Super excited to hear Duncanrig’s War Machine at tonight’s IMS Battle of the Bands in Hamilton Townhouse. We love their intro video.

Smashed it! 🤘 🎸

Our fantastic S6 Charity Captains Saoirse, Ishmit, Rona and Olivia presenting a cheque to Kilbryde Hospice for £975. Thanks to the generosity of our S1 parents for the community litter pick and parents who purchased a Christmas raffle ticket 🤗

📣NEW: Learner Interest Committee - applications open! If you're studying now, or you've completed a qualification in the last 12 months, we want to hear from you.🫵 Learn more opportunity: https://ow.ly/tPZ050Y7EmU

Our pupils had a fantastic time in conversation with Dan at Westwood House care home today. He certainly had some fascinating stories to tell!

Thank you to @glasgowtimes.bsky.social for celebrating our fabulous UNICEF UK Gold Rights Respecting Award! 🎉💛🌟 Read about our journey here ⬇️

SENIOR LANARKSHIRE CUP It was a comprehensive win for our Senior Boys yesterday at Kirktonholme against Cardinal Newman. After a slow start we picked up the pace 10/15 mins into the game and never looked back. Some lovely team goals see us into the next xl round! DUNCANRIG 6 - 1 Cardinal Newman

Senior Boys Goal Scorers Goal scorers in our 6-1 win over Cardinal Newman were: Fraser Hanney x 2 ⚽️⚽️ Finlay McKenzie x 2 ⚽️⚽️ Daniel McDermott ⚽️ Jack McNaughton ⚽️

Senior Boys Player of the Match. The player of the match in our Lanarkshire Cup win over Cardinal Newman was: BILLY MCGHEE 👑🙌💪⚽️ Well done Billy and the rest of the squad! A great team performance! TOGETHER WE ARE DUNCANRIG!

We are very proud of our school community! 💛🥳👏✨

GOAL GOAL GOAL U13 League Match Update Stonelaw 0 - 6 DUNCANRIG MATTHEW HOLLAND

GOAL GOAL GOAL U13 League Match Update Stonelaw 0 - 5 DUNCANRIG SEAN MCINNES

GOAL GOAL GOAL U13 League Match Update Stonelaw 0 - 4 DUNCANRIG

GOAL GOAL GOAL U13 League Match Update Stonelaw 0 - 3 DUNCANRIG LYLE MITCHELL

U13 League Match Update Stonelaw 0 - 2 DUNCANRIG OG JOSHUA SINCLAIR

PLAYER OF THE MATCH Our U13 Player of the Match in our League win against Holy Cross was… ZAC GILCHRIST 🙌💪👑👏 Zac was outstanding in defence and read the game so well with important tackle and interceptions against a tough opponent! Special meant to Captain Coen who was outstanding also! 🙌👏

U13 Goal Scorers! The goal scorers from our 3-1 League win vs Holy Cross were: A. Kinchington ⚽️ J. Sinclair ⚽️ H. Brand ⚽️ Well done to our Goal Scorers! Player of the Match to follow… Together We Are Duncanrig!

FOOTBALL UPDATE! U13 - A great 3-1 home win for our 13s on Wednesday against Holy Cross! Goal Scorers to follow! U16 Boys - Our 16s boys team beat Lesmahagow 2-1 in a competitive Lanarkshire Cup match. A last minute winner from R. Morris see us go into the next round of the Cup!

Our S1 students working on HTML coding. @duncanrigsecondary.org

Congratulations to Madison and Euan who both recently achieved Distinctions ⭐️ in their Grade 2 LAMDA exams 👏👏👏 🎭

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.