Education
Young Scots cellist wins top music prize
A seventeen-year-old cellist from Edinburgh has won the highly prestigious Directors’ Recital Prize 2021 presented annually by Scotland’s national music school. Layla Ballard, in her last year at St Mary’s Music School, was declared the winner of the 21st annual competition following a closely contested final with three other senior soloists. The other finalists were…
Read MoreInspirational women series comes to an end
St Margaret’s School for Girls has held its last Inspiration Women Webinar series. This featured Louise MacDonald, the newly appointed national director of the Institute of Directors, and Briana Pegado, creative director for Fringe of Colour and chair of YWCA Scotland. The online series, part of the School’s 175th Anniversary celebrations, has been to inspire…
Read MoreStrathallan marks centenary with special composition
Strathallan School marks 100 years at its Forgandenny campus this year, kicking off celebrations with a unique collaboration with award-winning composer Stuart Macrae. Throughout the year-long project, Stuart worked with music scholars from First Form to Upper Sixth at the Perthshire school to compose a suite of pieces inspired by the school’s values. Scholars worked…
Read MorePupil receives prestigious role as Lord-Lieutenant’s Cadet
For the eighth year in a row, a Morrison’s Academy pupil has been appointed the prestigious role of Lord-Lieutenant’s Cadet. Stephen Leckie, Lord-Lieutenant for Perth and Kinross presented a certificate, acknowledging the role to Cadet Sgt Lachlann Forsyth. The Lord-Lieutenant is the Queen’s official representative and the Lord-Lieutenant’s Cadet is aide and representative of the…
Read MoreOpen-access online learning encouraging youngsters
This sees the launch of FIDA (Futures Institute at Dollar Academy) – an open-access online learning platform that empowers young people to learn in new ways. They do this through innovative projects rooted in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). It has been created to address three fundamental challenges – sustainability, equitable access…
Read MorePupil attends Scots school – after months of learning in Germany
As young people across the UK settle back into full-time education, a Lomond School pupil has set foot in her new school for the first time since joining remotely back in January. Originally planning to join Lomond for a short-term language immersion, the 16-year-old pupil from Germany took the decision to see out the rest…
Read MoreThe all-girls school which is closing the STEM gender gap
St Margaret’s School for Girls in Aberdeen has reported a record-breaking 66% of 2020 pupils went on to pursue STEM-related subjects at Higher Education. That is 24.4% higher than Scotland’s national average for female enrolment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related subjects, which currently sits at 41.6%. As the oldest and only all-through girls’ school in…
Read MoreSt Margaret’s School for Girls finish third in the UK
A team of pupils from St Margaret’s School for Girls in Aberdeen did Scotland proud. They represented the country in the UK Grand Final of the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) CyberFirst code-breaking competition. After beating 6,500 girls in the qualifying stages, the second year pupils have combated cryptography and learned to master logic and…
Read MoreKilted Penny Farthing cyclist in training for #Challenge175
A kilted Perthshire cyclist is in training to complete 175 kilometres in one day on a Penny Farthing in support of a challenge led by Glenalmond College to raise funding for bursaries to attend the school. Glenalmond is gearing up to celebrate its 175th anniversary next year and is currently undertaking #Challenge175 to raise funds…
Read MorePupils knit to do their bit for new-born babies
Pupils at Strathallan School have donated a selection of hats, booties and blankets to the neonatal Unit at Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital. Eleven pupils and a house matron from the Perthshire school have been busy knitting 16 woollen little hats, four shawls and one pair of booties for the new-born babies. Determined to continue a recent…
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