Queen Anne High School Dunfermline
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Queen Anne High School, named after Queen Anne of Denmark, is a large non-denominational secondary school of around 1,800 - the fifth largest in Scotland. It is located in Dunfermline, West Fife, Scotland
Between the latter part of the nineteenth century and the 1930s, the school was located on a site between what is now bounded by the Kingsgate Shopping Centre, Pilmuir Street and Carnegie Drive. In the 1930s it moved to the former Dunfermline High School building that lay to the north of Priory Lane. In the 1950s it moved again to a new campus at Broomhead, just to the south of its current location. In August 2003 it moved again, but this time only 200 yards to the north.
[edit] School Structure
The school is divided into four houses (previously six), Abbey, Bruce, Carnegie and Denmark (Erskine and Fordell houses were merged into the four current houses at the start of 2007) each house with a guidance team of two teachers. Prior to 2004 each house had an Assistant Rector assigned to it but this changed when the school became more year group than house orientated and the rectors became Year Heads instead.
Queen Anne has a flat-structured management system with one Rector and five Depute Rectors. Most departments have their own Principal Teacher (PT) however, in line with new Scottish Government guidelines the Curriculum Leader system has been adopted. As well as five PTs for the guidance departments.
With the near complete dissolution of the Houses there is little in terms of pupil structure other than year groups. The only exception to this is the Senior Prefect Team and the larger Prefect group as a whole.
[edit] Role in the community
Queen Anne has an active role in its local community. Queen Anne's modern services are open for use to the public after the school day finishes, these include a gym, sports hall, gymnastics hall, music studio, tennis courts and football pitches.
During the Christmas Season Queen Anne pupils donate food parcels to Sheltered Homes across Dunfermline and surrounding villages[citation needed].
Queen Anne also plays a part in The Gambia with charity and fundraising in Queen Anne which helps fund expansion and improvement to the John Pickering Senior Comprehensive school located in the Gambia. Queen Anne also maintains a social link with the Gambian school as a number of pupils have formed penpals with those in Gambia[citation needed]. Also in 2006 some Queen Anne pupils went to visit the school in the Gambia and reported the project was a success. In 2007 two members of staff from John Pickering visited Queen Anne, there will be a return trip of Queen Anne pupils to the Gambia mid 2008.
