Knightswood Secondary School

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Knightswood Secondary School is a secondary school located in Knightswood in the west-end of Glasgow, Scotland.The school is one of the city's largest secondaries with a roll of approximately 1500 pupils. Knightswood is co-educational, non-selective and non-denominational, and provides education for pupils of varying backgrounds. Knightswood also contains The Dance School Of Scotland.ManagementAs well as a headteacher and deputy headteacher, each school year has an assistant head teacher, who is able to have a more personal contact with students. The offices of the headteacher, deputy head and assistant heads are all held in one corridor.Guidance (known as pastoral care) teachers are assigned by registration classes. There are typically twelve guidance counselors in one school year.Classes and timingsClasses normally consist of 7 periods lasting 50 minutes on Monday only and 6 periods also lasting 50 minutes on Tuesdays to Fridays, with a 20-minute student tutor time. Classes on Monday finish at 4pm and 3.10pm on Tuesdays to Fridays. Lunch lasts from 12.50pm to 1.30pm, also a morning interval after tutor time from 10.55 to 11.10am.Most subjects have classes in the size of twenty to thirty pupils. Classes will be named by year and a set number (i.e. 1R3, 3R4, 2R12) The order of classes does not bear any relation to the skill of the pupils in those groups. In fifth and six year, due to subject choices, classes change with every period, and naming them is not necessary.Layout and structureKnightswood was the first school designed by the modernist architects Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. Designed in 1938, it was not built until the 1950s, being opened on 10 October 1958 by John Maclay, Secretary of State for Scotland. It is now protected as a category B listed building. Knightswood contains four floors, as well as three annexes.