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'''Ainslie Park High School''' was a state [[secondary school]] in [[East Pilton]], [[Edinburgh]], Scotland.

== History ==
The school was designed by James Stewart Johnston in the mid-1930s, but building work was delayed until after [[World War II]] and construction started in 1949.<ref>((Cite web|title = Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Building/Design Report (December 16, 2015, 12:22 pm)|url = http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=208812|website = www.scottisharchitects.org.uk|accessdate = 16 December 2015))</ref> The school was originally to be called Pilton Intermediate School.<ref>((Cite web|url = http://www.grantonhistory.org/schools/schools_sec_ainslie_park.htm|title = Ainslie Park High School |date = 2010|accessdate = 20 November 2021|website =Granton History  |publisher = |first = David|last = King))</ref> From its opening in 1948 until 1965 it was a junior secondary school, meaning pupils left at the end of their third academic year. If they wished to sit O-grade examinations they had to move on to another school. The 1965/66 academic year saw the school attain senior secondary status, thereby allowing pupils to remain into fourth year to sit O-grade exams. The school subsequently expanded the academic syllabus to offer Higher examinations. The school colours were red and gold and the badge was a golden dolphin on a red background.

The first headmaster was Norman Murchison, who was also a well known commentator on post-war education; in 1968 he delivered the 14th Charles Russell memorial lecture on the subject of 'Some social aspects of modern education'.<ref>((Cite book|title = Some social aspects of modern education: the fourteenth Charles Russell memorial lecture|publisher = Trustees of the Charles Russell Memorial Lectures|date = 1 January 1968|location = London|first = Norman|last = Murchison|oclc = 468171))</ref> He was also involved in numerous other debates, including on the propensity for young Scots to go abroad after the war<ref>((Cite web|title = Scotland's Youth |work=The Scotsman |date=31 October 1949 |url = http://archive.scotsman.com/viewer/bl/0000540/19491031/074/0003|accessdate = 16 December 2015))</ref> and on the delinquency level of children in early 1950.<ref>((Cite web|title = War Victims Delinquent Children Of To-Day |work=The Scotsman |date=29 March 1950 |url = http://archive.scotsman.com/viewer/bl/0000540/19500329/211/0005?browse=false|accessdate = 16 December 2015))</ref> He was made the first Citizen Of The Year for the City of Edinburgh, and a lecture theatre was named in his honour at the [[University of Edinburgh]]'s [[King's Buildings]] campus. He retired in June 1968 and was succeeded by Norman Chalmers.

The opening of [[Craigroyston Community High School]] and the falling birth rate since the late 1960s meant that Ainslie Park was no longer viable as a secondary school, and the building became the North Campus for [[Edinburgh's Telford College]]. The axe finally fell on Ainslie Park in 1991.<ref>((Cite news |title = Schools fail to pass the tests of time|url = https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/schools-fail-to-pass-the-tests-of-time-1-1280582|work=The Scotsman|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914121554/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/schools-fail-to-pass-the-tests-of-time-1-1280582 |date=29 November 2008 |archive-date=14 September 2019 ))</ref>

A full planning application to develop the site was submitted by Miller Homes on 21 March 2007 and was granted by the City of Edinburgh Council. The main building was the original building designed by J.S. Johnston in the 1930s' Art Deco style and was listed under category B. It was to be converted into flats while the rest was to be new build, but Miller Homes successfully appealed under test d: The repair of the building is not economically viable, and the old main building was demolished;<ref>((Cite web|url = http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/2348/13_07_24_-_telford_north_-_pre_meeting_paperspdf|title = North Campus Telford College Redevelopment|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151222145220/http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/2348/13_07_24_-_telford_north_-_pre_meeting_paperspdf|archive-date = 22 December 2015|url-status = dead))</ref> only its façade has been retained.<ref name=50th>((cite news |first=Craig |last=Williams |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-59048640 |title=The worst mountain disaster in British history |publisher=BBC News |date=20 November 2021 |access-date=20 November 2021 ))</ref>

===1971 tragedy===
((main|Cairngorm Plateau disaster))
On 21–22 November 1971 five members of a [[mountaineering]] club at Ainslie Park School and an 18-year-old trainee instructor from [[Newcastle-under-Lyme]] died in a [[blizzard]] while trying to walk from [[Cairn Gorm]] to [[Corrour Bothy]].<ref>[http://www.aircrew-saltire.org/lib128.htm Aircrew Association: Cairngorm Disaster 1971] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190548/http://www.aircrew-saltire.org/lib128.htm |date=3 March 2016 ))</ref> A party of 14 children led by 23-year-old Ben Beattie, who was Ainslie Park's outdoor instructor, and his 21-year-old girlfriend Catherine Davidson, set out for Lagganlia to be met by a local instructor called Sheila Sutherland. The party then split into two with Beattie taking one group and Davidson and Sutherland taking the other. The latter group of six children struggled to reach their destination (the Corrour Bothy) and decided to settle for the night in a snow hole. Only two members of the party survived — instructor Catherine Davidson and pupil Raymond Leslie. The members of the party who died were: Sheila Sunderland the local instructor, Carol Bertram (aged 16), Susan Byrne (15), Lorraine Dick (15), William Kerr (15) and Diane Dudgeon (15).<ref>((Cite web|title=Forty years after Diane Dudgeon died on a frozen hillside, her father reveals the pain of not knowing what really happened |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/forty-years-after-diane-dudgeon-died-on-a-frozen-hillside-her-father-reveals-the-pain-of-not-know-what-really-happened-1-1985733 |work=The Scotsman |accessdate=16 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222113613/http://www.scotsman.com/news/forty-years-after-diane-dudgeon-died-on-a-frozen-hillside-her-father-reveals-the-pain-of-not-know-what-really-happened-1-1985733 |archivedate=22 December 2015 ))</ref> ((As of|2021)) it stands as the UK's worst mountaineering disaster.<ref name=50th/>

Such was the public concern that on 23 November 1971, the day after the Cairngorm Plateau disaster, [[Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy|Gordon Campbell]], the [[Secretary of State for Scotland]] announced in the [[House of Commons]] that the [[Lord Advocate]] had decided to institute a [[public inquiry]] under the [[Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1906]].<ref>((Cite web|title = CAIRNGORMS (CLIMBING ACCIDENT) |work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] |date=23 November 1971|url = https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1971/nov/23/cairngorms-climbing-accident|access-date = 16 December 2015))</ref>

==Notable alumni==
((seealsocat|People educated at Ainslie Park High School))
* [[Ron Brown (Scottish politician)|Ron Brown]] MP<ref>((Cite news|title = Tributes flood in as Red Ron passes away|url = http://www.scotsman.com/news/tributes-flood-in-as-red-ron-passes-away-1-1326726|work=The Scotsman|accessdate = 16 December 2015))</ref>
* [[Frank Doran (UK politician)|Frank Doran]] MP
* [[Irvine Welsh]], writer<ref>((Cite web|title = Irvine Welsh interview |url = https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/irvine-welsh-interview-1-1190236 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914141733/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/irvine-welsh-interview-1-1190236 |archive-date=14 September 2019 |work=The Scotsman|date=26 January 2009 ))</ref>
* [[Bert Jansch]], musician<ref>((Cite web|title = Obituary: Bert Jansch, gifted Edinburgh guitarist who deservedly earned the soubriquet 'Britain's Bob Dylan'|url = http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-bert-jansch-gifted-edinburgh-guitarist-who-deservedly-earned-the-soubriquet-britain-s-bob-dylan-1-1893550|work=The Scotsman|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529065052/https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-bert-jansch-gifted-edinburgh-guitarist-who-deservedly-earned-the-soubriquet-britain-s-bob-dylan-1-1893550 |date=6 October 2011 |archive-date=29 May 2019 ))</ref>
* [[David Rennie (footballer)|David Rennie]], [[association football|footballer]]
* [[Willie Stevenson]], footballer
* [[Graham Fitzpatrick]] [[film director]], [[screenwriter]]

==Notable former teachers==
* [[Terry Christie]], football manager<ref>((Cite web |first=Allan |last=Pattullo |title = Terry Christie on his Meadowbank Thistle memories|url = https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/terry-christie-his-meadowbank-thistle-memories-1504265 |work=The Scotsman |date=23 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201229202558/https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/terry-christie-his-meadowbank-thistle-memories-1504265 |archive-date=29 December 2020 ))</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Defunct secondary schools in Edinburgh]]
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