Glasgow Academy
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| Motto | Serva Fidem (Keep The Faith) |
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| Established | 1845 |
| Type | Independent school |
| Rector | Peter Brodie |
| Location | Colebrooke Street Glasgow G12 8HE Scotland |
| Students | 1300 approx |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 3–18 |
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| Charity Number | SCO 15638 |
| Founder | Members of Free Church of Scotland |
| Campuses | Kelvinbridge, Milngavie & Newlands |
| Website | Glasgow Academy |
Founded in 1845, the Glasgow Academy is the oldest fully independent school[1] in Glasgow, Scotland. It is located in the Kelvinbridge area and has approximately 1300 pupils, split between three preparatory school sites and a senior school. The current rector is Peter Brodie, who has held the position since 2005.
HMIe last inspected the school in November 2008.[2]
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[edit] New Preparatory School
The school has just built a completely new Prep School, located on the riverside with panoramic views over the River Kelvin. State-of-the-art whiteboards and wireless access throughout the building can be found, along with classrooms with bright natural light, 'break-out areas' outside the classrooms, a spacious hall, library, conference room and roof terrace.[3] The former Prep School building has been refurbished in order to improve the facilities of the Senior School, provide a superior environment for pupils at the top of the Prep School who have their own dedicated area in it and create a dedicated area for all year round nursery and after school care.
[edit] House system
The school has a well established house system, which divides all pupils in the school into four different Houses, each represented by a School Colour:
- Arthur
- Fraser
- Morrison
- Temple
House assemblies are regularly held and pupils enter a wide range of activities competing in Houses. Activities include football, volleyball, debating and an annual House singing competition.
[edit] Sports
The school offers many sporting opportunities to its pupils, including those more common:
- rugby union (boys in winter)
- field hockey (girls and senior boys in winter)
- tennis (senior boys and girls in summer)
- athletics (boys and girls in summer) and
- cricket (boys and senior girls in summer).
The School also offers the more unusual:
[edit] Drama, Music, CCF and Outdoor Education
At present, there are almost 500 pupils receiving instrumental lessons and the Music Department provides a range of opportunities for pupils to perform in ensembles and choirs, compose original music and study musical theory. There is a bi-annual music tour, the most recent of which was to New York. Music is housed in its own building and its facilities include a 60-seater performance room equipped with a Yamaha concert grand piano, two classrooms, many practice rooms and a recording studio. The school also has its own pipe band, composed of pupils of the school.
A new Drama Department was created in August 2009 with the appointment of a Director of Drama, Mr Neil J Millar. The department is currently providing a full range of Drama courses, including, Senior 1 and Senior 2 Drama, Standard Grade, Higher and Advanced Higher. There are major plans for a new purpose-built Performance Centre, incorporating a new state-of-the-art Drama Studio and other Drama facilities. There are regular plays, musicals and concerts, and pupils have the opportunity to produce their own shows, as well as taking part in the new annual Drama competition.
The school also has a Combined Cadet Force (CCF), comprising Army, Navy and RAF sections.[5]
In the Outdoor Education programme, pupils progress from experiences at residential centres, participation in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award expeditions, whitewater kayaking and winter mountaineering, where they become more autonomous, to travelling to unexplored areas of East Greenland where they make self-led ascents of unclimbed peaks.
[edit] Academy Tartan
In 1996 a school tartan was designed by Alison I. Bruce.[6] The tartan is a combination of the main school colours, navy blue and heather (purple), with the addition of black for some depth.
The Glasgow Academy Tartan is worn as a skirt by all Secondary School girls and can be worn as a winter pinafore by Preparatory School girls in Preparatory 6 and Transitius.
The Glasgow Academy Tartan is registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority as an Educational Tartan, STA No. 2052.[6]
[edit] Notable alumni
- Frederick Anderson, Chairman, Municipal Council, Shanghai International Settlement, 1905-06.
- John Arthur, Church of Scotland missionary to East Africa.
- J. M. Barrie, writer of 'Peter Pan'
- Laura Bartlett, British Hockey Player and Olympic Athlete [7][8][9]
- John Beattie (rugby player), rugby player for Scotland and British Lions
- Sir James Caird (1864–1954), founder of the National Maritime Museum.
- Miller Caldwell, Author, UNESCO Camp Manager at Mundihar in Pakistan [10]
- Billy Campbell, winner of the 2009 Scottish BAFTA Best Fictional Film award for 'Life of a Pigeon'.[11]
- Sir John Cargill, Chairman of Burmah Oil Company, 1904–1943
- Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Conservative Party MSP.
- Andrew Colin (financial analyst), Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and at Southern Cross University in New South Wales
- Archibald Corbett, 1st Baron Rowallan, politician and philanthropist.
- Douglas Crawford, Scottish National Party MP
- Darius Campbell (born Danesh), singer-songwriter & actor
- Donald Dewar, Scottish Labour Party MP and MSP, first First Minister of Scotland
- Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP, Secretary of State for Scotland
- Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard University
- George Macdonald Fraser, Author [12]
- John Gardner (law), Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
- Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, Scottish Unionist Party MP
- Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig, KBE, CVO British naval surgeon, and intimate of King George VI (1880–1953)
- Sir Angus Grossart, Chairman and executive director of merchant bank Noble Grossart [13]
- Rev. Dr Andrew Harper, Scottish–Australian Biblical scholar and Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne and St Andrew's College, Sydney (also attended Scotch College, Melbourne)[14]
- Michael Hirst, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MP and Chairman
- Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I. (1840–1900)
- Sir Jeremy Isaacs Founder of Channel 4
- Nicholas P. Jewell, Vice Provost & Professor of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
- William Paton Ker, literary critic
- John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat and crossbench life peer
- Colin Kidd, Professor of Modern History at University of Glasgow
- Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, philosopher
- Maurice Lindsay CBE Scottish broadcaster, writer and poet (1918–2009).
- Sir James Lithgow, shipbuilder and industrialist; 1883–1952
- Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum[15]
- Alan Mackin, Professional tennis player (Ranked 262 in World)[16]
- Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart, leader of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats
- George Matheson theologian and preacher (1842–1906).
- W. H. Murray, mountaineer, explorer and writer
- David Omand Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, former senior British civil servant, visiting professor at King's College London
- Alexander Pollock, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MP, sheriff
- William Ramsay, discovered the gas 'Argon'
- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, founder of the BBC
- James Prime, keyboard player for Deacon Blue,lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland
- Albert Russell, Scottish Unionist Party MP, Solicitor General for Scotland
- David Scott Iain Belch, Notable researcher in the field of medicine, Cancer Research
- William Sharp, poet and literary biographer
- Ninian Smart, scholar of religion
- Norman Stone, historian
- Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel, ex Chief Executive of BT, Liberal Democrat politician
- Herbert Waddell Scottish rugby internationalist and president of the Barbarians(1902–1988)
- Sir James Wordie, polar explorer and geologist
[edit] Notable alumni of Westbourne School for Girls
- Vivien Heilbron, actress
- Fiona Kennedy, singer, actress and broadcaster
- Louise White - broadcast journalist and presenter, best known as a newsreader for STV News at Six.
[edit] Bibliography
MacLeod, Iain M., The Glasgow Academy 150 Years, (The Glasgow Academicals' War Memorial Trust, 1997)
[edit] References
- ^ "Glasgow Academy | Junior and Senior Mixed Independent School | Scotland". Guide to Independent Schools. http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/165/Glasgow-Academy/HMC-HAS/The-Glasgow-Academy-Colebrooke-Street-Glasgow-G12-8HE. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/home/The%20Glasgow%20Academy%20HMIe%20Report.pdf
- ^ "Prep School - New Building". Theglasgowacademy.org.uk. 2008-04-22. http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/prep/newprep.html. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ "Parents Info - Sports". Theglasgowacademy.org.uk. http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/parental/sports.html. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ "Senior School - Non-Academic". Theglasgowacademy.org.uk. http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/senior/yeargroups/ccf.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ Laura Bartlett. "Laura Bartlett". Great Britain Hockey. http://www.greatbritainhockey.co.uk/athlete.asp?itemid=78&itemTitle=Laura+Bartlett§ion=0001000100020004§ionTitle=Women%27s+Squad. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/4/225274.shtml
- ^ "Parents Info - News". Theglasgowacademy.org.uk. http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/parental/archive/LauraInspration.html. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ Miller Caldwell. "Netherholm Publications - Miller Caldwell - Home Page". Miller Caldwell. http://www.millercaldwell.org/index.html. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ "BAFTA for Billy Campbell | UCA". Ucreative.ac.uk. http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/article/24143/BAFTA-for-Billy-Campbell. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ "George MacDonald Fraser". Telegraph. 2008-01-03. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/03/db0304.xml. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ DOUGLAS FRASER, Scottish Political Editor (2008-09-11). "Why Grossart's appointment is such a coup - Herald Scotland". Theherald.co.uk. http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/news/display.var.2444552.0.Why_Grossarts_appointment_is_such_a_coup_for_Swinney.php. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ Chambers, Don (1983). "Harper, Andrew (1844 - 1936)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 9 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 200–202. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090198b.htm?hilite=harper. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
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- ^ "Tennis - ATP World Tour - Tennis Players – Alan Mackin". Atptennis.com. 2011-06-20. http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/players/playerprofiles/?playernumber=M820. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
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Coordinates: 55°52′33″N 4°16′46″W / 55.87583°N 4.27944°W
