This Term

January | February | March
DATE TIME EVENT
JANUARY   2009 LENT TERM
WEEK 1      
Tues 6 9.00 am Staff Chapel Service - all staff welcome to attend
    9.20 am Staff Meeting
    10.00 am Lacrosse Pre Season training until 4.00 pm
    10.00 am INSET: Preparing for Inspection, School Management System, Virtual Learning, Warden's Briefing
    1.30 pm HoDs Meeting until 3 pm to include HoDs INSET; (preparing for Inspection)
    3.00 pm House Staff Meeting until 4.30 pm
    4.30 pm Departmental Meetings, if required, until 5.00 pm
    5.00 pm SMT Meeting, Warden's Study until 6 pm
    7.00 pm Lent Term Begins - Boarders Arrive
Wed 7 8.10 am Day Pupils to arrive
    8.30 am Chapel
    7.00 pm VIth Form & William Bright Society Lecture: "African Adventures on a Mercy Ship"
Dr Keith Thomson, FRCA, OG, Music School
    8.45 pm Compline
Thurs 8 8.30 am AS and A2 Exams begin - End Friday 30 January
      Revision for All Lower and Upper VIth Form in Departments or Houses
    4.00pm Girls' Hockey - Midlands Final vs Dollar Academy @ Stirling
    5.00 pm Futurewise Feedback for Vth Form, Theatre
Fri 9   Revision for All Lower and Upper VIth Form in Departments or Houses
       
Sat 10 10.00am X-Country - Bupa Junior Winter Run, Holyrood Park
    11.00 am Rugby - Development XV v tba
    1.30 pm Hockey - U14 & U15 Festival v Fettes; Gordonstoun & Loretto (H)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - 1st, 2nd & 3rd XII v Fettes (H)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - U15 A & B, U14 A & B XII v Fettes (A)
    3.45 pm Hockey - 1st XI v Fettes (A)
WEEK 2      
Sun 11 10.45 am Chapel - Holy Eucharist - Preacher: The Chaplain. Day Pupils to attend
    1.15 pm Life Drawing Class until 4.30 pm - Visiting Tutor
    1.30 pm Cultural Tour I
    10.00 am Merewether School, Australia arrive, staying in Cairnies and Host Families - depart Monday
    2.00 pm Netball: 1st & 2nd VII v Merewether School
    2.00 pm Hockey - 1st XI vs Boroughmuir HS (H)
    3.00 pm House Basketball
    4.00 pm Girls Football v Merewether School
Mon 12 8.45 am Vth Form Trial Examinations to Fri
    1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert
Tues 13 6.30 pm Debating: The Courier Competition (Round 2) at Craigclowan
Wed 14 2.00 pm Lower VIth Form Artists Mosaic Feltmaking Workshop until 5.45 pm
    2.30 pm Hockey - U14 XI v Ardvreck (H)
    6.30 pm Pupil School Council Meeting, Conference Room
    7.00 pm Debating: ESU Mace hosted by Glenalmond
    8.45 pm Compline
Thurs 15 4.00 pm Swimming - Lent Meet 1 tba
    7.00 pm Debating: The Courier Competition (Round 2) hosted by Glenalmond
    8.00 pm Essay Society Price's
Fri 16 6.30 pm CCF Piobaireachd Comp Edinburgh Academy
    7.00 pm OG Club AGM, New Club, Edinburgh, followed by the Annual Scottish Dinner.
(7.15 pm for 8.00 pm)
    7.00 pm Reid's House Burns Supper
Sat 17 8.30 am Pipe Band: Piping & Drumming, Vale of Atholl Solo Competition, Pitlochry
    9.00 am Lacrosse: 1st and 2nd XII - Scottish Open Tournament, Loretto
    11.00 am Rugby - A & B Development XV v St Aloysius (A)
    11.00 am Hockey - 1st & U14 XI v Balerno (H)
    2.00 pm Hockey - Junior Inter-House Tournament
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - U14 Development Day (A)
    8.00 pm Burns Supper followed by Ceilidh
WEEK 3      
Sun 18 10.45 am Chapel - Preacher: The Rev'd Philip Patterson
    12 noon Lacrosse: 1st XII v OG's
    1.15 pm Life Drawing Class until 4.30 pm - Visiting Tutor
    2.00 pm Football (SISFA) - 1st XI v Dollar, Stirling University
    2.30 pm Hockey - 1st XI v The Grange (H) (Reserve Cup)
    3.00 pm House Basketball
Mon 19 1.00 pm Lower VIth Form Politics pupils visit to Westminster, return Tues 20/01 7.30 pm
    1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert
    6.05 pm HoD's Meeting
Tues 20 2.30 pm Hockey - 3rd & 4th XI v Strathallan (H)
    3.15 pm Hockey - Colts A & B v Strathallan (A)
    3.45 pm Hockey - 1st & 2nd XI v Strathallan (H)
    4.30pm Hockey - Jun Colts A & B v Strathallan (A)
    4.30 pm Netball - 1st & 2nd VII v Kilgraston (A)
    5.00 pm "Why Poetry Matters", by Dr Henry Marsh, for William Bright Society Lower School Pupils
Classroom 43
    7.00 pm ChemSoc: "Are You Dying for a Suntan?" D'Arcy Thompson Lecture, Theatre, University of Dundee
VIth Form Scientists
Wed 21 6.30 pm Debating Senior Semi-Finals
    7.00 pm Debating Junior Semi-Finals
    7.30 pm William Bright Society
    8.45 pm Compline
Thurs 22 2.15 pm Lacrosse - U15 Loretto Invitational Tournament
    2.30 pm Football - 2nd XI v Strathallan (A)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - 1st & 2nd XII v St Leonards (A)
    8.00 pm Essay Society Price's
    6.00 pm Rugby - Development Squad depart for Midlands Tour
Fri 23 2.30 pm Rugby - Development XV v King Edward VI School, Stratford (A)
    3.45 pm Upper VIth Form Parents' Meeting, Theatre
    4.00 pm First Leave Out Begins
Sat 24    
WEEK 4      
Sun 25 9.30 pm First Leave Out Ends
    2.00 pm Rugby: Development XV v Princethorpe College (A)
    10.00 pm Rugby - Development Squad return
Mon 26   Saturday Lessons after Break and in the afternoon
    1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert
    7.00 pm William Bright Society Lecture, Music School. "Cancer: lessons from unnatural History" by Alastair Munro, Professor of Radiation Oncology and Honorary Consultant Radiotherapist, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School
Tues 27   Dress Easy Day
    2.30 pm Football (SISFA) - 1st XI v QVS (A)
    2.30 pm Netball - 1st & 2nd VII v Strathallan (A)
    4.00 pm Netball - U15 VII v Strathallan (H)
    5.00 pm Swimming - U15 & O15 v Dollar (H)
    5.00 pm Netball - U14 VII v Strathallan (H)
    6.00 pm School Supper - Chinese New Year Celebrations in Hall
Wed 28 9.00 am Form Orders (except Vth Form)
    2.30 pm Hockey: Ardvreck v Fettes at Glenalmond
    6.30 pm Pupil School Council Meeting, Conference Room
    12.40 pm Brooks Exchange Pupils depart from Glasgow Airport, rtn Thurs 05 Mar at 8.25 am Glasgow
    8.45 pm Compline
Thurs 29 2.30 pm X-Country - Glenalmond Invitation Meet (H)
    3.00 pm Hockey - 1st & 2nd XI v Robert Gordon's (A)
    5.00 pm Netball: U15 & U14 VII Kilgraston (H)
    5.00 pm Blood Donor Session, Dewar's Centre, Perth
    7.45 pm SCR AGM
Fri 30    
Sat 31 11.00 am Rugby - Development XV v Trinity High School, Edinburgh (A)
    11.00 am Hockey - U16, Colts A & Jun Colts A v Robert Gordon's (H)
    2.00 pm Lacrosse - 1st XII v St George's (A)
      continuing to Casterton for North Small Schools Tournament
    2.00 pm Lacrosse - U15 & U14 XII v St George's (H)
    2.15pm Football (SISFA) - 1st XI vs St Leonards (H)
    7.30 pm Give Gig Concert, Theatre, Music & Comedy performed by pupils, whole school welcome
January | February | March
FEBRUARY      
WEEK 5      
Sun 1 8.30 am Munro Club I
    10.00 am Lacrosse - 1st XII - North Small Schools Tournament at Casterton
    10.45 am Chapel Choir Rehearsal
    12.00 pm Prep Schools Debating Competition
      The Glenalmond Cup - until 5.00 pm
    1.30 pm Chapel Choir Recording until 4.30 pm
    5.45 pm Evening Eucharist - Preacher: The Rt Rev'd Martin Shaw (OG),
      Bishop of Argyll & The Isles
    7.30 pm Chapel Choir Recording until 9.00 pm
      with Stephen Farr Esq, Director of Music
      Worcester College, Oxford and
      Director of Music St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge
      (continued on Monday 7.30 pm)
Mon 2   Week of Music Scholarship Auditions
    6.05 pm Warden's briefing to staff
    6.30 pm Form Orders Meeting
Tues 3 8.45 am Committee of Council Meeting, Warden's Study
    1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert
    2.00 pm Hockey - 1st & 2nd XI v Gordonstoun (A)
    2.00 pm Football - 1st XI v Gordonstoun (A)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - 1st, 2nd & 3rd XII v Loretto (A)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - U15 A & B, U14 A & B XII v Loretto (H)
Wed 4 2.30 pm Hockey: Ardvreck v Lathallan at Glenalmond
    7.30 pm William Bright Society
    8.45 pm Compline
Thurs 5 9.25 am IVth Form Lecture: "Misuse of Drugs" by Jonnie Leach Esq
      until 10.40 am
    11.00 am Junior Maths Challenge, Classroom 21 (part Vth Form)
    2.00 pm Junior Maths Challenge, Theatre (III&IVth Form)
    4.00 pm Swimming - Inter-House Gala
    8.00 pm Essay Society Price's
Fri 6 9.00 am Visit by RAF Liaison Officer, Careers Department
    3.45 pm Vth Form Parents Meeting, Theatre
    4.00 pm Half Term Begins
Sun 8   CCF: Winter Skills Expedition, Kingussie until 14 February
       
WEEK 6      
Sun 15 9.30 pm Half Term Ends
      Summer Timetable Starts
Mon 16   Brooks Exchange pupils arrive
    1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert
Tues 17 1.15 pm Confirmation Group 1 - until 2 pm (JDW&GWD)
      All Confirmation Classes meet in the Upper Library
    2.30 pm Netball - 1st & 2nd VII v Fettes (H)
    2.30 pm Netball - U15 A & B, U14 A & B VII v Fettes (A)
Wed 18   Saturday Lessons after Break and in the afternoon
    2.30pm Hockey - U14 XI v Cargilfield 1st XI (H)
    2.30 pm Hockey: Ardvreck v Loretto Nippers at Glenalmond
    6.30 pm Confirmation Group 2 until 7.15 pm (GWD)
    7.00 pm "Islam in the West - today and looking to the Future"
      VIth Form & William Bright Society Lecture -
      Dr Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies and
      Public Understanding, University of Glasgow, Music School
    8.45 pm Compline
Thurs 19 1.15 pm Confirmation Group 3 (KLP&GWD) until 2 pm
    2.15 pm Football (SISFA) - 1st & 2nd XI v Strathallan (H)
    5.00 pm Swimming - U15 & O15 v Strathallan (H)
Fri 20    
Sat 21 8.30 am II Form Entrance Tests and Art Scholarships
    10.00 am Lacrosse: Scotland Training Weekend, (A)
    2.00 pm Hockey - 3rd & 4th XI v Strathallan (A)
    2.00 pm Hockey - Jun Colts A & B v Strathallan (H)
    3.15 pm Hockey - 1st & 2nd XI v Strathallan (A)
    3.15 pm Hockey - Colts A & B v Strathallan (H)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - 1st, 2nd, 3rd XII v Fettes (A)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - U15 A & B , U14 A & B XII v Fettes (H)
    8.00 pm St Valentine's Ball
WEEK 7      
Sun 22 10.00 am Lacrosse: Scotland Training Weekend, (A)
    10.15 am Chapel: Preacher - The Chaplain
    11.45 am Recital by Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
      accompanied by Scott Mitchell (piano)
    12.00 noon Hockey - U16 & U14 Six-a-side Chameleons Tournament (A)
    6.00 pm Chamber Choir Recital at St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
Mon 23 1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert
    6.00 pm HoD's Meeting
Tues 24 1.15 pm Confirmation Group 1 until 2 pm (JDW&GWD)
    2.30 pm Netball - 1st & 2nd VII v Strathallan (H)
    2.30 pm Netball - U14A & C VII v Craigclowan (A)
    3.30 pm Netball - U15B VII v Strathallan (A)
    4.30 pm Netball - U14B VII v Strathallan (A)
    7.00 pm ChemSoc: "How Bacteria make a Coat to Baffle our
      Immune System", D'arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre,
      University of Dundee - VIth Form Scientists
    7.30 pm SCR Meeting
Wed 25 7.30 am Ash Wednesday, Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes
    9.00 am Form Orders
    11.40 am Upper VIth Form Biologists visit to Edinburgh Zoo
      return 4.30 pm
    6.30 pm Confirmation Group 2 until 7.15 pm (GWD)
    6.30 pm Pupil School Council Meeting, Conference Room
    8.30 pm Lent Address with Compline
      The Rev'd Professor David Brown FBA
Thurs 26 10.00 am Vth Form William Bright Society visit to Scottish Parliament
      for First Minister's Questions
    1.15 pm Confirmation Group 3 until 2 pm (KLP&GWD)
    2.30 pm Football (SISFA) - 1st XI v Robert Gordon's (H)
    4.00 pm Swimming - U15 & O15 v Morrison's(H)
    6.00 pm English Department Vth Form Theatre outing depart for
      King's Theatre, Glasgow - curtain up 7.30 pm
      "An Inspector Calls"
    8.00 pm Essay Society, Price's
Fri 27    
Sat 28 2.15 pm Hockey - 2nd & 4th XI v Loretto (H)
    2.15 pm Hockey - Colts A & B, Jnr Colts B XI v Loretto (A)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - 1st, 2nd & 3rd XII v Loretto (H)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - U15 A & B, U14 A & B XII v Loretto (A)
    3.30 pm Hockey - 1st & 3rd XI v Loretto (H)
    3.30 pm Hockey - Jnr Colts A XI v Loretto (A)
January | February | March
MARCH   WEEK 8  
Sun 1 8.30 am Munro Club II
    8.30 am VIth Form Duke of Edinburgh Canoe Training Day, Loch Freuchie
    9.00 am Netball: Boarding Schools Tournament, Fettes
    tbc Perth Chamber Music Society Jubilee Award Audition
    3.00 pm House Basketball
    1.30 pm Cultural Tour II
    5.45 pm Evening Chapel: Preacher - Dame Mary Tanner DBE, President, World Council of Churches
    8.00 pm CCF NCOs' Mess Dinner in Hall
Mon 2 8.30 am 13+ Scholarships to Thursday
    8.45 am Talk by Dame Mary Tanner to William Bright Society during Lessons 1 and 2
    1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert
    6.00 pm Warden's briefing to staff
    6.30 pm Form Orders Meeting
Tues 3 1.15 pm Confirmation Group 1 until 2 pm (JDW & GWD)
    2.00 pm Lacrosse - U15 A & B Tournament, St Leonards
    2.00 pm Lacrosse - U14 A & B Tournament, St George's
    2.00 pm Hockey - 1st, 2nd, Colts A & Jnr Colts A v George Watson's (H)
    2.30 pm X-Country - Fettes Relays (A)
    4.00 pm Netball - 1st & 2nd VII v Morrison's (H)
    pm Lacrosse: U15 XII depart for National Schools Competition
Wed 4 6.30 pm Confirmation Group 2 until 7.15 pm (GWD)
    6.30 pm Pupil School Council Meeting, Conference Room
    7.30 pm William Bright Society
    8.45 pm Compline
Thurs 5 8.45 am French Highers Oral Exams
    8.45 am World Book Day Book Fair, Library until 6.00 pm
    1.15 pm Confirmation Group 3 until 2 pm (GWD& KLP)
    2.00 pm Lacrosse - SCT and Ryden Rose Bowl Tournaments (H)
    2.30 pm X-Country - Strathallan Race (A)
    3.30 pm Netball - U15A VII v Strathallan (A)
    4.30 pm Netball - U14A VII v Strathallan (A)
    5.00 pm Associate Board Theory Exam
    5.00 pm Swimming - U15 & O15 Boys v Merchiston (H)
    5.00 pm Basketball - 1st team v Merchiston (H)
    5.00 pm Hockey - 2nd XI v Merchiston (H)
    5.00 pm ABRSM Theory Exam
    pm Lacrosse: U19 National Schools Tournament, Heathrow (depart)
    8.00 pm Essay Society, Price's
Fri 6 3.45 pm II and III Form Parents' Meeting, Theatre
    4.00 pm Second Leave Out begins
    pm Lacrosse: U19 National Schools Tournament, Heathrow
Sat 7 pm Lacrosse: U19 National Schools Tournament, Heathrow
WEEK 9      
Sun 8 9.30 pm Second Leave Out ends
Mon 9 10.00 am Royal Society of Chemistry - "The Young Chemical Analyst", Competition, Heriot Watt University
Lower VIth Form Chemists
    1.00 pm Team Photos
    1.30 pm Lunchtime Concert
Tues 10 All day Lacrosse - U15 National Schools Tournament
    1.15 pm Confirmation Group 1 until 2 pm (JDW&GWD)
    2.00 pm Hockey - 1st, Colts A & Jun Colts A v Stewart's Melville (A)
    2.30 pm Netball - 1st & 2nd VII v Gordonstoun (A)
    2.30 pm Netball - U15 & U14 VII v Gordonstoun (H)
Wed 11 2.30 pm Hockey: Ardvreck v Craigclowan at Glenalmond
    6.30 pm Confirmation Group 2 until 7.15 pm (GWD)
    6.45 pm William Bright Society Talk: "Reflections from the 19th" Talk by Hamish Ritchie Esq., Captain of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club and former Chairman, Marsh & McLennan Companies (UK).
    8.45 pm Compline
Thurs 12 8.45 am GCSE Art Exam for 5Ar2 - day 1
    9.00 am Publication of January Module Results
    1.15 pm Confirmation Group 3 until 2 pm (KLP&GWD)
    2.30 pm Netball - Junior Inter-House Competition
    2.30 pm Basketball v Fettes (A)
    4.00 pm Swimming - U15 and O15 vs Fettes (H)
Fri 13   Saturday Lessons after Break and in the afternoon
    8.30 am GCSE Art Exam for 5Ar2 - day 2
    6.30 pm Pipe Band: Glasgow Highland Club Competition, Glasgow Academy
    7.00 pm Borders OG Dinner, Melrose
Sat 14 10.00 am IELTS Exams, Glasgow University
    11.00 am X-Country - Scottish Schools' Championships at Irvine
    2.00 pm Lacrosse - 1st & 2nd XII v St Leonards (H)
    2.00 pm Lacrosse - U15 & U14 XII v St Leonards (H)
    2.30 pm Hockey - 2nd 3rd & 4th XI v Fettes (A)
    2.30 pm Hockey - Jun Colts A & B XI v Fettes (H)
    2.30 pm Football - 1st XI v Fettes (H)
    3.45 pm Hockey - Colts A & B XI v Fettes (H)
    4.00 pm Hockey - 1st XI v Fettes (A)
    7.30 pm House Drama Competition
WEEK 10      
Sun 15 10.00 am Lacrosse: Scotland Training Day, (A)
    10.45 am Chapel: Preacher: The Warden
    12 noon Rugby Sevens: Merchiston U18 Tournament (A)
    2.30 pm Instrumental Competition
    7.00 pm Concerto Competition: Adjudicator by Richard Walmsley Esq., Director of Music, Strathallan School
Mon 16 8.45 am GCSE Art Exam for 5Ar1 - Day 1
    9.30 am ABRSM Practical Exams (also Tues 17 Mar)
    3.45 pm Netball - Senior Inter-House Tournament
    4.30 pm Vth and VIth Form Musicians to Murthly Castle for Recital
      by Stephen Osborne
Tues 17 8.30 am GCSE Art Exam for 5Ar1 - Day 2
    12 noon Rugby Sevens - U15 & U14 Stewart's Melville Tournament (A)
    2.30 pm Lacrosse - Senior & Junior Inter-House Tournament
Wed 18 8.45 pm Compline
    10.00 am Italia 2009 Trip depart for Edinburgh Airport - rtn Thurs 26/03 at 3.40 pm
Thurs 19 10.00 am Chapel Service ends 10.30 am - Weekday Dress
    11.00 am Lent Term Ends
Fri 20    
Mon 23   Rugby Sevens - depart for U18 National Schools' Sevens Tournament, at Rosslyn Park (Tues&Wed)
       
      For Sports Fixtures information please phone the PE Department, on 01738 842080
       
      The timings and details of the events listed may occasionally change.
Up-to-date changes can be found at www.glenalmondcollege.co.uk