Queen Anne High School Dunfermline
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Anne of Denmark
Anne of Denmark was queen consort of Scotland, England, and Ireland as the wife of King James VI and I.The second daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark, Anne married James in 1589 at the age of fourteen and bore him three children who survived infancy, including the future Charles I...
, is a large non-denominational secondary school
Secondary school
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of around 1,700 - the ninth largest in Scotland
Scotland
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. It is located in Dunfermline
Dunfermline
Dunfermline is a town and former Royal Burgh in Fife, Scotland, on high ground from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. According to a 2008 estimate, Dunfermline has a population of 46,430, making it the second-biggest settlement in Fife. Part of the town's name comes from the Gaelic word...
, West Fife, 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...
Between the latter part of the nineteenth century and the 1930s, the school was located on a site between what is now bounded by the Kingsgate Shopping Centre, Pilmuir Street and Carnegie Drive. In the 1930s it moved to the former Dunfermline High School building that lay to the north of Priory Lane. In the 1950s it moved again to a new campus at Broomhead, just to the south of its current location. In August 2003 it moved again but this time 200 yards to the north, next to and encroaching upon the village of Wellwood.
School Structure
The school is divided into four houses (previously six), Abbey, Bruce, Carnegie and Denmark - each house with a guidance team of two teachers. Prior to 2004, each house had an Assistant Rector assigned to it however this changed when the school became more year group than house orientated and the depute rectors became Year Heads instead. Year heads no longer follow their year groups, as such the remits of the year heads are currently static.Queen Anne has a flat-structured management system with one Rector and five Depute Rectors. Most departments have their own Principal Teacher
Principal Teacher
A principal teacher , in Scotland is a promoted post that usually refers to being head of a particular department within a secondary school, in charge of running the department and ensuring it is performing to school standard, but can also refer to a 'guidance' position with responsibility for the...
(PT) however, in line with new Scottish Government guidelines the Curriculum Leader system has been adopted. As well as eight PTs for the guidance departments.
Management team
| Person | Remit |
|---|---|
| Mr J Bellshaw | Rector |
| Miss J Campbell | Head of First Year |
| Mr D Sinclair | Head of Second Year |
| Mr C Fraser | Head of Third Year |
| Mr P Billington | Head of Fourth Year |
| Mrs M Patterson | Head of Fifth and Sixth Year |
Role in the community
Queen Anne has an active role in its local community. Queen Anne's modern services are open for use to the public after the school day finishes, these include a gym, sports hall, gymnastics hall, music studio, tennis courts and football pitches.During the Festive Season Queen Anne pupils donate food parcels to Sheltered Homes across Dunfermline and surrounding villages.
Queen Anne also plays a part in The Gambia with charity and fundraising in Queen Anne which helps fund expansion and improvement to the John Pickering Senior Comprehensive school located in the Gambia.
Queen Anne also maintains a social link with the Gambian school as a number of pupils have formed penpals with those in Gambia. Also in 2006 some Queen Anne pupils went to visit the school in the Gambia and reported the project was a success. In 2007 two members of staff from John Pickering visited Queen Anne and there was a return trip of Queen Anne pupils to the Gambia mid 2008. More recently, another trip took place in July 2010 with another planned for June 2012.
In mid-March 2010, the Fife Area Confucius Classroom hub opened, based next to the LRC. This national initiative aims to support the learning of Chinese language and culture within Scottish schools.
Eco Schools
Eco Schools is an international programme to encourage whole school action for the environment. Queen Anne High School is registered with Eco Schools and worked hard in 2009 to achieve a prestigious “Green Flag” – an award which acknowledges the development of the school to become more environmentally sensitive. Our aim is to further run the school in a way that respects and enhances the environment.Green Flag
In 2009 Queen Anne High School was awarded its first Green Flag. Over the coming months the Eco Committee will be working towards achieving its 2nd Green Flag. If successful, Queen Anne High School would be the second secondary school in FifeFife
Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...
to gain this accolade.
Notable alumni
- Maurice MalpasMaurice MalpasMaurice Daniel Robert Malpas is an ex-footballer and the assistant manager at Inverness Caledonian Thistle having joined the club on 27 January 2009 along with their new manager Terry Butcher...
- Scottish international football player with the thirteenth most caps of all time. - Robert ArchibaldRobert ArchibaldRobert Michael Archibald Jr. is a Scottish professional basketball player. A 6'11" power forward-center from the University of Illinois, he was selected by the NBA club the Memphis Grizzlies with the third pick of the second round of the 2002 NBA Draft...
- Basketball player in the NBA, playing for Illinois and later the Memphis GrizzliesMemphis GrizzliesThe Memphis Grizzlies are a professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The team is part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Along with the Toronto Raptors, the Grizzlies were established in 1995 as part of the NBA's...
. - Peter WishartPeter WishartPeter "Pete" Wishart is the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament for Perth and North Perthshire. He was the SNP Chief Whip at Westminster from 2001–2007 and is currently the party's Westminster Spokesperson for the Constitution, Home Affairs, Culture, Media and Sport and International...
- former member of rockband Runrig and later a Member of ParliamentMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
. - Deborah KnoxDeborah KnoxDeborah "Debbie" Knox is a Scottish curler from Lochgelly.Knox was a member of the gold medal winning team at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She played third for Rhona Martin. She was also a member of the team again at the 2006 Winter Olympics as an alternate, however the team did not medal.-References:...
- An Olympian who won CurlingCurlingCurling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
Gold at the Salt Lake City winter Olympics.