Schools

St. Margaret's Church is associated with the following schools in Dunfermline.

St Margaret's Primary School

St. Margaret’s is a vibrant, hard work working and high achieving Roman Catholic Primary school. We are ambitious for all our children and work collaboratively with our parents and partners in order that our pupils reach their full potential spiritually, emotionally, and academically. St. Margaret’s is built on our school values of Faith, Fairness & Achievement.

Faith

To develop positive relationships among our pupils, staff, parents and parishes to develop our school as a community of faith & learning.
To walk together with our school family throughout their faith journey, inspired by the word of God, and celebrating the Sacraments.

Achievement

To create the highest quality, learning & teaching environment, where both staff and children set high expectations for themselves to become successful learners
To provide a broad curriculum that develops skills for learning, life & work and is underpinned by assessment and moderation.

Fairness

To promote respect, excellence and equity for all, ensuring every pupil is included and encouraged to achieve their full potential.
To keep our pupils safe, well looked after, healthy and active whilst encouraging an environmentally sustainable lifestyle.

We encourage all our children to put our school mission into practice, that is, “To Live the Gospel, While Learning for Life!”

Click here to visit the website of St. Margaret's RC Primary School.

Holy Name Primary School

Holy Name RCPS serves the local community of Oakley, Carnock, Comrie and Blairhall. The school shares a campus with Inzievar PS. We enjoy the benefits of access to the facilities on campus, such as the community library and outdoor classroom/woods. We share close ties and values with our parish community and fellow St Columba’s Cluster schools.

Our school values of ‘Love, Respect and Hard Work’ and our Catholic ethos permeates our school life and interactions. We aim to grow and learn in an inclusive and safe place where love and respect are found in the family, the church and the school enabling us to live out our shared vision:

‘Together we all discover, learn, grow and succeed’

Click here to visit the website of Holy Name RC Primary School.

St Columba's High School

The original St Columba’s RC High School was opened in 1922 in Cowdenbeath as a combined Catholic senior secondary for all Fife pupils and a junior secondary for pupils from the immediate Cowdenbeath area. In 1959, the new St Andrew’s High School in Kirkcaldy took on the role of the Catholic senior secondary and St Columba’s became a junior high school with a catchment area covering Dunfermline and West Fife.

The present school buildings were constructed in 1969, at which point the old junior high school in Cowdenbeath was closed. In 1973 St Columba’s then developed into a six year Catholic co-educational comprehensive school in line with local authority policy.

THE SCHOOL LATIN MOTTO IS "TENUI NEC DIMITTAM" WHICH MEANS “I WILL HOLD ON AND NOT LET GO”.

St. Columba's RC HS is one of the 18 High Schools in Fife, and one of the 11 RC High Schools in the Archdiocese of St. Andrew's & Edinburgh. The school's newly re-designed school badge places the image of a Dove centrally as 'Columba' (or 'Colm Cille' in Irish) means 'Dove of the Church'. The badge also incorporates the three tenets of 'Faith, Fairness, & Achievement' but in Latin 'Fides, Aequitas & Adeptio' (as the pupils believed this was 'posher'). 'Faith' (Fides) is front and centre as we are a Faith School, but the word also spells out our new Values of : Forgiveness; Aspiration; Inclusion; Tolerance; & Honesty.

Click here to visit the website of St. Columba's High School.