Lomond is a co-educationl independent school of 460 pupils set in a wonderful location, twenty five miles from Glasgow, Europe's city of Culture 1990, yet within ten minutes drive of Loch Lomond.
The school achieves excellent academic results partly due to the excellent staff pupil ratio and the deliberate policy to restrict class sizes to a maximum of 20 pupils. Considerable time and energy is devoted to ensuring that pupils work to their full potential and a very high quality staff work hard to ensure that this is the case not only academically but also in terms of self-confidence and character building. To that end there is an impressive programme of extra-curricular involvement in sport, drama, music, art and outdoor pursuits. Many extra-curricular activities occur every week and pupils are expected to participate in them. All pupils take part in the Duke of Edinburgh scheme . The parents' Handbook states that, 'The School's job certainly does not stop in the classroom or in the teaching of our subjects alone. We are educating children for life. They must feel that they are valued as individuals and that they can approach the world with the self-confidence bred of encouragement and success in whatever fields are their forte. If we have not found that forte then we have probably not tried hard enough. To achieve these aims is a full-time job on the part of every adult, parent or teacher, connected with this community and the importance of the task is such that the future of this country depends on how well it is done. No more important responsibility exists anywhere.'
This is a caring, happy, positive school in which the accent is firmly on fulfillment and involvement.
A new main building will be built for August 1998.
Alumni - Amongst distinguished alumni are John Logie Baird, inventor of television, Bonar Law (Prime Minister) and Gwnyth Guthrie (actress). The poet W H Auden was on the staff.
