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Kingussie High School, Kingussie
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Kingussie High School details
- Address:
- Kingussie High School
Ruthven Road, Kingussie, Inverness-shire PH21 1ES
- Authority:
- Highland
- Type:
- Community
- Admissions:
- Comprehensive
- Gender of entry:
- Mixed
- Age range:
- 12-18
- Number of students:
- 400
- Last inspection:
- August 2005.
General information
Background: Kingussie High School is situated next to the River Spey, looking over to the Cairngorms in an area where schooling 'dates from the Columban Missionaries'. The current building was opened in 1970 and eight temporary buildings, a floodlit playing field and a technology building have since been added. The school serves the towns and villages of Kingussie, Newtonmore, Dalwhinnie, Aviemore and the surrounding rural area and its pupils benefit from a 'full outdoor education programme', more than 20 extra-curricular activities including the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, and links with a German school in the Rhineland. The school is proud of its musical tradition and its activities include concerts and ceilidhs, while it also hosts an annual local music festival. Its sporting achievements include regular local and national successes in shinty, orienteering and skiiing, in which individual pupils compete internationally. Pupil groups are regularly involved in social and community activities and links with industry and commerce include a Young Enterprise team. The school was the Scottish and European winner of the European Business Game (Ravenna 1996) and won the 1996 British Schools Orienteering Championship, while the school's folk group won a gold medal at the 1996 Festival of Festivals in London, its chemistry team reached the finals of the Royal Society of Chemistry quiz in London, its Young Engineers Club came first in the Scottish team challenge at Heriot-Watt University and its Young Enterprise Team won the Skene Award for the Highlands and Islands and came third in Scotland in 1998. Achievements in 1999 include the Highland Maths Trophy, won by the junior maths team and the MacPherson Cup for shinty, and second place in the Scotsman Merrill-Lynch Global Investment Challenge. The school aims to maintain a friendly atmosphere which merges the diversities of its local area and which encourages mutual respect, tolerance, co-operation, healthy lifestyle and an appreciation of positive human values. .
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