High Blantyre Primary
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High Blantyre Primary is a Scottish state sector school that provides education
for children from four years until they are eleven years.
Originally located near High Blantyre Cross, the building was a solid, imposing sandstone
building featuring eight classrooms, located centrally around a hall/dining area. Next door was a similarly statuesque headmasters house. In the early 1970s the school was showing signs of age and could no longer cope with the influx of pupils from nearby housing developments, so a new school was built further down Hunthill Road (access is actually via Broompark Road). This new school was typically 1970s in its design, featuring improved toilet facilities, a large, flat roof and multiple entrances.
Due to the poor design of the 1970s built school, a new school was built on the same land and pupils moved in on the term directly after Christmas/new year 2005.
In 2006 High Blantyre Primary was commended as an Eco-School
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
for children from four years until they are eleven years.
Originally located near High Blantyre Cross, the building was a solid, imposing sandstone
Sandstone
Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,...
building featuring eight classrooms, located centrally around a hall/dining area. Next door was a similarly statuesque headmasters house. In the early 1970s the school was showing signs of age and could no longer cope with the influx of pupils from nearby housing developments, so a new school was built further down Hunthill Road (access is actually via Broompark Road). This new school was typically 1970s in its design, featuring improved toilet facilities, a large, flat roof and multiple entrances.
Due to the poor design of the 1970s built school, a new school was built on the same land and pupils moved in on the term directly after Christmas/new year 2005.
In 2006 High Blantyre Primary was commended as an Eco-School
Links
- Information re. Eco-schools
- Map showing locations of the schools - the original was opposite Park Crescent, the 1970s school is near Swinburne Ave.