St David's Roman Catholic High School Explained

St David's RC High School
Street:1 Cousland Road
Country:Scotland
Postcode:EH22 2PS
Grades Label:Years
Grades:S1 to S6
Religious Affiliation:Roman Catholic
Opened:1948
Local Authority:Midlothian Council
Head Teacher:Donny MacDonald
R Head Label:Depute Head teachers
R Head:Kerry Lewis and Kathryn Williamson
Campus Type:Joint campus
Houses:St Nicholas, St Cecilia
Motto:Mundum Pro Christo
(Conquer The World for Christ)
Free Label:School Tie Colours
Free Text: Maroon with blue stripes worn by S1-S4
Light Blue tie worn by S5
Maroon tie worn by S6

St David's Roman Catholic High School is a Catholic secondary state school located at Cousland Road in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. It has shared the same campus with Dalkeith High School since 2003.

Pupils

The school had a roll of almost 800 pupils in 2012. 75% of St David's pupils come from associated Catholic primary schools in Midlothian and East Lothian.

History

St David's High School was established in Dalkeith in 1948. In August 1966 the school moved to Abbey Road in what were originally the grounds of Newbattle Abbey. In November 2003, St. David's was integrated into the Dalkeith Schools Community Campus along with Dalkeith High and Saltersgate School, a special education facility, making it the first such joint secondary school campus in Scotland.[1] After the move, teachers kept students separated from each other in the dining hall and on the playground, citing concern that younger pupils might become disoriented by the sudden transformation of their small school into a large, integrated organisation with 2,200 youths. They initially predicted that the regime of segregation could be relaxed within a few weeks, and that religious factors played no role in their decision;[2] by January 2004, teachers at Dalkeith and St. David's still told their pupils not to talk to pupils from the other school, and students were kept segregated due to threats of violence directed at one another and teachers of different religious backgrounds in addition to assaults.[1]

School of Football

St David's High School are currently in their second year of delivering the School of Football program and are intending to introduce a new S1 group each year for the foreseeable future.

Notable former students

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External links

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Notes and References

  1. News: The Times. Lesson in bigotry as pupils shun integration. 22 January 2004. 15 February 2008 . London . Gillian . Harris.
  2. News: School segregation defended. BBC News. 3 November 2003. 15 February 2008.
  3. Web site: Scotland star to be added to hall of fame - News . Scotsman.com . 3 March 2009 . 18 December 2011.