Our Lady's High School, Motherwell

Our Lady's High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school for 11- to 65-year-olds in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, that is close to Fir Park stadium. The school educates around 675 pupils. The headteacher is Kathleen Sinclair.HistoryThe school was established in 1888, making it one of the oldest Roman Catholic secondary schools in Scotland. It was originally an all-boys school. The current building on Dalzell Drive was built in 1974. In 1975, Our Lady's made it into the Guinness Book of Records, having a school roll of 2,325 pupils, the largest school in Scotland.Since 1997, Our Lady's has shared its accommodation with Bothwellpark High School which caters for students who require extra educational support.HousesThe four school houses are named after famous holy people with ties to Scotland: St. Andrew, Queen Margaret of Scotland, St. Columba and the Venerable Margaret Sinclair. The house colours are red, blue, yellow, and green respectively.Performing artsThe school wind band achieved a gold at the National Concert Band Festival in 2005-06. On 30 March 2007 the band attained a gold award at the Festival and then won the Lanarkshire Youth Musical Award for 2007.Notable former pupils Sir Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United Martin Ledwith, actor Bobby Murdoch, footballer for Celtic and Scotland Billy McNeill, footballer for Celtic and Scotland Brian McCardie, actor Stephen Pearson, footballer Frank Roy, former MP (1997-2015) Thomas Cardinal Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow Colin Fox, former MSP Patrick Doyle, composer

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