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First School in Britain to Receive Diana Gold Award Number 32 Summer 2019 First school in Britain to receive Diana Gold Award Editorial t’s not uncommon for former pupils and friends of The Academy to contact External Relations and ask for a tour of the school. Depending on how long it has Contents Ibeen since they left, it can be a case of revisiting familiar territory, but for others the school they remembered has changed dramatically. In terms of what’s important, 3 First school in Britain to buildings and classrooms are only significant insofar as they act as a prompt for stories receive Diana Gold Award of childhood friendships, of remembered teachers, whether it be for good or ill, and their own tales of past adventures and achievements. It is guaranteed that each visit 6 Sport Focus will generate a new anecdote or a long forgotten fact. 7 New moderator of Church of Sometimes External Relations acquires a cherished object, part of a former pupil’s Scotland history which they would like to make part of The Academy. We have been collecting 9 Jope takes the helm at Unilever and cataloguing school material for a number of years but as our collection grew, it was clear we needed some professional help. Last year, the Archives and Records 12 Anecdotage Association helped us secure the services of a professional archivist who set about 16 Westbourne Section pulling our records and memorabilia together and setting up a catalogue that gives us a framework for maintaining order in the future. 18 Announcements With help from the archivist, we have discovered a textbook first published in 1710, 21 Reunions & get-togethers a letter from J M Barrie and a large collection of 23 Obituaries early sporting photographs. Around the same time cataloguing work began, the school registers, dating back to the opening of the school and displayed in the Rector’s study, have been digitised and we have exciting plans for a school archive. The Academy recently received a generous Do we have your e-mail address? donation from Professor Niall Ferguson (1981) It’s how we communicate best! to remember a much-loved and highly-regarded teacher and former Head of History at The Academy – Ronnie Woods. Keeping in touch Professor Fergusson wished to mark Ronnie’s significant contribution to education and we thought The External Relations office is situated in long and hard about how best to do that. Colebrooke Terrace. Former pupils are always All of the recent archiving activities sparked an idea about linking the history of the welcome to pop in for a chat and look around school to a wider context and we thought we’d put the two strands together. the school. Just give us a call to arrange a time. In March of this year, we launched the Ronnie Woods Memorial lectures – events Our address is Colebrooke Terrace, which tie together history, education and the story of The Academy - something we Glasgow, G12 8HE. believe Ronnie would have approved of. You can contact us on 0141 342 5494 or at The first lecture was delivered Dr Stephen Mullen of Glasgow University who [email protected] spoke about The Academy’s connections to the slave trade. Dr Mullen’s work focuses The Glasgow Academical Club on Scotland and Glasgow’s historical connections with the Caribbean and wider 21 Helensburgh Drive, Glasgow, G13 1RR Atlantic world in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most recently, Dr Mullen worked on the project ‘Slavery, Abolition and the President: Paul Frame University of Glasgow’, which unravelled the institution’s historic connections with Email: [email protected] transatlantic slavery: the first project of its type in Great Britain. The Academy Club pavilion is available for The second lecture was held in April and focussed on one individual, a famous functions. alumnus, James Bridie, or as he was known at school, Osborne Mavor, and the Academical Club London Section significant contribution he made to Scottish cultural life. President: Alex Gray The final lecture in the series took place in June and our guest lecturer was Email: [email protected] Professor Ferguson who spoke on ‘The Teachings of History’ and we were joined by over 350 attendees. We are now in the process of making plans for the next series in 2020. If you have Like us on Facebook; join us on LinkedIn topic or speaker suggestion for future lectures, please do get in touch. Steven Dignall Director of External Relations 2 Etcetera First school in Britain to receive Diana Gold Award he Glasgow Academy has become established a ‘Safe Space’ referral system, can approach if they are feeling unhappy. the first school in Britain to be a place to go if pupils need help to talk They also work alongside playground Taccredited with the Diana Gold to someone about their experiences, friends to help children to play Award for anti-bullying. suggestion and communication boxes and together safely in a fun and welcoming The Diana Award was founded as a noticeboards. environment. legacy to Diana, Princess of Wales’ belief The Ambassadors are visible in the The accreditation is marked out of that young people have the power to playground and children know who they five categories: anti-bullying strategy and change the world for the better. The policy, online safety and cyber-bullying, Academy’s Preparatory School has been equality and inclusion, whole-school working with The Diana Award since involvement and school culture. August 2017 to raise awareness of how to Commenting on the achievement, combat bullying in schools. The Glasgow Academy’s Head of A team of Anti-Bullying Ambassadors Preparatory School, Sandy Mathewson, from Prep 5, 6 and 7 have developed said: “We are so proud of our pupils’ a whole-school, peer-led approach to achievement and we will continue to anti-bullying and have been instrumental work tirelessly to ensure that bullying has in changing policies so that they are no place in our School.” child-friendly, while putting in place Eleanor Marsea, Accreditation support mechanisms for children to seek Coordinator for The Diana Award, help if needed. described The Glasgow Academy as The Ambassadors worked with “the front runners”. Pupils and staff will fellow pupils on scenarios that might now feature in a film to showcase their occur in school and discussed potential excellent work in the school and to help solutions to various situations. Following other schools benchmark where they are training from The Diana Award team, the in their own journey. Ambassadors set up an online forum for sharing key events and updates. They also British Education Award: TGA achieves prestigious Digital Schools Award Advanced Higher Winner he Glasgow Academy TPreparatory School has become one of the first schools in Scotland to achieve the prestigious Digital Schools Award. The national awards scheme encourages, promotes and recognises a whole school approach to the use of digital technology in schools. Schools are assessed on the following criteria: leadership ongratulations to Tim Chan (2018) and vision, digital technology Con winning the British Education integration in the curriculum, Awards 2019 Scotland Advanced Higher culture, continuous category. Tim gained 5A grades, achieving professional development and the highest combined exam results in resources and infrastructure. pupils differentiated and stimulating opportunities Scotland for which he was recognised Digital Schools validator to use digital technologies and are always striving to with the Scottish Qualifications Jennifer McKay said: “The provide the best experiences for their pupils.” Authority’s (SQA) Academic Excellence Glasgow Academy Prep Aoife O’Connor, Programme Coordinator, Award. Tim studied at the Royal School has digital technology Digital Schools Award Scotland added: “We are Conservatoire of Scotland and has grade at the heart of its learning confident that The Glasgow Academy Preparatory 8 in voice and guitar. Tim also competed and teaching. It has a clear School will be a pioneer among schools where in triple jump for The Academy and Team vision of where their digital digitally enhanced teaching and learning is helping Glasgow. Tim reads Physics at University journey will take it in the our children and young people prepare for living and of Oxford. future. The school offers working in the 21st Century.” Etcetera 3 Hockey stars ongratulations to our 1st XI Hockey Cgirls on winning the West District 7s tournament, beating The High School of NURSERIES & Glasgow in the final. KINDERGARTENS Our 1st XI also put in a terrific Local council funding performance in the U18 Scottish available from age 3 cup, reaching the final against Dollar. Congratulations as well to our S1 girls on winning the West District hockey tournament and to our S2 girls on winning the Hutchesons’ hockey THE GLASGOW ACADEMY tournament. Well done all girls and coaches on KELVINBRIDGE | MILNGAVIE | NEWLANDS these fine performances! TGA seek to defend J.P. Morgan – Generation Global Entrepreneurial World Champions title in Tech Event Leaders Junior Summit Maths in Motion Final he Glasgow Academy won second he Glasgow Academy was proud THERE’S SOMETHING he Glasgow Academy has successfully Tplace in the 2019 J.P. Morgan Tto host the world’s first WildHearts Tmade it through to the 2019 Maths Generation Tech Event on Saturday 8 Global Entrepreneurial Leaders Junior in Motion World Final. This is the fifth June. Generation Tech is an exciting Summit on Tuesday 11 June. Over 400 FOR EVERYONE year running that the team has reached technology design challenge hosted by primary school pupils from schools the finals of this competition in which J.P. Morgan for pupils interested in a across Scotland were joined by students hundreds of schools from around the STEM career. Twenty teams took part from South Africa, India, Switzerland world take part.
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