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Encyclopedia > Fettes College
Fettes College
Motto Industria
Established 1870
Type Independent school
Headmaster Mr. Michael Spens
Founder Sir William Fettes
Students circa 600
Location Edinburgh, Scotland
Website www.fettes.com

Fettes College is an independent boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is sometimes referred to as a public school in the English sense, but in Scotland as in most of the English-speaking world, the term "public school" signifies a local government run state school.[1] Image File history File links Fetteslogo. ... A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ... An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges, gifts, and perhaps the investment yield of an endowment. ... Sir William Fettes (1750-1836) was a Scottish businessman, who is best known for making the bequest which funded the foundation of Fettes College, in Edinburgh. ... , Edinburgh (() pronounced ; Scottish Gaelic: ) is the capital of Scotland and its second largest city. ... Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Cha togar mfhearg gun dioladh (Scottish Gaelic) Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic and Scots1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... , Edinburgh (() pronounced ; Scottish Gaelic: ) is the capital of Scotland and its second largest city. ... Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Cha togar mfhearg gun dioladh (Scottish Gaelic) Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic and Scots1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... A public school, in current English, Welsh and Northern Ireland usage, is a (usually) prestigious independent school, for children usually between the ages of 11 or 13 and 18, which charges fees and is not financed by the state. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total 130... Definitions of the Anglosphere vary: one definition (depicted, all in blue) includes two node countries – the United Kingdom and the United States – and five outliers: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... State school is an expression used in the United Kingdom and other countries apart from the United States to distinguish schools provided by the government from public schools which are in fact private institutions. ...

Contents

Overview

There are 600 pupils at Fettes; these consist of 460 boarders and 140 day pupils. Fees per term are £7,442 for boarders and £5,280 for day pupils, with three terms a year.[2] Discounts are available if multiple children from the same family attend the school, as well as for children of members of the armed forces. Scholarships are also available which pay up to a third of a pupils fees, with bursaries available for scholarship holders which can provide additional assistance, up to the full value of the fees.[3] This article is about scholarship (noun) and scholarship as a form of financial aid. ...


Fettes was an all-boys school until 1970 when female pupils were first admitted, for the final year; and since 1983 the school has been co-educational. The current Headmaster, appointed in 1998, is Michael Spens, previously Head at Caldicott School. Caldicott is a Prep School for boys aged 7-13, close to London. ...


History

Fettes College
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To perpetuate the memory of his only son William, who had predeceased him in 1815, Sir William Fettes (1750-1836), a former Lord Provost of Edinburgh and wealthy city merchant, bequeathed the then very large sum of £166,000 to be set aside for the education of poor children and orphans. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (600x800, 114 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Fettes College User:Wangi User:Wangi/Images Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (600x800, 114 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Fettes College User:Wangi User:Wangi/Images Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital... Sir William Fettes (1750-1836) was a Scottish businessman, who is best known for making the bequest which funded the foundation of Fettes College, in Edinburgh. ... The Lord Provost of Edinburgh is the convener of the City of Edinburgh local authority. ... The text or formatting below is generated by a template which has been proposed for deletion. ...


After his death the bequest was effected and invested and the accumulated sum was then used to acquire the land, to build the main building and found the school in 1870. Fettes College thus opened with 53 pupils (40 were Foundation Scholars with 11 others boarding & 2 day pupils).


Over the last decade Fettes candidates have regularly achieved very high academic standards at A level and GCSE as evidenced by: The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in the United Kingdom, usually taken by students in the final two years of secondary education (commonly called the Sixth Form), or in College (not to be mistaken with the college term some countries such as... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

  • In 1998 Fettes was placed 4th in the Daily Telegraph league table of Schools
  • In 1999 Fettes was placed 5th in the Sunday Times list of top mixed independent schools in the UK
  • In 2001 Fettes was declared "Scottish School of the year" by the Sunday Times.[4]
  • Fettes is regularly placed first in the list of Scottish Independent Schools by the Sunday Times.[5].

The Headmaster who provoked most controversy was Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1971-79), formerly of Eton. The investigative journalist Paul Foot wrote an expose in Private Eye detailing his excessive use of corporal punishment while he was a Housemaster at Shrewsbury School. Tim Card, a former Vice-provost of Eton College, said Chenevix-Trench's resignation from that school was caused by his heavy drinking and his overuse of the cane. Chenevix-Trench did reveal, at the 1974 Commemoration Dinner, that he had been glad to have left Eton as its form of administration was not something he lived with happily. [6] This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... The Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. ... Anthony Chenevix-Trench (May 10, 1919 - June 21, 1979) is best known as the Headmaster of Eton College from 1964-1970. ... Eton can refer to several things: Eton, Berkshire, a town in England. ... Paul Foot, campaigning journalist Paul Mackintosh Foot (8 November 1937 – 18 July 2004) was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). ... Private eye may mean: Look up Private eye on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Private Eye a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop (as of 2005) A private investigator, a private detective for hire (see also crime fiction and detective fiction) Private Eye, a song by Alkaline Trio... Corporal punishment is forced pain intended to change a persons behaviour or to punish them. ...


In 2002, a couple of incidents involving drugs occurred at the school. Three sixth-form boys were excluded from the school over drugs: two were caught with Cannabis at a school event, while the other failed a drugs test while on a school trip. A female sixth-former was correctly expelled for revealing details of these exclusions to the media. Writing a letter to parents the Head described her actions as "despicable", "reprehensible" and "well beyond the pale".[7]


A physics teacher, who claimed to have suffered from leukaemia for the past four years, was found to have been faking her illness (shaving her head, appearing to faint in the classroom) and was asked to leave the school.[8] In April of that year, a pupil was shot by another pupil with an air pistol - the incident was not reported to the police but was instead dealt with by school authorities. [9] Leukemia (leukaemia in Commonwealth English) is a group of blood diseases characterized by malignancies (cancer) of the blood-forming tissues. ... Air guns are weapons that propel a bullet using compressed air or another gas, possibly liquefied. ...


In early 2007, videos made at the school- which were apparently based on the television programme Jackass- were posted to the video-sharing website YouTube. These videos featured stunts such as pupils smashing branches over their heads and walking on banisters, as well as nudity and the consumption of alcohol. The videos also included a pupil having his head flushed down the toilet, a form of ritual hazing. A local newspaper reported that Fettes pupils were being investigated by school authorities over the incident.[10] Look up jackass in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Hazing is an often ritualistic test, which may constitute harassment, abuse or humiliation with requirements to perform meaningless tasks, sometimes as a way of initiation into a social group. ...


Curriculum

Fettes College has always followed the English, rather than the Scottish education system. Pupils take GCSEs rather than Scottish Standard Grades and, due to the recent removal of the Scottish Highers examination, students now have the choice between the A Level exam system or the new International Baccalaureate Diploma, but cannot take Scottish exams. Education in England is the responsibility of Department for Education and Skills at national level and, in the case of publicly funded compulsory education, of Local Education Authorities. ... Education in Scotland has a long history of universal provision of public education, and comes under a different system from that elsewhere in the United Kingdom. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Higher Grade is the level of examination normally taken by students in Scotland at age about 16-17 years. ... The A-level, short for Advanced Level, is a General Certificate of Education qualification in the United Kingdom, usually taken by students in the final two years of secondary education (commonly called the Sixth Form), or in College (not to be mistaken with the college term some countries such as... The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a group of three educational programmes and their respective examinations, as established by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). ...


Fettes is an IB World School, one of only three schools in Scotland to have attained this status.[11] A total of 1470 schools (as of September 2005) offer one or more of the three International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes; the majority of these offer the IB Diploma Programme. ... Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Cha togar mfhearg gun dioladh (Scottish Gaelic) Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic and Scots1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II...


School culture

Some major events in the life of the school include:

  • 1875: 200 boys were enrolled.
  • 1887: November: the installation of a telephone
  • 1890: May: the burning down of the School Swimming Baths
  • 1921: the School’s War Memorial was unveiled
  • 1939: building of six bomb-proof shelters by Main College Building and an air raid occurred
  • 1946: Kimmerghame House derequisitioned by Royal Navy and re-opened with 64 boys
  • 1955: visit of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh
  • 1967: Glencorse caught fire but a game of cricket continued un-interrupted
  • 1970: School centenary, and visit of Queen Mother, and girls first appeared as pupils
  • 1980: First computer introduced
  • 1984: School House closed for boys and re-opened for girls
  • 1987: running track sold
  • 1992: First female Head of School
  • 1996: link established with Ying Hao School, Guangdong, China and Fettes tartan introduced

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The Boarding Houses

There are currently seven houses; four for boys and three for girls. The male houses are large period buildings which stretch from East Fettes Avenue to Carrington Road; two of the female houses are in the upper floors of the main College Building and the third is in a modern building in the eastern part of the grounds. An innovation, reflecting the changes in responsibilities of teenagers in the school and society, is the Upper Sixth Boarding House being built for both boys and girls in their last year at Fettes, and scheduled to open September 2007. The House System is a traditional feature of British schools, similar to the collegiate system of a university. ... September 2007 is the ninth month of that year and has yet to occur. ...


Boys

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Girls

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Also

  • Craigleith is for the whole upper sixth form opening in 2007.
  • Dalmeny was renamed to Carrington in 1873 due to a post office confusion.
  • Inverleith was the previous name for the Preparatory School, now an entity in its own right.
  • School House split into College East and College West.

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Architecture

The college's main building by David Bryce (built 1863-9) blends the design of a Loire château with elements of the 19th century Scottish Baronial. The combination of styles and the site of the building make an Edinburgh landmark. David Bryce (1803-1876) was a Scottish architect. ... Loire Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire) is known as the Garden of France and the Cradle of the French Language. ... Château de Chenonceau A rural château in France. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Craigievar Castle in Aberdeenshire, completed in 1626, shows the origin of the style. ...


Headmasters

  • 1870 - 1889 Alexander Potts
  • 1890 - 1919 William Heard
  • 1919 - 1945 Alec Ashcroft
  • 1945 - 1958 Donald Crichton-Miller
  • 1958 - 1971 Ian McIntosh
  • 1971 - 1979 Anthony Chenevix-Trench
  • 1979 - 1988 Cameron Cochrane
  • 1988 - 1998 Malcolm Thyne
  • 1998 - to date Michael Spens

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Famous Old Fettesians

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Fettes and Bond

Whilst expanding on James Bond's backstory, Ian Fleming wrote in You Only Live Twice that the spy had attended Fettes College after having been removed from Eton. While Fleming never claimed there was any other source for the name of Bond than James Bond an American ornithologist, there was a real life James Bond who did attend Fettes. He was a frogman with the Special Boat Service, much as the fictional character Bond has a naval background. The school actually has his Who's Who entry copied and framed in one of its main corridors.[citation needed] Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Naval Officer. ... You Only Live Twice is the twelfth novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series. ... Eton can refer to several things: Eton, Berkshire, a town in England. ... James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond. ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ... // This page describes a type of scuba diver. ... The Special Boat Service (SBS) is the British Royal Navys special forces unit. ... Whos Who, ISBN 0-713-662-751, is an annual British publication by A & C Black of very short biographies of about 30,000 famous and/or important Britons, published since 1849. ...


Notes

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed., 1989, s.v. "Public school", available here.
  2. ^ See http://www.fettes.com/information/fees.htm.
  3. ^ See http://www.fettes.com/information/scholarships.htm.
  4. ^ See Sunday Times 21 October 2001
  5. ^ See http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/newspapers/sunday_times/scotland/article393673.ece
  6. ^ See http://www.archivist.f2s.com/cpa/pubschools/press2.htm
  7. ^ See http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=233&id=188012002.
  8. ^ See http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=233&id=188022002.
  9. ^ See http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=233&id=468292002.
  10. ^ See http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/education.cfm?id=347332007.
  11. ^ See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4799959.stm.
  12. ^ a b c d See OLD FETTESIAN NEWSLETTER, Number 46, January 2004 (OLD FETTESIAN ASSOCIATION)
  13. ^ See George Cross Database
  14. ^ See http://www.fettes.com/foundation/interviews/leckie.htm

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