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'{{Refimprove|date=December 2008}} {{Infobox UK school | name = The High School of Dundee | image = High_School_of_Dundee_Arms.jpg | size = 200px | latitude = 56.4628 | longitude = -2.9730 | dms = | motto = ''Prestante Domino''<br />"Under the leadership of God" | motto_pl = | established = 1239 | approx = | closed = | c_approx = | type = [[Independent school|Independent]] primary and secondary | religion = | president = | head_label = [[Rector (education)|Rector]] | head = Dr. John D. Halliday BA PhD ([[University of Cambridge|Cantab]]) | r_head_label = | r_head = | chair_label = Chairman of Directors | chair = Adrian A.M. Stewart | chaplain = | founder = The Abbot and Monks of [[Lindores Abbey]] | founder_pl = | specialist = | street = Euclid Crescent | city =[[Dundee]] | county = | country = [[United Kingdom]] | postcode = DD1 1HU | affiliation = [[HMC]] | ofsted = | staff = 106 teaching/53 non-teaching | enrollment = 1,040 (Approx) | gender = Co-educational | lower_age = 4 1/2 | upper_age = 18 | houses = Airlie {{color box|#800020}} <br> Aystree {{color box|#00008B}} <br> Lindores {{color box|#CFB53B}} <br> Wallace {{color box|#FFFFFF}} | colours = Navy and gold {{color box|#000080}} {{color box|#FFD700}} | publication = | free_label_1 = School song | free_1 = [http://highschoolofdundee.co.uk/about/history/schola_clara ''Floreat Schola Taodunensis''] | free_label_2 = | free_2 = | free_label_3 = | free_3 = | website = http://www.highschoolofdundee.co.uk | website_name = }} The '''High School of Dundee''' is an [[independent school|independent]], [[co-educational]], [[day school]] in the city of [[Dundee]], [[Scotland]] which provides both [[primary school|primary]] and [[secondary school|secondary education]] to just over one thousand pupils. Its foundation has been dated to 1239, and is the sole private school in Dundee. The school's [[Rector]] is a member of the [[Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference]]. ==History== ===The Grammar School=== The School is full of gays. The only good thing is that all the fat bastards get to go to mcDs in the town. The school regualrly have assemblies where pupils are invited onto stage to pick a member of the school to shag up the arse -boys are most popular.The school has now been changed as sex machines Whitey and Kazium came to school and the girls pussiez were so wet that the boys were swimming out the door. The ladz nobs are so big because all the girls have sucked and fucked them so much. You would love this school if you are a girl but hate it if u were a boy as you would more than likely get Aids. Little information survives about the early grammar school: it would have taught a [[Latin]] curriculum to boys from Dundee and the surrounding area. However, in 1434, the teaching methods of the Master, Gilbert Knight, were challenged by John, Bishop of Brechin, who conferred Laurence Lownan as the new Master in Knight's place. Dundee was a hotbed of the [[Scottish Reformation|Reformation]], and [[Dundee Parish Church (St Mary's)|St Mary's Church]] had, according to [[John Knox]], the first truly reformed congregation in Scotland. The School itself was the earliest reformed school in the country, having adopted the new religion in 1554 under the master, Thomas Makgibbon, with the assistance of the (by-now Protestant) Dundee Town Council. However, [[Abbot of Lindores|John, the Abbot of Lindores]] stepped in to take control of the school which his predecessors had founded, replacing Makgibbon nominally with the Vicar of St. Mary’s, John Rolland, who was given the power to appoint substitutes; this he did, his substitutes opening schools in opposition to the Grammar School, poaching its pupils. In the ensuing furore the Town Council, which approved of Makgibbon’s methods, intervened to prevent rival schools. Among other early masters was John Fethy, who left Scotland for [[Wittenberg]] from Dundee, having come into contact with Lutheran influences. He returned to Scotland around 1532 “the first organist that ever brought to Scotland the curious new fingering”, that is, playing the [[organ (music)|organ]] with five fingers. Early scholars included [[Hector Boece]], [[historian]] and first [[Principal (school)|Principal]] of the [[University of Aberdeen]]; [[William Wallace]]; and [[James, John and Robert Wedderburn]], authors of ''[[The Gude and Godlie Ballatis]]'', one of the most important literary works of the Scottish Reformation. After the Reformation, the Grammar School came under the auspices of Dundee Town Council. [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] was added to the curriculum shortly after 1562, under the Master Alexander Hepburn, who would author ''Grammaticae Artis Rudimenta Breviter et Dilucide Explicata'', a Latin primer, in Dundee, and go on to teach the [[James Crichton]], known as "The Admirable Crichton", at [[Dunkeld]]. [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary, Queen of Scots]] also made an annual grant to the school in 1563, from the revenues of the church. The school moved into its first permanent home in 1589, a building in St Clement’s Lane demolished to make way for the City Square in the 1930s. One of the first masters here was [[David Lindsay (d. 1641)|David Lindsay]], later [[Bishop of Edinburgh]], who crowned [[Charles I of Scotland|Charles I]] at [[Holyrood Palace|Holyrood]]. Pupils were still expected to speak only Latin - to ensure which, their schoolmates were to act as "clandestine captors". Boys entered at the age of eight, and stayed for seven years (two years longer than in other Scottish schools: in 1773, this was reduced to the customary five) at which point the boy could proceed to [[university]]. A boy had probably only two teachers in all this time: each of the three assistants, known as doctors, taught one class for three years, after which the Rector would teach for two years. ===The English School and Dundee Academy=== The '''English School''' was founded by the burgh council in 1702, and was the successor to the pre-Reformation “Song School”: it acted as a sort of elementary school for both sexes. It stood in School Wynd, by the city churches, near to the present site of the [[Mercat Cross]]. The Grammar School shared a building with it from 1789, though the two remained separate. In 1785, '''Dundee Academy''' was opened in the Nethergate, in a hospital building built by the Trinitarian Friars before the Reformation; today it is the site of St Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral. This new school, also founded by the Council, was “to instruct young gentlemen in mathematical learning, and the several branches of the science with which it is connected.” Its first rector, James Weir, described as “a gentleman of considerable abilities, but rather a projector,” took great interest in the problem of perpetual motion. The school closed down altogether in 1795 after its second master, [[James Ivory (mathematician)|James Ivory]], had gone to be a professor at the [[Royal Military College]]. The academy re-opened in 1801, under Thomas Duncan, a brilliant mathematician: but after his appointment to the [[Regius Chair of Mathematics]] at the [[University of St Andrews]] in 1820 the school suffered. The author [[Robert Mudie]] also taught at the Academy from 1808 to 1821. ===Dundee Public Seminaries=== For some years it had become apparent that the educational needs of the rapidly expanding burgh were inadequately met by the three burgh schools. In April 1829, a public meeting was held to consider the situation, where it was proposed to combine the schools within one building. Dundee Town Council had also been reviewing the position: following deliberations, it was decided that “the Magistrates and Town Council and all classes of the community shall unite in joint efforts for enlarging and improving the means of education in Dundee”. The schools hitherto under the patronage of the Council were to be reconstituted and handed over to a new body of directors, of whom ten were chosen by the Council, and ten by the subscribers to the new buildings. Thus, the three schools were united in 1829 to form the '''Dundee Public Seminaries''', and in 1832-4 the present school, to the design of Edinburgh architect [[George Angus]], was built, a [[neo-classical building]] designed as part of the civic improvements in Dundee. The school was opened on the 1 October 1834. The total cost of the building, including the playground and enclosure (not completed until 1837) was £10,000, the greater portion of which was raised by public subscription. Though it had one building and one management, the three schools remained more or less distinct; conflicting claims for precedence led to no rector being appointed. The centre was assigned to the Academy, the west wing to the Grammar School, and the east wing to the English School; the eight or nine headmasters acted independently, but presided in rotation over a Censor’s Court, which dealt with matters of common concern. To this day, the heads of individual departments within the School are known as Headmasters, a unique reminder of this arrangement. From 1840, one of the directors was to exercise general supervision over the school as governor, or superintending director, with powers to “reform all abuses and irregularities”. ===The High School of Dundee=== In 1859, a [[Royal Charter]] granted by [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] changed the name of the school to '''The High School of Dundee''', and protected the rights of the Subscribers. In 1877, a new curriculum was introduced, and an inclusive fee charged: prior to this, pupils had attended such classes as they chose. The independent future of the school was threatened by the [[Education (Scotland) Act 1872]], which made education compulsory and took over the running of parish schools from the [[Church of Scotland]]. Burgh as well as parish schools now came under school boards run by local committees, and similarly ancient schools in [[Royal High School of Edinburgh|Edinburgh]] and [[High School of Glasgow|Glasgow]] were taken over by their respective town councils. The Subscribers to the High School objected to this. The situation was worsened by a similar Act in 1878, and legal action looked inevitable, until an alumnus, William Harris, offered, in February 1881, to donate £30,000 for the purposes of higher education in Dundee on condition that the board give up all claim to the school. This agreement was incorporated in an [[Act of Parliament]], the [[William Harris Endowment and Dundee Education Act, 1882]]. This act led to the appointment of a single rector of the High School of Dundee, and the foundation of [[Harris Academy]]. Thanks to Miss Margaret Harris, who waived her right to a life-rent of her brother’s estate, a girls’ school was built across Euclid Crescent in two stages between 1886 and 1890. A further Act was passed in 1922, and the school's current constitution is embodied in ‘The High School of Dundee Scheme, 1987’, sanctioned by an Order of the [[Court of Session]] made under the [[Education (Scotland) Act 1980]], in May 1992. The school church is [[Dundee Parish Church (St Mary's)]], continuing a tradition that has existed since its foundation in the thirteenth century, and services and concerts are regularly held in the church. The school has a total of 1040 pupils in prep-school and senior school. Fees for the 2009/2010 session range from £6672 to £9486 [[GBP]]<ref>http://highschoolofdundee.co.uk/fees</ref>. The High School of Dundee was among the first Scottish charities investigated by the [[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator]] for the public benefit derived from their tax-exempt status, and was the first independent school in the United Kingdom judged to have demonstrated its charitable aims and “local and national benefit”. The High School was voted Scottish Independent Secondary School of the Year 2008 by [[The Times]]. <ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/parentpower/schools_of_the_year.php?p=scottish_independent_secondary Scottish Independent Secondary School of the Year]</ref> ==Buildings and Playing Grounds== [[Image:Dundee High School.jpg|thumb|left|400px|The Boys School of 1834]]The High School of Dundee is situated in seven buildings in the city centre: the Main Building (traditionally the Boys School); the Margaret Harris Building (the Girls School); the Robert Fergusson Building, housing the [[English language|English]] department; Trinity Meadowside, a former church, designed by [[David Bryce]], housing the hall, library and recording studio; Bonar House; Baxter House; and The Lodge. There are also two main playing grounds, [[Dalnacraig]] and [[Mayfield (playing ground)|Mayfield]], approximately one mile from the School, at which sports such as [[hockey]], [[tennis]], [[Rugby Union|rugby]], [[football (soccer)|football]], [[cricket]] and [[Athletics (track and field)|athletics]] are played. Mayfield has undergone massive investment in recent years with new sports facilities, and is the home of [[Dundee HSFP|Dundee High School Former Pupils’ RFC]]: it is also let out to other groups. The school also holds an annual sports day at the Mayfield playing grounds in June where the four school [[House (school)|houses]] compete against each other throughout the day. ==Houses== The school has four [[House (school)|houses]] to which pupils are assigned randomly, or depending on their family history in the school. The four houses are [[Earl of Airlie|Airlie]], Aystree (after the house of a Benefactor of the School), [[Lindores Abbey|Lindores]] (originally "School"), and Wallace (after [[William Wallace]]). Junior School get the opportunity to gain house points during class and the senior school gain house-points through competitions such as inter-house [[debating]], and through the results collected from sports day. At the end of every session, the points are added together, and the house plate is awarded to the winning house. ==Notable alumni== {{Unreferenced section|date=April 2009}} * [[William Wallace]], (c.1270-1305), [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[patriotism|patriot]] * [[Hector Boece]], (c.1465–1536), [[Historian]], first [[Principal (university)|Principal]] of the [[University of Aberdeen]], (1500-1536) * [[William Hay]] c.1465-1542, Principal of the University of Aberdeen, (1536-1542) * [[James, John and Robert Wedderburn]], James (c. 1495–1533), John (c. 1505–1556) and Robert Wedderburn (c. 1510–c.1555) religious [[reformers]] * [[Henry Scrimgeour]] (Scrymgeour), (1505?–1572), [[diplomat]] and book collector, Professor of Philosophy and Civil Law in the [[University of Geneva]]. * Sir [[Peter Young (diplomat)|Peter Young]], (1544–1628), tutor to [[James VI]] and diplomat * [[Hercules Rollock]], (c.1546–1599), [[lawyer]] and [[poet]], rector of the [[Royal High School of Edinburgh]] * [[George Gledstanes]] (Gladstanes), (c.1562–1615), [[archbishop of St Andrews]] * [[George Mackenzie (lawyer)|Sir George Mackenzie]] of Rosehaugh (1636–1691), [[Lord Advocate]], writer, founder of the Advocates’ Library, the precursor to the [[National Library of Scotland]] * Rev [[Robert Kirk (minister)|Robert Kirk]], (1644-1692), minister of [[Aberfoyle, Scotland|Aberfoyle]], translator of the [[Psalms]] into [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]], alleged to have been abducted by [[fairy|fairies]] * [[Adam Duncan]], 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, (1731-1804) [[Admiral]] of the [[Royal Navy]] * [[George Dempster (lawyer)|George Dempster]], (1732–1818), lawyer and [[politician]] * [[William Small]], (1734-1775), Professor at the [[College of William and Mary]], physician * [[Robert Fergusson]], (1750–1774), poet * [[Robert Haldane]] (1764–1842), theological writer and evangelical patron * [[James Ivory (judge)|James Ivory]], Lord Ivory (1792–1866), judge * [[James Ivory (mathematician)|Sir James Ivory]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (1765–1842) * [[James Haldane]] (1768–1851), Baptist minister and author * Sir [[Hugh Lyon Playfair]], (1786–1861), army officer and [[Provost (education)|Provost]] of [[St Andrews]] * Lt-Gen. Sir [[William Chalmers]] of Glenericht, (1767-1860) army officer * [[Henry Stephens]], (1795–1874), writer on agriculture * [[Thomas James Henderson]], (1798–1844), astronomer * [[Alexander Leighton]], (1800–1874), writer and literary editor * [[John Gibson Macvicar]], (1800–1884), Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Natural History at the University of St Andrews * [[William Paterson]], (1810-1870), potato breeder * [[Robert Leighton]], (1822–1869), poet * [[Alexander Balfour]], (1824–1886), merchant * Sir [[William Aitken (pathologist)|William Aitken]], (1825–1892), pathologist * [[William Edward Baxter]], (1825–1890), politician and author * Sir [[Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet|Andrew Clark]], first baronet (1826–1893), physician * [[Bruce James Talbert]], (1838–1881), architect and designer * [[Robert Fleming (financier)|Robert Fleming]], (1845–1933), financier * [[Francis Robert Japp]], (1848-1928), chemist * [[John Mitchell Keiller]], (1851–1899), preserves and confectionery manufacturer * [[George Saunders (born 1859)|George Saunders]], (1859–1922), journalist * [[David Coupar Thomson]], (1861–1954), newspaper proprietor * [[Andrew Macbeth Anderson]], (1862-1936), Senior Scottish judge, [[Solicitor General for Scotland]] (1911-1913) and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] MP for [[North Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)|North Ayrshire]] 1910-1911 * [[Fred Miller (journalist)|Fred Miller]], (1863-1924), editor of [[The Daily Telegraph]], 1923-1924 * Sir [[James Walker (chemist)|James Walker]], (1863–1935), Professor of [[Chemistry]] at [[University of Dundee|University College, Dundee]], and the [[University of Edinburgh]] * [[Millar Patrick]], (1868–1951), hymnologist and liturgist * [[William Thomas Calman]], (1871–1952), zoologist, Keeper of Zoology at the [[British Museum]] * [[Norman Kemp Smith]], (1872–1958), Professor of [[Logic]] and [[Metaphysics]] at the University of Edinburgh * [[H. N. Brailsford]], (1873- 1958) [[journalist]] and [[author]] * (Elizabeth) [[Hilda Lockhart Lorimer]], (1873–1954), classical scholar * Colonel [[George Waterston Millar]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]], 1874-1955, Lecturer at the [[University of St Andrews]], army medic * [[Charles Coupar Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay]], (1875–1940) politician * [[Agnes Forbes Blackadder]], [[Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland|FRCSI]], (1875-1964), surgeon, first female graduate of the University of St Andrews * [[David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer]], (1876–1962), diplomat and linguist * [[Preston Watson]], (1880-1915), pioneer of aviation, argued to have made the world’s first powered flight * [[Robert William Chapman]], (1881–1960), literary scholar and publisher * [[Alexander Gray (poet)|Sir Alexander Gray]], (1882–1968), Jaffrey [[Professor]] of [[Political Economy]] at the University of Aberdeen and poet * [[William Laughton Lorimer]] (1885–1967), classical scholar and translator * [[William John Tulloch]],(1887–1966), bacteriologist * [[James S. Stewart]], (1896-1990), Theologian, [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]], (1963-1964) * [[David Patrick Thomson]], (1896-1974), Church of Scotland minister, evangelist * [[John Scott Fulton]], Baron Fulton (1902–1986), first [[Vice-Chancellor]] of the [[University of Sussex]] and public servant * [[Walter Perry]], (1921 - 2003) Lord Perry of Walton, first Vice-Chancellor of the [[Open University]] * Sir [[Alan Peacock (economist)|Alan Peacock]] (1922-), [[economist]], Vice-Chancellor of the [[University of Buckingham]], (1983-1984) * [[Donald MacArthur Ross, Lord Ross]], (1927–) [[Lord Justice Clerk]], (1985-1997) * [[Dave Duncan (writer)|Dave Duncan]], (1933-) [[author]] * [[William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk]], [[Order of the Thistle|KT]] (1935-), [[Lord President of the Court of Session]], 2001-2005 * [[Iain MacMillan]], (1938-2006), photographer * [[Finlay Macdonald (moderator)|Finlay MacDonald]], (1945-) Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, [[Moderator of the General Assembly]] (2002-2003) * [[Air Marshal]] [[Iain McNicoll]], (1953-), Deputy Commander-in-Chief Operations, [[RAF Air Command]] * [[Frank Hadden]], (1954-), ex-Scottish [[rugby union]] coach * [[David Taylor (executive)|David Taylor]], (1954-), General Secretary of [[UEFA]] * [[Brian Taylor (journalist)|Brian Taylor]], (1955-), [[BBC]] journalist * [[Fr Gabriel Everitt OSB]], (1956-), Headmaster of [[Ampleforth College]] * [[Ricky Ross (musician)|Richard Ross]], (1957-), songwriter and frontman for [[Deacon Blue]] * [[Andrew Marr]], (1959-), journalist * [[A. L. Kennedy]], (1965-) author * [[Andy Nicol]], (1971-) ex-Scottish rugby international * [[KT Tunstall]], (1975-), [[singer-songwriter]] * [[Jon Petrie]], (1976-) ex-Scottish rugby international * [[Mark Beaumont (cyclist)|Mark Beaumont]] (1983-) Record holder for around world cycle * [[Richie Vernon]] (1987-) Scottish Rugby International ==References== * The Dundee High School Magazine 1934 * The High School of Dundee Prospectus 1964 * Durkan, J., “Education: The Laying of Fresh Foundations”, in J. MacQueen (ed.), Humanism in Renaissance Scotdland (Edinburgh, 1990). * Durkan, J., “The cultural background in sixteenth-century Scotland, in David McRoberts (ed.) Essays on the Scottish Reformation, (Glasgow, 1962), pp. 274–331. * Maxwell, A., Old Dundee prior to the Reformation, (Dundee, 1891). * Stephenson, J.M.W., Education in the Burgh of Dundee in the Eighteenth Century, (Edinburgh, 1973). {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.scottishschoolsonline.gov.uk/schools/highschoolofdundeedundeecity.asp High School of Dundee's page on Scottish Schools Online] [[Category:1239 establishments|Dundee, High School of]] [[Category:Schools in Dundee]] [[Category:Educational institutions established in the 13th century|Dundee, High School of]] [[Category:Private schools in Scotland]] [[Category:Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference]] [[Category:High School of Dundee alumni]] [[Category:Organisations based in Scotland with royal patronage]] [[Category:Category A listed buildings|Dundee, High School of]] [[Category:Listed schools in Scotland|Dundee, High School of]] [[Category:Listed buildings in Dundee]] [[Category:Schools with Combined Cadet Forces]] [[Category:Charities based in Scotland]]'