Uniforms
We ask all parents/carers to support the school by encouraging your child(ren) to adhere to the agreed dress code and the wearing of our school uniform. The wearing of a school uniform helps promote the identity of the school in the local community and helps create an ethos of sharing and pride in the school.
In addition, the wearing of a uniform helps towards increasing the protection of all pupils. The wearing of a uniform helps staff and the pupils to distinguish between who belongs to the school and those who may be visitors. This enables staff to approach and identify visitors more readily and helps in trying to offer a safer environment for pupils and teachers alike.
Equality of opportunity is an important aspect of the life of the school. Any proposals on the dress code and on what constitutes the school uniform will be the subject of discussion with the Parent Council and where appropriate consultation with parents, pupils and staff.
There are forms of dress which are unacceptable in all schools such as:
- The wearing of football colours
- Clothing with slogans that may cause offence (anti-religious, symbolism or political slogans)
- Clothing which advertises alcohol, tobacco or drugs
- Clothing which can be deemed unsuitable in terms of health and safety grounds such as shell suits, combat style clothing, dangling earrings, loose fitting clothes particularly in practical classes
- Articles of clothing that could be deemed to inflict damage on other pupils or be used by others to do so
- Footwear that may damage flooring.
The uniform for all Rutherglen High pupils is:
- White shirt with school tie
- White school polo shirt
- School sweatshirt
- Black jumper / cardigan
- Black trousers / skirt
We no longer hold school uniforms in school to buy. We have competitively sourced two suppliers that would be able to supply you with school ties and uniform with the school logo.
Please note that the school no longer deals with prices or product changes as it is the responsibility of the companies below but they have been very supportive in price matching where they can (depending on suppliers).
Scotcrest
These uniforms will be made to order and can be collected in the Hamilton shop or couriered to the home address. The pupils can try on standard blazers in store to get their size.
Scotcrest Uniforms Hamilton
41 Quarry Street,
Hamilton,
ML3 7AH
Year Planner
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Parentsportal.scot is a new digital service to help replace the traditional 'school bag run' by providing direct communication to parents and carers through a growing suite or online services. Through parentsportal.scot parents and carers will be able to grant permissions for school trips, view lunch menus, view attendance, complete annual data check, book parents evening and link directly to ParentPay to make payment for school meal, to name but a few.
We would ask that you link your S1 child to their secondary school in parentsportal.scot in August when your child is registered at Rutherglen High. If you have previously linked to your child's primary school, then this link is now broken and you need to log onto parentsportal.scot and 'add child' selecting your child's secondary school.
If you are a new parent to South Lanarkshire Council, or previously didn't link to your child's primary school we would ask you to do this for their time in secondary school. To access parentsportal.scot go to https://parentsportal.scot/pportal// . If you have a mygovscot account click the link to Sign In or if you don't have a mygovscot account clock the link to register for a mygovscot account.
Once registered you will be prompted to Link Your Child. To be able to link your child you will be asked to provide details relating to your child, the school they attend and your relationship with them. Once the details are found and matched you will be sent a security code to either your mobile number or email address registered to the school. The security code is to provide additional security before your child's record is linked. Your request to link your child will then be sent to your child's school for approval. You will then be notified of the decision to approve the link on your email.
Once your child/children are linked to their school you will start to receive communications from the school via parentsportal.scot and over time will become your one-stop-shop to everything to do with your child and their school.
Subjects At Rutherglen High School
School Hours 
| Monday | 8.50am | 3.45pm |
| Tuesday | 8.50am | 3.45pm |
| Wednesday | 8.50am | 2.55pm |
| Thursday | 8.50am | 2.55pm |
| Friday | 8.50am | 2.55pm |