Fettes is one of the most famous and highly regarded boarding schools in Scotland, occupying a beautiful 100-acre site only 15 minutes from the centre of Edinburgh. A space and a location becomes a place when it takes on meaning and becomes special to you. Its teachers and boarding staff are enormously dedicated, and its high-calibre pupils ever ready to dive right into the wealth of things the school has to offer. London; Manchester; Edinburgh; Essex; . It doesn't offer boarding, but has a strong academic reputation, with around 10 applicants for every place in year six, according to Tatler. In evidence to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, the man known as . Students also choose two languages from French, German, Spanish or Mandarin, and either Latin (plus Classical Greek for the top set) or another class in Art, Classical Civilisation, Drama, Music and PE. 6-3 , 205lb (190cm, 92kg) Born: in Detroit, MI us. League Tables. There are frequent school trips both home away, and the school encourages outdoor learning across the Prep curriculum. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. Facilities are excellent; theres a full-sized floodlit water based Astro turf hockey pitch (called the McMurray), a second full-sized floodlit all-weather playing surface which is used for hockey in winter and for tennis in summer, two squash courts, two fives courts, an outdoor basketball court, a swimming pool, and a climbing wall. Av. Tutors are in house during prep time to discuss work loads if these are getting on top of their tutees, and routinely talk to subject teachers to monitor pupils and make sure they arent falling behind or feeling hopeless. In 1978 the College had a nine-hole golf course, an ice-skating rink used in winter for ice hockey and in summer as an outdoor swimming pool . French and Latin are introduced in the latter years, but the programmes for these tend to repeat every year to cater for children who arrive having not studied them before (and to consolidate basic grammar for everyone else). Annual fees: 32,340. This website or its third party tools use cookies, which are necessary to its functioning and required to achieve the purposes illustrated in the cookie policy. 89% of student accepted places at their first or second choice university, and seven students received offers this year to study at Oxford and Cambridge, with places for courses across the STEM subjects and in the humanities. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the Settings & Account section. Bishopbriggs Academy was named as the Scottish state secondary school of the year. Your web browser does not support the