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The building was demolished in 2007. A new school was built on the original playing fields, replacing the original building as part of South Lanarkshire's Schools modernization programme. It officially opened in 2008. The new building was designed to be available to the community, incorporating
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representing the history of the Clyde. This was located at the main entrance, visible through a floor to roof line, two storey glass wall. Crosbie's paintings hang in all the major museums and galleries in Scotland as well as the
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Previous headteacher George Wynne retired on 22 December 2017 and was replaced by Lynsday McRoberts on 14 February 2018; for the duration of time between these dates Anna Widdowson was acting Headteacher.
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Most pupils walk to and from school or get their parents to drive them to school. Communication Support Base Pupils are given free taxi rides, offered and funded by South Lanarkshire Council.
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Transport buses operate for free to and from the school. Pupils who live 3 miles or more away from the school are allowed to be transported to and from school on the buses.
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South Lanarkshire has 126 primary schools across the county. Fernhill School and Hamilton College also have divisions for primary pupils.
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indoor and outdoor sports facilities including a floodlit all-weather synthetic pitch, the home of the Friday Football Project.
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theatrical air informed some of Spence's architectural commissions in those days such as Duncanrig Secondary School
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Duncanrig holds an annual concert, Rig Rock, which is a multi-band based 'Battle of the Bands'.
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council area in Scotland. The original building was designed in 1953 by the Scottish architect
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The modernisation programme included the merger of Duncanrig Secondary School with
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in London, and in private collections throughout the United Kingdom and abroad.
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A History of Scottish Architecture: From the Renaissance to the Present Day
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mould, the school he designed at East Kilbride was playful and theatrical.
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PPP School Modernisation Projects and the Loss of Open Space in Scotland
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an action against Mrs Frances Anne Pollok owner of the farm Duncanrig
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Miles Glendinning; Ranald MacInnes; Aonghus MacKechnie (1996).
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Main building with outside football, hockey & rugby fields
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Public school in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
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A feature of the school building was a large mural by
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East Kilbride
South Lanarkshire
Scottish Qualification Authority
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East Kilbride
South Lanarkshire
Basil Spence
Coventry Cathedral
Brutalist
William Crosbie
Royal Collection
British Museum
Ballerup High School
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East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow

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