Not to be confused with other schools with the same name, see Claremont High School

Claremont High School

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Claremont High School was a non-denominational, state-funded secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 in East Kilbride

East Kilbride

East Kilbride is a large suburban town in the South Lanarkshire council area, in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland. Designated as Scotland's first new town in 1947, it forms part of the Greater Glasgow conurbation...

. It closed in 2008 and merged with Hunter High School to form the new Calderglen High School

Calderglen High, East Kilbride

Calderglen High School, commonly referred to as Calderglen, is a state-run secondary school in the St Leonards area of the Scottish new town East Kilbride, in South Lanarkshire. The complex of buildings is situated on the precipitous bank of the Rotten Calder Water, overlooking a meander named the...

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Subjects

The school offered English, Maths, Modern Languages (Spanish, French and Scottish Gaelic), Music, Drama, Art, Science, P.E, Social Subjects, Home Economics and Technology.

Awards

The Music department performed considerably well in National Band Competitions, regularly winning. The Senior Wind Band won gold in the last two British Festivals in which the band was entered. In the late 1970s, school show director, Dorothy Dey, and musical director, Matt McInnes, (both teachers in the Maths department) raised the bar in terms of high quality school shows, including Oliver!, Oklahoma! and South Pacific. This tradition was continued by speech and drama teacher/director, Liz Nixon, and music teacher/musical director, Betty Pearson, in the 1980s. Particular successes of the 1980s included Godspell, The Pajama Game, Kiss Me Kate and Calamity Jane.

Studio 32

A teachers' strike in 1985 led to the establishment of Studio 32, an amateur theatre company that has since grown to be the leading community theatre company in the area. Studio 32 was named after the drama classroom in the school (A32) by the father of one of the founder members in a competition.

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