Lenzie Academy
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TitleLenzie Academy
ReferenceSC22
Date1886-2001
Archive creatorLenzie Academy
Scope and ContentAdmission Registers, 1886-1969; School Fees, 1934-1951; Mark Books, 1934-1966; Pupil Records, 1946-1963; Rector's Papers, 1925-1963; Annual Reports, 1978-2001; School Magazines, 1971-1994; School Newsletters, 1993-2003; Reports and Information Booklets, c 1978-1995; News Cuttings, 1934-1995; Memorabilia, 1880-1993; Photographs, 1924-1997 [to be listed].
Extent1m
LanguageEnglish
Archival historySubsequent to the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 there was a public movement by the ratepayers of Lenzie to secure for themselves a Public School. This movement led to the formation of the Combination School Board in 1886, which had three members each from the parishes of Kirkintilloch and Cadder. They purchased their feu for the school from the Lenzie School & Meeting House Association and erected a new block to add to the existing buildings on the site, in which a private school had been conducted for many years by Mr. Donald McQuarrie.
The first rector of the school was Mr Alexander Buchanan M.A. and originally the school's curriculum was chiefly directed towards preparation for local exams and the preliminary exams for entry into Glasgow University. However in the early 1900s an application to the Department of Education for Lenzie Academy to be recognised as a Training Centre was approved by the Combination Board, and although the plans for modernisation of the school to comply with this new recognition required demolition of part of the original building, it provided the school with a hall, extra classrooms, science laboratory, art and cookery rooms. The modernised Lenzie Academy opened in 1910.
In 1960 the primary and secondary divisions of the school split, the former beng renamed Lenzie Primary School and remaining in the original Lenzie Academy buildings, and the latter moving to the present site and retaining the name Lenzie Academy.
The first rector of the school was Mr Alexander Buchanan M.A. and originally the school's curriculum was chiefly directed towards preparation for local exams and the preliminary exams for entry into Glasgow University. However in the early 1900s an application to the Department of Education for Lenzie Academy to be recognised as a Training Centre was approved by the Combination Board, and although the plans for modernisation of the school to comply with this new recognition required demolition of part of the original building, it provided the school with a hall, extra classrooms, science laboratory, art and cookery rooms. The modernised Lenzie Academy opened in 1910.
In 1960 the primary and secondary divisions of the school split, the former beng renamed Lenzie Primary School and remaining in the original Lenzie Academy buildings, and the latter moving to the present site and retaining the name Lenzie Academy.
Persons keywordLenzie Academy; 1960-
Level of descriptionfonds
Repository nameEast Dunbartonshire Archives - Kirkintilloch
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