Duncanrig Secondary School

Duncanrig Secondary School
Junkierig Secondary School in 2012
Address
Winnipeg Drive Westwood East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, G75 8ZT Scotland
Information
School type	Public
Established	1960
Founded	1953
Opened	12 December 2008
Status	Open
Headteacher	George Wynne
Age	11 to 18
Number of students	1582 (September 2016)
Language	English
Campus	Main building with outside football & rugby fields
Houses	Avondale, Blantyre, Cathkin, Drumclog
Colour(s)	black, grey, light green
Accreditation	Scottish Qualification Authority
School roll	1582
Website	Official website

Duncanrig Secondary School was designed in 1953 by the Scottish architect Basil Spence. The school was most likely named after the farm Duncanrig in that area. The school was part of the development of the new town of East Kilbride in the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland.

Spence is perhaps better known for his design of Coventry Cathedral, the "Beehive" building in New Zealand or the British Embassy in Rome amongst many others. Although Spence was to design in the modern Brutalist mould the school he designed at East Kilbride was far from that, being entirely playful and theatrical.

A feature of the school building was a large mural by William Crosbie (1915 - 1999) representing the history of the Clyde. This was located at the main entrance, visible through a floor to roofline, two storey glass wall. Crosbie's paintings hang in all the major museums and galleries in Scotland as well as the Royal Collection and the British Museum in London, and in private collections throughout the United Kingdom and abroad.

The building was demolished in 2007. A new school was erected on the original playing fields, replacing the original building as part of South Lanarkshire's Schools modernisation programme. It officially opened in 2008. The new building was designed to be available to the community, incorporating indoor and outdoor sports facilities including a floodlit all-weather synthetic pitch, the home of the Friday Football Project.

The modernisation programme included the merger of Duncanrig Secondary School with Ballerup High School, retaining the name Duncanrig Secondary School, which was temporarily housed in the existing building until the new school was built.

Duncanrig hosts an annual concert titled "Rig Rock".

Most pupils walk to and from school or get their parents to drive them to school. Pupils in the communication support base are given free taxi rides, offered and funded by South Lanarkshire Council.

Transport buses operate for free to and from the school. Pupils stay 2 miles or more away from the school are allowed to be transported to and from school on the buses. Buses operate in the areas of the feeder school to Duncanrig with all buses arriving at 08:40, dropping children off at school. After school in Monday, Wednesday & Friday with the first departing and second at 15:10 and the final departing at 15:25. First two buses depart at 16:00 and the final departing at 16:20 on Tuesday and Thursday.

Public transport buses from First Glasgow operate in the area. Services 6, 21, 201 and M1 operate in the area. 6 & 21 operates between East Kilbride and Glasgow with 6 arriving every ten minutes and 21 arriving every 30 minutes. 201 operates between East Kilbride and Airdrie, North Lanarkshire and arrives every ten minutes. M1 operates from another suburb in East Kilbride to Hairmyres Hospital and arrives every sixty minutes