Calderside Academy is a school that is situated in Blantyre, Scotland. In 2008 Calderside Academy was opened by MSP Fiona Hyslop

Fiona Hyslop

Fiona Hyslop is the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs and Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Linlithgow.-Family life and background:...

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The school is currently being run by a Mr J Dodds, after the sad departure of the ex Acting Headteacher Freda Hutchison, as she had retired at such an old age.
In the Mathematics department, Liam MacIntyre

Liam MacIntyre

Liam MacIntyre is a shinty player from Oban, Scotland. He currently plays for Fort William Shinty Club-Playing career:MacIntyre started out his career with Oban Camanachd, a club which his family has a long connection with...

 the Shinty

Shinty

Shinty is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas in the...

player currently teaches.

Subjects Being Offered Within The Building

The subjects that this school is offering varies from a range of things, such as English, Maths, Hospitality, Music, Drama, Humanities, Latin, Classical Studies, Physical Education (PE), Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Computing, Religious Education (RE), Home Economics, Art, Computing, Business Management, and Technological Studies.

Levels being offered

Under authority of the SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority), all of the levels that the school is offering the levels Foundation, General, Credit and Intermediate 1 to Third and Fourth year pupils, whereas Fifth and Sixth year pupil have the choice as to whether or not they want to take their education even further by doing Intermediate 1, 2, Higher, or Advanced Higher.

Names Of School Houses

Arran, Lewis, Mull and Skye are the four houses that the school currently has. Each house has its own charity dedicated to it, for example, the Scottish Cot Death Trust (Skye), RSPCA (Mull) And two other charities.

External links

• School website