It’s wonderful to welcome our partner primary musicians to the Duncanrig Primary Orchestra 2026. Such a talented bunch of young people who are already thriving a creating a fantastic sound with support from our secondary pupils and IMS instructors. We’re looking forward to hearing how they progress.

Mrs Orr’s S3 class are getting World Cup ready with their performance of ‘Yes Sir I Can Boogie’. Go Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽️

It was a privilege to host the Faroe Islands National Youth Wind Band for a joint concert with the Duncanrig Secondary School band. Such talent on display from both ensembles. Safe travels and good luck with the rest of your Scottish tour! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇴

Rig Rock 2026 winners, Inner Mind 🎸🤘Thank you to our judges from local music shop, Village Music, Riverside Music College and Universal Connections for your generous prizes and for making the very difficult decisions.

Thank you to our Creative Industries class for all your help with organising Rig Rock 2026! They designed posters and tickets, took responsibility for marketing and ticket sales, helped out with set up and ran a glitter tattoo stall and tuck shop. We are very proud of everything they have achieved.

Rig Rock 2026 🤘🎸

Rig Rock 2026 🤘🎸

RigRock 2026!! 🤘🎸 What a way to end the term.

Huge congratulations to S6 pupil Sarah who was awarded the runner up prize at South Lanarkshire’s Young Musician of the Year. We are so proud of everything you have achieved during your time at Duncanrig and wish you well with your future studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 🎷🎶👏👏👏

Congratulations to S2 pupil, Grace who recently achieved a merit for her Grade 3 euphonium exam. 👏🎶

A huge well done to our Ceilidh ‘n Folk group led by Mr McLean who achieved a ‘first class’ award at the Glasgow Music Festival today. Some fine playing from them all. We are very proud. 👏👏🎶🥁🎻

Some more photos from Wednesday’s workshop.

Huge thanks to Charlie from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland who came out to do a great musical theatre workshop with our pupils. They had a great time! 🎶🎭

Congratulations to Emily who recently achieved a well deserved merit for her Grade 2 piano exam 🎹🎶

Smashed it! 🤘 🎸

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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. 🎄🧑‍🎄🎼🎶

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

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

We are incredibly proud of S6 pupil Sarah who has been awarded a coveted place on the BMus course to study saxophone at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. What an exciting next step in her musical journey!!! 🎉🎷🎼🎶

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

Thank you to our wonderful Music and Drama ambassadors for helping to showcase our subjects at tonight’s P7 open evening. You truly are a credit to our school. 👏👏👏🎼🎭

We are so proud of our musical theatre ensemble who brought the house down at last night’s Touch a Life concert with their amazing performance. Well done to each and every one of them. 👏👏👏

Our wonderful Musical Theatre ensemble are ready to perform their showstopper ‘You Will Be Found’ from Dear Evan Hanson at tonight’s Touch a Life charity concert in Hamilton Townhouse. They are going to be amazing! 🎤🎶

Final batch from our fantastic performers at the Extra Curricular Fayre today 🎶🎭

Some more Extra-Curricular Fayre!

We had a great at time at @duncanrigsecondary.org's Extra Curricular Fayre today. We changed the usual format and held a concert featuring superstars from a number of our extra curricular groups. Well done everyone who performed!

I think it’s fair to say that our pupils were happy to hear that this year’s show will be …….. Legally Blonde!!!! Get ready for an energetic, fun-filled production packed with music, laughs and lots of pink!!! 💕

Our senior singers are very excited about taking in part in today’s South Lanarkshire Instrumental Musical Service vocal day with over 185 pupils from all over the authority. Can’t wait to hear them sing. 🎶

Congratulations to S1 pupil Ellis who recently a merit for his Grade 4 piano and a distinction for his Grade 3 Ukulele. Quite an accomplishment at such a young age 👏👏👏

Congratulations to Brandon who recently achieved a fantastic Merit for his Grade 5 Piano exam! 🏆🌟👏 #ambition

Well done to our primary and secondary performers who took part in last week's summer concert! Although we didn’t get many photos, here are a few that reflect the energy and talent on display. There was a fantastic variety of entertainment and everyone performed brilliantly. We couldn't be prouder!

Congratulations to Grace who recently achieved an amazing Distinction🏅for her Grade 1 piano exam. 🎶👏👏

2.12 have been loving the Beatles unit so far in Music and have enjoyed coming together as a class over the last few weeks to perform Eight Days A Week! 🎶🎹🥁🎸 @duncanrigsecondary.org

It was great to hear premieres of works from our Young Composers and showcase the talents of our Music Technology pupils at Mad Fest 2025 yesterday. Congratulations to class winners Heather and Callum. You can hear all prize winners at our Summer concert this Wednesday, 18th June at 7pm.

The final event of MAD Fest 2025 took place yesterday at Westwood Parish Church. What a lovely morning of music making with fantastic performances from our junior and senior classical and contemporary musicians. Congratulations to our class winners Layla, Sarah, Reece and Allan. 🥁🎤🎶

Well done to all performers who took part in our Musical Theatre showcase on Wednesday night. Amazing singing, dancing and acting from you all. You make us very proud. 😊 Congratulations also to our MAD Fest 2025 Junior Musical Theatre winner Madison Forbes and runner up, Chloe Colreavey. 👏🎭🎶

Our concert band are working hard and sounding great at the start of their 2 day band camp. Many thanks to Universal Connections for the use of your amazing space. Lots of fun planned for the rest of today and tomorrow. Can’t wait!! 🎶🥁🎷⁦

Last night our talented NPA class wowed us with fantastic monologues, emotional musical theatre songs and a show stopping final dance number. Our first MAD fest prizes were awarded to Allan Steel (senior monologues) and Mirrin Carmichael (senior musical theatre). Well done to everyone involved. 🎭🎶

We are immensely proud of these Duncanrig pupils who performed brilliantly at tonight’s Anyone Can Sing concert at the Village Theatre. Wonderful ambassadors for our school. Well done guys 👏🎶🎻🎤

Six of our talented young musicians will be representing Duncanrig at the Anyone Can Sing concert at the Village Theatre, East Kilbride on Sunday 18th May. If you’re in the area, pop along to show them your support. 🎶🎤🎻🎼

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