Lourdes Secondary School is a Roman Catholic denominational state school in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

 that serves the south side boroughs of Mosspark

Mosspark

Mosspark is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde, in the south-west of the city.-History:Mosspark and the lands of East and Mid-Henderston were incorporated into Glasgow in 1909...

, Crookston

Crookston, Glasgow

Crookston is a residential suburb on the southwestern edge of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.Formerly a village in its own right, Crookston and its surrounding lands and castle , were named after the feudal Norman lord, Robert Croc, who was gifted the Levern valley in Renfrewshire by King David I...

, Govan

Govan

Govan is a district and former burgh now part of southwest City of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated west of Glasgow city centre, on the south bank of the River Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Kelvin and the district of Partick....

, Pollok

Pollok

Pollok is a large district on the south-western side of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It was built to house families from the overcrowded inner city...

, Craigton

Craigton

Formerly farming land for the Township of Govan, Craigton is a residential suburb in the southwest of the Scottish city of Glasgow. It borders Cardonald, Govan and Bellahouston Park. It has a primary school, Craigton Primary School, a small industrial estate and a number of shops lining Paisley...

, Penilee

Penilee

Penilee is a small housing scheme and suburb on the southwestern edge of Glasgow, Scotland. The area is bounded to its east by the Glasgow suburbs of Cardonald and Hillington, and to the west by the Renfrewshire border and the farms of North and South Arkleston...

, Hillington

Hillington, Glasgow

Hillington is a residential suburb and an industrial estate on the southwestern edge of the Scottish city of Glasgow. Whilst the residential area is wholly within Glasgow, the greater part of the industrial estate falls under the jurisdiction of neighbouring Renfrew, although for business...

 and Ibrox, and was opened in 1956. The school neighbours Nazareth House and Cardonald College

Cardonald College

Cardonald College is a medium-sized Further education institute located in Glasgow's South Side, in Scotland. Officially opened in 1972, it has over 12,000 full-time and part-time students. Cardonald college takes both students who have just left school and mature students.The Main Campus is...

.

Grounds

The building is designed around a quadrangle housing collections of shrubbery and pond life. Until recently, this area featured a large flowerbed imitation of the school crest that was designed and planted by pupils as part of the celebrations for the new millennium.

It consists of one large main building, originally designed by Thomas Smith Cordiner and constructed in the 1950s and with an extension added in the 1970s. The school boasts over fifty teaching classrooms, with dedicated areas for science, technical, home economics and music/drama. Three astroturf pitches, several gymnasiums, a games hall and a large internal garden area also make up the school grounds. The school underwent extensive refurbishment in 2002, in line with the City Council's Project 2002 programmer of school refurbishments.

Sport

The Basketball team were the Glasgow Schools Basketball Champions in 2005. Winning The Scottish cup, The Glasgow League, Glasgow Cup and Glasgow Youth Games.

Notable former pupils

• Tommy Coyne
  Tommy Coyne
  Thomas "Tommy" Coyne is a former international footballer who played for the Republic of Ireland team due to his Irish ancestry.- Club career :...
  
  , footballer
• Tommy Craig
  Tommy Craig
  Thomas "Tommy" Craig is a Scottish football coach and former player who is currently the assistant manager of Scottish club St. Mirren. Craig had an 18 year playing career as a midfielder, playing over 100 league games for English clubs and...
  
  , footballer
• Barry Douglas
  Barry Douglas (footballer)
  Barry Douglas is a Scottish footballer who plays for Scottish Premier League club Dundee United as a left back...
  
  , footballer
• Dean Keenan
  Dean Keenan
  Dean Matthew Keenan is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Ayr United. He previously played for Clydebank and Greenock Morton.-Career:...
  
  , footballer
• David McCracken
  David McCracken
  David McCracken is a Scottish footballer who plays for Scottish side St.Johnstone. McCracken had played his whole career in central defence for Dundee United in the Scottish Premier League before leaving in May 2007 and signing for Wycombe Wanderers. He subsequently played for Milton Keynes Dons...
  
  , footballer
• David O'Hara
  David O'Hara
  David O'Hara is a Scottish actor.-Life and career:O'Hara was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Martha and Patrick O'Hara, a construction worker....
  
  , actor
• Tommy Sheridan
  Tommy Sheridan
  Tommy Sheridan is a Scottish socialist politician. He has had various prominent roles within the socialist movement in Scotland and is currently one of two co-convenors of the left-wing Scottish political party Solidarity....
  
  , politician
• Peter Mullan
  Peter Mullan
  Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and film-maker who has been appearing in films since 1990.-Early life:Mullan, the sixth of eight children, was born in Peterhead in the northeast of Scotland, the son of Patricia, a nurse, and Charles Mullan, a lab technician who worked at Glasgow University. He...
  
  , actor & director

External links

• Lourdes Secondary School's page on Scottish Schools Online