St Benedict's High School is a Roman Catholic High School in Linwood, Renfrewshire, in the west of Scotland.
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St Benedict's High School was formed by the amalgamation of St Cuthbert's High School in Johnstone and St Brendan's High School in Linwood.
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In the end, however, MacIntyre tells us that we are waiting not for Godot but for St Benedict.
They founded St Benedict's College (secondary) and St Benedict's School (primary) near St Benedict's Church, Newton in 1886, and in 1898 a large new school was built on the opposite corner from the church.
The oldest, St Saviour's RC High School, closed in June 2008 due to decreasing pupil numbers and merged with Lawside Academy at the start of the 2008/9 school year to form St. Paul's Academy.
Initially Fuller's parents, the physician and medical author Arthur William Fuller and Florence Margaret Fuller (née Montgomery), of St John's Wood, London, sent their son to Ealing Priory School (the subsequently renamed St Benedict's School) where he happened to share classes and hone his Latin skills in contest with the 20 months younger, the later New Testament scholar and his colleague on a number of major scholarly projects, John Bernard Orchard.
In 1964, Robert Francis Mone was expelled from St John's RC High School.
Saint Benedict's College was opened in 1955 under the name 'Blessed John Almond' in recognition of local martyr John Almond who was an Allerton resident.
At that time, Roman Catholic Secondary Education was provided by the Sisters at Lawside Academy for both boys and girls.
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The school had 8 houses named after abbeys in Scotland: Balmerino, Melrose, Jedburgh, Lindores, Paisley, Kelso, Iona and Dunkeld.
It remained a popular and thriving school for many years, producing such success stories as pop Band Danny Wilson 80s top ten hit Mary's Prayer fame, chess Grand Master Paul Motwani, Commonwealth Games Gold medallist Liz McColgan and entrepreneur Christiaan van der Kuyl, all of whom who remained closely associated with the school until its closure.
The school was established in 2009 as a merger between Lawside Academy and St. Saviours High School.