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| Affiliation | Labour |
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| Name | Lindsay Roy |
| Address |
Fife, Scotland , United Kingdom |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
Unknown
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Modifed | New Jerusalem
Nov 06, 2008 06:28pm |
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| Info | Lindsay, 59, lives in Glenrothes and is proud to have been a Fife teacher for almost 40 years.
He lived through the damage the Tories did to Fife – and was proud of the job Labour did after 1997 to rebuild it. He worked hard to rebuild his own school when Labour made available the funds to do so.
Lindsay says: “I joined and support the Labour Party because I believe in social justice, equality of opportunity, fairness.”
He now wants to put those values, those grassroots Fife values, back at the heart of Labour politics. A Fifer fighting for Fifers.
He is currently Rector at Kirkcaldy High School, appointed six months ago by the SNP-run council to turn the school around.
He was appointed because Lindsay is known across Fife as a man who gets things done.
The SNP education convenor on Fife Council praised Lindsay Roy’s appointment and expressed fulsome confidence in his leadership skills. Already discipline is better, national test results have dramatically improved, and pupils have a new pride in their school.
In fact, Kirkcaldy High School is the first school he ever taught in before stints in Queen Anne High and Glenwood High, where he was the Depute Rector.
In 1990 he was appointed Rector at Inverkeithing High, where he remained for
18 years. School inspectors described his leadership in 2007 as “exceptionally strong and dynamic”. He was praised for building strong links with the local community, and his drive to improve standards was considered “exemplary”.
Lindsay represents Scotland on the International Confederation of Principals, and also brings his expertise to other schools as an inspector.
But outside schools, Lindsay is well-regarded too. He has been a member of Carnegie College (Lauder) Board of Management for the best part of a decade, supporting people of all ages getting new skills and qualifications.
He has been a Church Elder for over 35 years, currently at St Columba’s Church in Glenrothes, and a member of the Rotary Club since 1991.
Lindsay is a keen mountain biker and footballer, and plays 5-aside every week. He used to play with Burntisland Shipyard as a midfielder (appearing in a Scottish Cup tie) and as a boy trained with the St Johnstone reserves.
He comes from a quite ordinary background: his father was a railway signalman and his mother was a school cleaner.
He has been married for to Irene for 36 years. They have three children: Allan, an engineer, who lives locally with three children of his own, Jacqueline who now works in London, and Kevin who works in an orphanage in Guatemala helping disabled children.
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