Happy New Year! 🎉 We are looking forward to seeing all of our staff and young people back tomorrow, ready for the term ahead! #Community #TogetherWeAreDuncanrig

We hope you enjoy your time with family during the festive holiday period and we look forward to seeing our young people back on Monday 5 January 2026! 🎄🎉🥳🎊🌲

Wishing everyone in our community a relaxing Christmas & all the best for 2026! #TogetherWeAreDuncanrig 🎄

We hope you have lovely holiday but we know that it can be a difficult time too. There are lots of services available to offer you support when you need this. Please see below: www.kooth.com togetherall.com/en-gb/mental... giveusashout.org/get-help/

Merry Christmas from everyone from the Computing Science department at Duncanrig. @duncanrigsecondary.org

Christmas ceilidh time. One of the many highlights of our year. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🕺💃🎄

Congratulations to Maddy who recently achieved a Distinction for her grade 1 LAMDA musical theatre exam. We are so proud of you. 👏👏👏🎶🎭

A festive treat from Mrs Orr’s 3I music class today. What a talented bunch of young musicians. 🎶🥁🎸🎄🧑‍🎄

We had a lovely time performing some Christmas songs to the residents of Abbey Lodge care home today. Well done to everyone involved 👏👏🎶🎄

What a fantastic Christmas concert we had on Monday. We are very proud of every pupil who took part, including those in our sound and lighting crew and our ambassadors who helped out front of house. Thanks also to Eva in S6 for the wonderful photography. 🎄🧑‍🎄🎼🎶

Some photos of our percussion ensemble from Monday’s concert.

Here’s our ceilidh ‘n folk group who got toes tapping with their performances of Everyday Heroes and Crow Flies.

Our musical theatre ensemble gave us a dramatic performance of ‘You Will Be Found’ which was followed by ’Last Christmas’ from our brass group and George Benson’s ‘Breezin‘ from our guitar trio.

Our concert finished with some groovy tunes from our soul band and some festive music from concert band. Our final number ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ brought all the performers together and says it all. Happy holidays everyone. 🎄

Our fabulous Captains and school community are very proud our Unicef Gold Rights Respecting School Award! 🥳🤩🌟💛

Success couple of weeks for Colin Johnston, representing Scotland and winning 3km Individual Pursuit in Norway🇳🇴 and following up with becoming Team Pursuit Scottish Champion as part of a four man team. @duncanrigsecondary.org

A fantastic S1 trip to the Kings Theatre to watch the Little Mermaid this week! 🎤🎼🎵🥳🤩

U15 Advanced Team Result Our U15s took on Calderglen last night in the latest EK Derby. It was a comprehensive win for Duncanrig. The team were outstanding with fast flowing football, we were clinical in the final third and kept the zero defensively. Great team performance! GoalScorers to follow

U15 Player of the Match 🐐 Our Player of the Match from our league win last night in the EK Derby vs Calderglen was… RYAN MATIMBIRA 👑🙌🫶💪 Well done Ryan and the rest of the team! Brilliant performance! Together We Are Duncanrig! 🫡

We had Ms Campbell on the hot dog stand and Mr McGibbon on the Barista bar at the finish line for our runners! 🌭☕️ Staff and pupils all dressed up for the run! We even had a Christmas dinosaur 🦖 running too!! 🎅 Well done everyone who took part! Together We Are Duncanrig! 🫶

SANTA DASH 2025 🎅🎄🎁🦌🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃 Our Annual Sponsored Santa Dash took place today and what an event it turned out to be! Our S1, S5 & S6 pupils ran the course with school Captain Ben leading the way! We had our DJs playing the Christmas tunes to keep our runners going too!

Our U13 Advanced Team travelled to Hamilton yesterday to take on St John Ogilvie in the 2nd Round of the Lanarkshire Cup. The team were outstanding scoring 7 without conceding. Player of the Match: OLLIE LITHGOW 👑💪🙌 Well done to the U13s! Together We Are Duncanrig!

November has been a #community focussed month for our S1s as they took part in a litter pick keeping the school and surrounding area clean! 🚮 Well done to over 300 S1s who braved the cold weather 🥶🤩👏

As a culmination of our very successful ‘Reading in Reg’ initiative, and as part of our ongoing Extraordinary Lives project, all S1s participated in an IDL event this week! 📚🌎🧮🚀🎨💻📰🎼🎭🇪🇸 Lots of performances, discussions, debates and investigations! Well done S1s! 🌟👏🥳

A fantastic support for our Extraordinary Lives project, which started with our P7s as a transition project and is continuing into S1 as an IDL project involving a number of curricular areas! 🌎🧮🚀🎨💻📰🎼🎭🇪🇸 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2564610...

We are delighted to share that sixteen of our young people have successfully completed their Wellbeing Champions Level 5 Award 👏👏👏Well done to you all! 🌟 They will now use their knowledge and skills to launch an S1 Buddy Programme and are very excited about supporting their peers 🤩

Thank you Miss Adams! Lots of exciting STEM opportunities for our pupils! 🔭🚀⚙️

S2 pupils had an amazing time at the Step Into STEM event at South Lanarkshire College! 👩‍🔬🔧💻 They loved meeting STEM employers and discovering all the exciting opportunities STEM has to offer! 🌟 #STEM #FutureInnovators #SouthLanarkshireCollege #STEMEducation #Inspiration #Teamwork

Well done to the amazing 1.7 who finished off their phone stands in style today. Well done also to the talented Isla who is September DET pupil of the month.

S2 & S3 pupils enjoyed the opportunity to go to The National Museum in Edinburgh as part of a STEM trip

Our STEM captains explored Oobleck, a fascinating non-Newtonian fluid, with the STEM club this afternoon. Duncanrig truly has some wonderful STEM leaders! 🚀🧪✨ #STEM #STEMleaders #learning

Wow! Congratulations Sarah! Very well deserved! 🥳👏🎉

It was lovely to host @waterstones.bsky.social at our S1 Parents Evening with a fabulous range of books! 📚 🤩 Thank you to our Reading Ambassadors for encouraging reading for enjoyment ✨🌟

Know someone sitting National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher exams next year? 💡Make sure they download a copy of Your National Qualifications - our handy guide to completing coursework and preparing for exams. It’s available online now. 👉 info.sqa.org.uk/43beMKF

We are delighted and very proud to share that we have achieved the Unicef UK’s Rights Respecting School Award at Gold! 💛 🤩🎉🥳 “It was evident that children’s rights are embedded across the school community and underpin every facet of school life” 💛 #Amition #Respect #Community

We hosted our very first Duncanrig Culture Day this week! What a wonderful celebration of our diverse community and a true example of young people leading learning! 🇳🇬🇵🇰🇮🇳🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹🇰🇷🇹🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇸🇮🇪 #community #respect #ambition Together we are Duncanrig ✨

Everyone in South Lanarkshire has the chance to get involved as the council sets its budget for next year. A public consultation has now opened as 17 savings options have been tabled to help bridge a £36 million gap over the next 2 years, with £14m needed in 2026-27 alone. https://orlo.uk/0X48i

Our fantastic S1 students recreating the cherry picker program that they started during our transition lesson. Our highest score so far is 118! @duncanrigsecondary.org

U13 Player of the Match The Player of the Match in tonight’s 4-2 win over St Andrews and St Brides… HARRISON BRAND! 🙌🏃‍♂️👑🫡 Well done Harrison and the rest of the team. Great attitude and performance! Together We Are Duncanrig! 💪

U13 LANARKSHIRE CUP RESULT DUNCANRIG 4 - 2 St Andrews & St Brides Very tough game tonight’s vs an excellent StABs team. Game of two halves with StAB going in 2-1 up at the break Duncanrig turned the game around with 3 very well worked 2nd half goals ⚽️ J Sinclair ⚽️ T Lafferty ⚽️ S Mcinnes ⚽️ H Brand

U15 LEAGUE RESULT! DUNCANRIG 7 - 0 St Andrews & St Brides Great win for our U15s as they continue their long winning streak in the league! Goals Scorers: N Baillie x3 ⚽️⚽️⚽️ C McMillan x2 ⚽️⚽️ S Duffy ⚽️ B Denniston ⚽️ Excellent performance and some top goals from our team! POTM: LEWIS SIMPSON 💪👑⚽️

A reminder that tomorrow is a staff inservice day. All young people should return to school on Tuesday. #TogetherWeAreDuncanrig

Our school captains were very proud to represent Duncanrig at the East Kilbride Remembrance service today. It was a very moving event.

A fabulous S1 Spooktacular event organised by our staff and S6 Captains 🎃👻✨🪩

SENIOR GAME DAY! Our Senior Boys team travel to Calderglen to take on Stirling High School in the first round of the Scottish Shield. KO is 3pm! COME ON DUNCANRIG! 💪⚽️🫡

U14 Boys Match Result DUNCANRIG 14 - 0 Caldervale Our U14s kicked off their season with a comprehensive win over Calderside in the preliminary round of the Scottish Shield! We now go into Round 1 in an away match vs Balfron High School. Well done the U14s Advance Boys Team! 💪⚽️🫶

U15s Match Result Lasswade 1 - 4 DUNCANRIG Our U15s had a tough 1st Round Scottish Shield match against Lasswade High School. The team performed brilliantly against a very good Lasswade side, with Sam Duffy x2, Carson McMillan and Noah Baillie with the goals POTM: Noah Baillie 💪🫡⚽️🫶

Senior Boys Match Result Cathkin 0 - 4 DUNCANRIG Our Senior Boys team got their league campaign off to a terrific start with a convincing win away to Cathkin High School. Goals from J Naismith x2, L Wynn and M Jardine. Great performance from everyone tonight! Together We Are Duncanrig 🫶💪⚽️🫡

JMB Travel are launching a Lindsayfield to Duncanrig school bus from Monday 3rd November (free with under-22 bus pass):