RMPS), Art, and Geography are taught in the "New" Building, which was built around 1970. Biology, Business Management and Social Sciences are taught in the nine annexes to the school. The main building also houses the school offices, Assembly Hall, Canteen and two gymnasia, with the new library having been added in 2003. Before building work began for the housing estate, the school had 2 gravel pitches and 2 grass pitches. It also has really nice houses behind it, in Russell Drive.

Feeder Schools

* Baljaffray Primary School
* Bearsden Primary School
* Castlehill Primary School
* Mosshead Primary School
* St Andrews Primary School

Notable alumni

*Brian MacKinnon, man who posed as a teenager to get into medical school

References

External links

* [http://www.bearsdenacademy.e-dunbarton.sch.uk Bearsden Academy's home page]
* [http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/bearsdenacademyeastdunbartonshire.asp Bearden Academy's page on Scottish Schools Online]