Cardinal Newman High School, Belshill
Encyclopedia
Cardinal Newman High School is a Roman Catholic, co-educational
, comprehensive
secondary school
located in Bellshill
, North Lanarkshire
, Scotland
. The school was formed by the amalgamation of Elmwood Secondary, St. Saviour's High School and St. Catherine's. The school's catchment area includes Bellshill, Mossend, Viewpark, Birkenshaw, and parts of Uddingston. The feeder Primaries are Saint Gerard's and Sacred Heart Bellshill, Holy Family Mossend, John Paul II Viewpark and part of Saint John the Baptist Uddingston. It has won multiple awards and is one of the highest ranked schools in Britain, according to HMIe
. In addition to the ordinary curriculum, it offers many vocational courses such as DTP
, Photography, Hospitality
and Digital Media.
with vivid colours. The lights have made the school an icon of the local community and the building is very visible from the M74 motorway.
The science and social studies, technical, PE, music and administrative blocks are linked to the main block around its circumference. The main block contains two dining halls plus five year-group areas, each with a discussion room and set of toilets. The first floor of the main block contains a large spacious library and resource centre, the Department of Business and IT, the staff room and the administrative area and school office.
The school foyer
is located on the first floor of the administrative block and incorporates a large theatre, which can seat 200 and a self contained adult lounge. It also houses the 'Snapdragon Restaurant' hospitality academy - a curricular partnership between Cardinal Newman High School and Motherwell College
. Snapdragon has a full professional training kitchen and restaurant and is used across the school in both curricular
and out of school hours learning activities. These include vocational courses
and community partnership events such as the senior citizens club.
Philip Flanigan, the Parish Priest of the Sacred Heart Parish. On 19 September 2010, during Pope Benedict XVI Visit to Britain, Cardinal Newman was Beatified and is now known as' Blessed' however there was no change to the Schools name.
To Celebrate the Beatification of Newman, a large Crucifix was erected at the school entrance called the "Newman Cross". This was Blessed by Cardinal O'Brien at the 2010 Awards Ceremony.
, a football referee
in the Scottish Premier League
, Scottish Football League
and UEFA
competitions, who was the principal teacher of religious education. He stood down as principal to concentrate on refereeing, but still teaches at the school.
The school was featured in the Scottish Catholic Observer
newspaper and website after a group of staff and pupils embarked on a pilgrimage
to Cofton Park
, Birmingham
to attend the beatification mass of the school's namesake.
In August 2010, at the start of the school year, the school was featured on the BBC
's Reporting Scotland
news show. The segment was designed to show-off the Scottish Executive's new Curriculum for Excellence
scheme. The segment starred Mike Russell, MSP
(the education secretary) and 6th year students from the school.
Coeducation
Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...
, comprehensive
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
secondary school
Secondary education
Secondary education is the stage of education following primary education. Secondary education includes the final stage of compulsory education and in many countries it is entirely compulsory. The next stage of education is usually college or university...
located in Bellshill
Bellshill
Bellshill is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, 10 miles south east of Glasgow city centre and 37 miles west of Edinburgh. Other nearby towns are Motherwell , Hamilton and Coatbridge . Since 1996, it has been situated in the Greater Glasgow metropolitan area...
, North Lanarkshire
North Lanarkshire
North Lanarkshire is one of 32 council areas in Scotland. It borders onto the northeast of the City of Glasgow and contains much of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It also borders Stirling, Falkirk, East Dunbartonshire, West Lothian and South Lanarkshire...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. The school was formed by the amalgamation of Elmwood Secondary, St. Saviour's High School and St. Catherine's. The school's catchment area includes Bellshill, Mossend, Viewpark, Birkenshaw, and parts of Uddingston. The feeder Primaries are Saint Gerard's and Sacred Heart Bellshill, Holy Family Mossend, John Paul II Viewpark and part of Saint John the Baptist Uddingston. It has won multiple awards and is one of the highest ranked schools in Britain, according to HMIe
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education is an executive agency of the Scottish Government, responsible for the inspection of public and independent, primary and secondary schools, as well as further education colleges, community learning, Local Authority Education Departments and teacher...
. In addition to the ordinary curriculum, it offers many vocational courses such as DTP
Desktop publishing
Desktop publishing is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal computer.The term has been used for publishing at all levels, from small-circulation documents such as local newsletters to books, magazines and newspapers...
, Photography, Hospitality
Hospitality
Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host, or the act or practice of being hospitable. Specifically, this includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, resorts, membership clubs, conventions, attractions, special events, and other services for travelers...
and Digital Media.
Senior Management Team
The Headteacher is Mrs Isabelle Boyd CBE she is assisted by her Depute Headteachers Mr Tollan, Mr Brown, Mr McGachey, Mr Smith, Mr Snee & Mrs O'Keane and Catholic Chaplain Father Michael Brown, Parish Priest of Saint Gerard's Parish.The Building
The school building is a unique design, the main teaching block is curved and covered on both ends with glass panels. As part of the council's lighting scheme, 140 window panels are lit at night by strips of LED lighting. In addition, the roof structure and plant room are lit internally by floodlightsHigh-intensity discharge lamp
High-intensity discharge lamps are a type of electrical lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten electrodes housed inside a translucent or transparent fused quartz or fused alumina arc tube. This tube is filled with both gas and metal salts. The gas facilitates the...
with vivid colours. The lights have made the school an icon of the local community and the building is very visible from the M74 motorway.
The science and social studies, technical, PE, music and administrative blocks are linked to the main block around its circumference. The main block contains two dining halls plus five year-group areas, each with a discussion room and set of toilets. The first floor of the main block contains a large spacious library and resource centre, the Department of Business and IT, the staff room and the administrative area and school office.
The school foyer
Foyer
A foyer or lobby is a large, vast room or complex of rooms adjacent to the auditorium...
is located on the first floor of the administrative block and incorporates a large theatre, which can seat 200 and a self contained adult lounge. It also houses the 'Snapdragon Restaurant' hospitality academy - a curricular partnership between Cardinal Newman High School and Motherwell College
Motherwell College
Motherwell College is a further education college located in the Ravenscraig area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The college moved into a new campus in 2009, which is located 1 km from the old site....
. Snapdragon has a full professional training kitchen and restaurant and is used across the school in both curricular
Curriculum
See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...
and out of school hours learning activities. These include vocational courses
Vocational education
Vocational education or vocational education and training is an education that prepares trainees for jobs that are based on manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic, and totally related to a specific trade, occupation, or vocation...
and community partnership events such as the senior citizens club.
School Name
The school was named after Cardinal John Henry Newman by MonsignorMonsignor
Monsignor, pl. monsignori, is the form of address for those members of the clergy of the Catholic Church holding certain ecclesiastical honorific titles. Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian monsignore, from the French mon seigneur, meaning "my lord"...
Philip Flanigan, the Parish Priest of the Sacred Heart Parish. On 19 September 2010, during Pope Benedict XVI Visit to Britain, Cardinal Newman was Beatified and is now known as' Blessed' however there was no change to the Schools name.
Departments
There are numerous departments in Cardinal Newman, including:- The Department of BiochemistryBiochemistryBiochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...
- formed by the merger of the ChemistryChemistryChemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
and BiologyBiologyBiology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
departments, - The Department of PhysicsPhysicsPhysics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
and General ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, - The Department of BusinessBusinessA business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
and ITInformation technologyInformation technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
- formed by the merger of the BusinessBusinessA business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
and ComputingComputingComputing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
departments, - The Department of Art and Design,
- The Department of Home EconomicsHome EconomicsHome economics is the profession and field of study that deals with the economics and management of the home and community...
and Professional Cookery Recently Re-named Department of Food Technology, - The Department of Speech and DramaDramaDrama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
, - The Department of Modern Languages - offering FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, - The Department of Religious EducationReligious EducationReligious Education is the term given to education concerned with religion. It may refer to education provided by a church or religious organization, for instruction in doctrine and faith, or for education in various aspects of religion, but without explicitly religious or moral aims, e.g. in a...
, - The Department of MathematicsMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, - The Department of Social StudiesSocial studiesSocial studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
- offering Modern StudiesModern StudiesModern Studies is a subject unique to the Scottish secondary school curriculum , that is concerned with the study of local, national and international issues from a social, political and economic perspective...
, HistoryHistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
and GeographyGeographyGeography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes... - The Department of MusicMusicMusic is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, - The Department of EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, - The Department of Physical EducationPhysical educationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
, - The Department of Technical Studies.
Houses
The school has Six Houses. The Guidance Teachers for each house are Mr Breckinridge (Andrew), Mrs Smith(Columba), Mrs Friel (John Ogilvie), Mr Milarvie (Kentigern), Mr Devlin(Margaret) and Mrs McGinley(Ninian). Each house has their own colour and participate in many house competitions and activities throughout the school year including Sports Day and Newman Day.Newman Week
Newman Week is a special week for the school as this is when they celebrate the Feast of their Patron Blessed Newman. Blessed Newman's Feast day is on 9 October and this is normally celebrated by a School Mass celebrated by Bishop Devine, Bishop of Motherwell and local Priest's. There is also a Newman activities day on the Friday of Newman Week. Newman Week normally takes place the week before the October Week Holiday.To Celebrate the Beatification of Newman, a large Crucifix was erected at the school entrance called the "Newman Cross". This was Blessed by Cardinal O'Brien at the 2010 Awards Ceremony.
Notable Teachers
A notable teacher at the school is Willie CollumWilliam Collum (referee)
William "Willie" Collum is a Scottish football referee.-Career:Collum has refereed international matches, the 2008 Under-19 European Championship final and in the UEFA Cup. He is also a regular referee of Scottish Premier League matches. Collum officiated his first Scottish Football League match...
, a football referee
Referee
A referee is the person of authority, in a variety of sports, who is responsible for presiding over the game from a neutral point of view and making on the fly decisions that enforce the rules of the sport...
in the Scottish Premier League
Scottish Premier League
The Scottish Premier League , also known as the SPL , is a professional league competition for association football clubs in Scotland...
, Scottish Football League
Scottish Football League
The Scottish Football League is a league of football teams in Scotland, comprising theScottish First Division, Scottish Second Division and Scottish Third Division. From the league's foundation in 1890 until the breakaway Scottish Premier League was formed in 1998, the Scottish Football League...
and UEFA
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....
competitions, who was the principal teacher of religious education. He stood down as principal to concentrate on refereeing, but still teaches at the school.
In the Media
In July 2007, the school, in conjunction with Motherwell College, received the title 'College Restaurant of the Year 2007 - Scotland and Northern Ireland'The school was featured in the Scottish Catholic Observer
Scottish Catholic Observer
The Scottish Catholic Observer is Scotland's only national Catholic newspaper, founded in 1885. It features ‘Home News’ of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland as well as regular International Church News and reports from the Vatican...
newspaper and website after a group of staff and pupils embarked on a pilgrimage
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey or search of great moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith...
to Cofton Park
Cofton Park
Cofton Park is a park located in south Birmingham, England.-History:The 135 acres of land land was acquired by Birmingham City Council in 1933 for £10,640 , from the trustees for William Walter Hinde...
, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
to attend the beatification mass of the school's namesake.
In August 2010, at the start of the school year, the school was featured on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's Reporting Scotland
Reporting Scotland
Reporting Scotland is BBC Scotland's national television news programme. The programme first aired on 1 April 1968, with three main presenters - the most famous being Mary Marquis...
news show. The segment was designed to show-off the Scottish Executive's new Curriculum for Excellence
Curriculum for Excellence
Curriculum for Excellence is the national curriculum for Scottish Schools for learners from age 3 to 18. It was developed out of a 2002 consultation exercise – the 'National Debate on Education' – undertaken by the Scottish Executive on the state of school education...
scheme. The segment starred Mike Russell, MSP
Member of the Scottish Parliament
Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.-Methods of Election:MSPs are elected in one of two ways:...
(the education secretary) and 6th year students from the school.
External links
- HMIE Report
- http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scottishschoolsonline/schools/cardinalnewmanhighschoolnorthlanarkshire.aspCardinal Newman's page on LTS'sLearning and Teaching ScotlandLearning and Teaching Scotland is a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, formed by the merger of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum and the Scottish Council for Educational Technology...
'Scottish Schools Online']