Junior Golf Team Competition
The annual Midsummer Junior Golf Team Competition hosted by Glenalmond was won by the junior team from Strathmore Golf Club near Alyth. The runners up were Dunning and the best individual score was made by Rory Stewart of Crieff. The winning team is pictured left with the Warden who presented the trophy. |
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Maths Distinction
Tim Pearson has been awarded a Distinction for coming in the top 25% in Britain in the Intermediate Maths Olympiad Paper. He has also been offered a place to attend master classes at the National Maths Summer School. |
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Many German parents are sending their children to Scotland for a more rounded education.
Scotland's independent schools are attracting significantly more German pupils than any other nationality, thanks to concerns about their country's education system.
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Scottish Island Peaks Race 2009
The mixed team finishing at Troon after rowing in from the yacht to the pontoon to officially check in.
Organiser Curly Mill commented that it was humbling to see the enthusiasm of these young people who, after enduring the extreme hardships of the race on both land and sea for the longest time of all, still having the energy to sprint up the gang plank and to smile for the camera.
Photos are at Photo Gallery
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Matheson's Victorious
Matheson's team of Jake Jauncey, Angus Walker and Will Sanderson edged themselves into victory in the Senior House Golf competition on Thursday 14th May, fighting off some stiff competition from Goodacre's. In particular Angus' score of 47 and Will's 46 (the third best score of the day) helped them secure victory and retain the trophy for the second year. Will was awarded House Half Colours for his performance.
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Gurkha Hero Remembered
On Sunday 10th May the College remembered a former pupil who was killed in action commanding a Gurkha patrol in Borneo in 1963.
After Chapel the newly constructed Combined Cadet Force Headquarters was named the Hugh Wallace Building in his memory. |
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Easter Egg Hunt and Breakfast
This year Mrs Woods combined her traditional Easter egg hunt with a Breakfast Event in aid of Mercy Ships. Mercy Ships was the charity chosen to be supported by this year's Give Gig following a talk given to the school by Dr Keith Thomson OG.
The event, held before Chapel on the last Sunday of the Lent term, was very well attended and raised £100. |
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Congratulations
to the senior boys' Cross Country Team who won the Scottish Schools event for the sixth time in eight years
to Katie Coventry who has been awarded a Choral Scholarship at Royal Holloway College
to Seamus Begg who has been awarded a bursary by the Perth Chamber Music Society
to Joshua Gibson who came 1st in the Advanced Viola Solo Class of the Perform in Perth Festival.
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Charity Car Wash
Under the watchful eye of Junior Entry Tutors Father Giles and Mrs Dove, II Form pupils recently spent two-and-a-half hours washing cars at Coll to raise funds for this year's Give Gig chosen charity, Mercy Ships. |
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Visit of Dame Mary Tanner
President of the World Council of Churches Dame Mary Tanner is the latest in a line of distinguished visitors to Glenalmond |
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Fair Bean or Foul?
The Glenalmond Food and Wines Society met recently for a talk and a tasting of Ethiopian coffees led by Sarah Sherlock of Highland Coffee... |
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Doubled success in the Intermediate Maths Challenge!
This year 101 pupils from forms 3-5 entered the Maths Challenge in February. Pupils from the Fifth form gained 4 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze awards; 4 gold, 6 silver and 9 bronze were awarded to Fourth form pupils and in the Third form there were 3 silver and 5 bronze awards. This is an outstanding doubling of last year's achievements in all sections.
Three Fourth form pupils obtained the highest marks in the College with one progressing to the first round of the British Olympiad and two through to the Pink Kangaroo Round. Two fifth form pupils also gained scores for qualification to the Pink Kangaroo Round. |
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Politics trip to London
The Lower Sixth Politics group were taken to the Palace of Westminster and given tours of both Houses of Parliament by Lord Strathclyde (Tory leader in the Lords) and Ben Wallace (former MSP and M.P for Lancaster and Wyre), after which they met in Lord Strathclyde's office for an informal chat and a Question and Answer session. |
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The Glenalmond Cup 2009
The Glenalmond Cup 2009 saw seven schools taking part: Ardvreck, Cargilfield, Craigclowan, Dollar, Kilgraston, Morrison's and St. Mary's and combined with Glenalmond dummy teams, 24 teams took part all debating two motions: "This house believes that America is Britain's friend" and "This house feels that sport is over-rated"..... |
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Congratulations to the Give Gig Crew
The Give Gig, Glenalmond's pupils' major charity fundraising event of the year, took place on the last Saturday in January 2009.
A collective effort from musicians, singers, stand-ups and actors resulted in an absolutely outstanding evening's entertainment.
The sketch writing was sharp, edgy and beautifully timed; every bit as good as the Footlights.
The standard of the nine music acts was, quite simply, professional, delivering what the audience might think was possibly the finest Give Gig yet. |
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Congratulations to the 1st Lacrosse Team
For the fifth year running, Glenalmond's 1st XII Lax team have won the small schools tournament, played last weekend at Casterton. Not a single defeat, although the semi-final v Loretto went to extra time, our girls adding two goals in those last four minutes to advance 4-2 to the Final against Fettes.
A full report, with scores, is at the Lacrosse page |
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Congratulations to Katie Coventry
Having spent some years in the training choir, Katie Coventry, who has recently gained distinctions for the ABRSM Exams in piano (Grade 7) and voice (Grade 8), has now gained a place in the main National Youth Choir of Great Britain. She will be one of about 16 altos in this prestigious group, made up of the very best young singers in the UK. The choir will tour America for three weeks this summer and make a CD recording in Los Angeles. Katie is also a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. |
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Junior Entry triumph
10 weeks ago Sensation Centre in Dundee invited Glenalmond College to participate in a 10 week project (Go4SET - Go for Science, Engineering and Technology) organised by the Engineering and Development Trust to design an environmentally friendly hotel.
Junior Entry Engineering Win
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"Alumni Montium" Launch
David Willington's history of the last sixty years of Glenalmond College's history was launched in Coll on Sunday November 30th. Mr Willington described the approach he used to develop the style and structure of the book, richly furnished with photographs throughout, which provides the reader with a detailed review of the development of Coll under successive Wardens.
Mrs Marshall, Director of Alumni and Development, will be delighted to receive your order for this fine hard back history. |
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Lush Life
"Lush", a Geordie word meaning something very pleasurable, was exactly what this musical production presented the audience with this week.
The singing of of Ella Fitzgerald songs by all six girls in the cast was outstanding, backed by a trio of Graham Robb, Ken Murray and pupil Seryn Burden.
The atmosphere, enhanced by part of the audience seated at tables at the front of the auditorium, elevated the entire production to a convincing evocation of a Newcastle nightclub, whose singer(s) flew to L.A., meeting the beat cop who witnessed the chilling ending of a life-long obsession of Lotte Hanway with the renowned Ella.
There are pictures in the Photo Gallery |
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Golf News
Carly Booth, the defending champion in the girls' section of this weekend's Daily Telegraph Junior Championship in Abu Dhabi, retained her title winning by six strokes. She is the third champion to retain her title. |
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The Glenalmond College Choral Society...
...presented the very challenging Requiem by Maurice Duruflé on Sunday November 23rd, conducted by Duncan Ferguson (pictured left), Master of the Music at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Exceptional organ playing by Robert Gower, cello by Lizzy Bartholomew and soloists Seumas Begg and Katie Coventry made for an entrancing time, sadly missed by those who were, no doubt, put off by the snow!
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Romeo and Juliet Trip Wednesday 29th October
Seventy members of the Fourth and Fifth Forms set off on Wednesday evening armed with a docket supper and a ticket to see the much coveted RSC's touring production of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's lovelorn tragedy. In all it was an interesting performance, set as it was in Mafia-run Verona. It was jazzed up with a fantastic band and the scene changes offered the simple set depth and intrigue although the "two hours traffic of our stage" was uncomfortably extended to three! However, it is always a great opportunity to see our studied GCSE plays brought to life on stage and particularly when presented by the RSC. Many thanks to the staff who helped to oversee this dramatic evening. Mr Forshaw's class, I hear, have leapt on wildly in their coursework, so all's well that ends well.
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Visit of Founder's great-granddaughter
We were honoured to recently receive Visit of Gladstone's Great Granddaughter
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