Greenfaulds High

Greenfaulds high school is a non-denominational six year comprehensive secondary school, which was opened in 1971. Greenfaulds is situated in the west of Cumbernauld and provides a service to the Greenfaulds, Ravenswood, Condorrat, Westfield, Eastfield, Balloch areas and parts of Seafar. We have activities days in June each year during which pupils may go on foreign trips or day excursions. We value these days since they allow staff and pupils to get to know each other in situations outside the classroom.

The activities currently on offer include badminton, football, volleyball, netball and an athletics club. There is a school band and choir, karaoke sessions and the drama club are also available. The school offers our pupils' theatre visits, day trips and foreign trips. These activities are organised by staff who have special skills, talents and enthusiasm and who offer them entirely in their own time.

Apart from the classroom accommodation for subjects like English and mathematics, we have a full range of specialist accommodation for technical, home economics and science. We have seven rooms equipped with computers for use mainly in business studies, computing studies, and graphic communication, but also used for pupils' progress file completion, careers and course guidance, supported study and increasingly to enhance teaching and learning across the curriculum. Art rooms are equipped with computer and video camera facilities. The library with cd-rom and internet facilities is accessible by pupils and the school has now been networked to allow greater access to the Internet. We have a video-editing suite for media studies and excellent physical education facilities with swimming pool, a large games hall, gymnasium and fitness studio, football, hockey and rugby pitches and a full size running track. There is an excellent theatre, which is used regularly for assemblies, meetings and school shows.

A wide range of activities is offered to pupils of all ages outwith school hours. Some take place during lunchtime and others after 3.30pm. Some take the form of additional curricular support in the form of Supported Study in the run up to prelims or SQA Examinations but a wide range of extra curricular activities is also offered. These activities are organised by members of staff who give up their free time to offer an extra dimension to the education of Greenfaulds pupils. A great many pupils benefit from these activities and the good relationships between staff and pupils which are built up have a beneficial effect on the academic performance of many pupils as well as giving them a sense of belonging to the community of Greenfaulds high school. Extra curricular activities improve the positive atmosphere of the school and help to make it a welcoming place.  

The pupils of Greenfaulds high have the opportunity to contribute to the management of the school through the pupil council. Each register class elects a representative who takes the views of the class to the council and who reports back to the class on the issues discussed at the council. The role of the council is to represent the views of pupils and to be consulted by the school management on any issues, which may arise. Over last session the pupil council had a major input to the upgrading of pupil social areas and toilets, increasing substantially the availability of pupil lockers and the introduction of pupil notice boards. The council also greatly influenced the final version of the revised dress code introduced in August 2002.

The success of a school is greatly enhanced when there are good links between home and school. These links are maintained by letters home, regular parents' meetings and meetings with senior staff, talks given at school, events and meetings arranged through the school board, individual contacts with guidance or senior staff. Parents should feel well informed about what is happening in the school and be confident that they may contact the school to discuss any matter relevant to the education or well being of their children. To help keep parents informed about the life of the school, a newsletter is sent out three times each session.

School roll for session 2007/2008

S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	Total
259	206	239	240	182	92	1218

Pupil roll statistics from Scottish Government census at September 2007.  Rolls are subject to change throughout the school session

National Test Results 5-14

 Percentage (%) of pupils attaining at least Level E by the end of S2

	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003
Reading	73.1	76.9	72.2	62.6	59.1
Writing	65.1	58.7	60.1	56.1	56.5
Mathematics	73.9	60.3	55.6	55.1	52.2

Percentage (%) Attendance

	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003
Attendance	90.5	90.2	90.0	90.3	90.2

Previous years attendance and absence figures

1998 - 2001
1999 - 2002

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