Morrison’s Academy teams up with Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones

SCOTLAND’S first Peter Jones Enterprise Academy is launching at Morrison’s Academy, the independent school in Crieff. Pupils at the school will gain “real world experience by bringing the boardroom to the classroom” thanks to the partnership with the Peter Jones Foundation for Enterprise. The school said that the new academy will “help foster a culture enterprise,…

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Glenalmond College Set to Host Virtual Open Day

For the first time in its 173-year history, Glenalmond College in Perthshire is set to host a Virtual Open Day, giving visitors or prospective parents and pupils a chance to ‘meet’ staff and tour the school. The event, which is free and open to all, takes place on Saturday 9 May and will allow families…

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So you think you can write…

Budding young writers have been invited to submit entries to the Young Walter Scott Prize, a UK-wide historical writing prize for 11-19 year olds. The prestigious prize challenges young people to write a piece of short fiction set in a time before they were born, with the winners receiving a £500 travel grant and a…

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Time to learn about the birds and the bees

A survey by animal charity Noah’s Ark has exposed a remarkable lack of knowledge about the natural world from the British public. The curious beliefs held by the public include the fact that 14% of Britons think that the woolly mammoth is endangered, when it is extinct, while more than 1 in ten also believe…

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Strathallan signs former Scotland rugby star

Jim Thompson, once the top try scorer in the Scotland leg of the World Rugby Seven Series, has returned to Scotland to take up position as director of sport at Strathallan School in Perthshire. Boasting a formidable career on the pitch for Scotland, Edinburgh Rugby and London Scottish, the former fullback moves back from King’s…

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The Battle of Prestonpans

Children aged between 10 and 17 are being invited to take part in a brand new project to mark the 275th anniversary of the Battle of Prestonpans, one of the most significant battles in Scottish history. Entries which commemorate the battle – which can be in prose, poetry or art and design – should be…

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Window on the world

Day pupils at the Royal Blind School, run by Scottish charity Royal Blind, are accessing the world using special braille devices as the coronavirus lock-down continues. The BrailleNote Touch, small devices which have a braille keyboard and a refreshable braille display, are being used by visually impaired pupils to continue their learning while at home.…

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New Warden at Glenalmond

Perthshire boarding school Glenalmond College has a new headmaster. Dr Michael Alderson recently joined the school as its new Warden, taking over from Hugh Ouston, who stepped down this month after a 15-month interim role at the helm. Dr Alderson was most recently Deputy Head at Durham School, and began his teaching career in 2000 after…

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Pupils booked up for an exciting train journey

Pupils at a Scots school received a visit from the authors of an exciting new book. Prior to schools closing with the coronavirus pandemic, more than 150 East Lothian school children listened to bestselling and award-winning author Maya Leonard and her co-author Sam Sedgeman talk about their brand new book, Adventures on Trains: The Highland…

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Glasgow Science Centre goes online

Glasgow Science Centre will be releasing free online science content every day at 10am so that people at home don’t have to miss out. After the centre announced it would close to the public this week, the team decided the best way to keep people engaged with science was to take content online. The result…

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