Established 1978 Headteacher Douglas Brown Ages 11–18 Founded 1978 Gender Mixed-sex education | Students 912 (Sept 2010) Phone +44 141 955 2358 Staff 74 | |
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Location Inveroran DriveBearsdenEast DunbartonshireG61 2PLScotland Address Inveroran Dr, Inveroran Drive, Glasgow G61 2PL, UK Motto Wisdom, Justice, Compassion and Integrity Feeder schools Killermont Primary School, Westerton Primary School, Colquhoun Park Primary School Similar Bearsden Academy, Douglas Academy, Bishopbri Academy, The Glasgow Academy, Turnbull High School | ||
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Boclair Academy is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school located in the Greater Glasgow suburb of Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The school serves pupils aged 11–18 from Southern Bearsden, Westerton and Torrance. Boclair Academy is affiliated with four local primary schools within its catchment area, Westerton Primary School, Killermont Primary School, Colquhoun Park Primary School and Torrance Primary School Schools. The school's exam achievement has improved in recent years, in 2011 27% of S5 gained at least 5 Higher passes (A-C), which placed it 21st in Scotland for a state school.
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History and recent upgrades
Boclair Academy was built in 1976 to meet increased demand in the area; initially the school accommodated overflow with Douglas Academy and Bearsden Academy but later the school had an increased number of placing requests from outside East Dunbartonshire. In 1998, because the school was over capacity, an annex was erected for the Maths department.
In June 2016, Rangers F.C. announced a partnership with East Dunbartonshire Council which saw 24 of the club's youth players aged 11 to 15 attend Boclair Academy to allow them to combine their academic and football studies. The school is located close to the Rangers training ground at Auchenhowie.
HMIe inspection
The school's last inspection was carried out in January 2009 by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (merged in 2011 with Learning and Teaching Scotland to form Education Scotland). The report, published 17 March 2009, was largely positive and praised the following particular strengths:
HMIe also agreed the following areas for improvement with the school and education authority:
The inspection of the school was accompanied by an inspection of the learning community surrounding Boclair Academy. There was also a follow through report, which evaluated the school's progress, published by East Dunbartonshire Council in February 2011.
Dress code and uniform
The following is according to the 'student planner' 2013-2014 issued to all pupils (see Bibliography below)
Campus
The school is spread over four buildings within its 16 acres (65,000 m2) site. The main building contains an assembly hall, dining area, staff room, pupil social areas, green house and classrooms over five floors for Art, English, Home Economics, Business & IM, Modern Languages, Social Subjects and Science. There are separate buildings for Technical, Physical Education (which has its own swimming pool) and mathematics which is housed in a 'temporary' annex.
Physical Education
The PE department has a swimming pool. It also has a variety of equipment to cater for sporting activities within two games halls (used for gymnastics, circuit training, social dance, badminton, basketball, football, and indoor games such as Danish Longball) and an outside area consisting of two all-weather pitches for football and hockey, two grass rugby pitches, and spare grass areas used for football. In the PE building upstairs there is a fitness room.
Modern Languages
French, Spanish, German are taught depending on course choices available and picked.
RMPS
The Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies department runs a chess club and a debating society which has produced finalists in the Junior English-Speaking Union Scotland debating competition and more recently semi finalists in the Law Society of Scotland Donald Dewar Memorial Competition. It also runs a novelty 'rock, paper, scissors club' every so often in place of chess/debating clubs when they cannot run.
Other
There are other activities within the school including a school magazine, which won several awards in the Scottish school magazine awards 2008, a number of school trips run by lots of departments and after school supported study groups around exam time for specific subjects.
In the news
Popular culture
Scottish musician Tommy Reilly, the winner of Orange unsigned act 2008, was a pupil at the school until 2007.
The school building has been used for several sketches in the second series of Burnistoun. (see Bibliography below)