CALENDAR Summer Term 2021 1 MEMBERS OF COUNCIL Col Martin Passmore MA GCGI PGCE KLJ FRSA Chair Mrs Carole Arnot Mrs Christine Bowie MSc PQD MBACP (Accred) Mr Danny Campbell Mrs Victoria Collison-Owen MA Mr Ken Dalton BSc(Hons) CEng Mr Paul Dollman BSc(Hons) CA Mr Neil Donaldson MSc Mrs Laura Jacks JD Mr Alistair J Lang BLE (Hons) LLB Dip LP Mr Philip Petersen BSc MBA Mrs Heidi Purvis BA PGCE Mrs Fenella Taylor BA (Hons) Ms Charlie Wilson BSc FCCA 2 SCHOOL MOTTO: Ad Vitam – we are preparing boys and girls for life SCHOOL MISSION: Wider options, deeper learning, richer minds SCHOOL AIM: We are educating all pupils to learn effectively, communicate articulately, respect others and participate with purpose 3 TERM DATES Senior Day Pupils (Yrs 7 - 13) to return to school by 8.25 am and Junior Day Pupils (Years 1 - 6) to return to school by 8.40 am on the first day of each term SUMMER 2021 Tuesday 6 April 8.30 am Term begins Boarders phased return starts. Boarding Houses open from 9.00 am 6.00 pm Supper for Boarders Friday 14 May 4.15 pm Half Term begins IB Diploma course ends. Yr 13 Prizegiving Boarding Houses will remain open during Half Term Sunday 23 May Half Term ends 6.00 pm Supper for Boarders Monday 24 May 8.30 am Term resumes Wednesday 23 June 11.00 am Yrs 1 - 6 Prizegiving 4.15 pm Term ends Boarding Houses close AUTUMN 2021 Thursday 19 August New Staff Induction (am) Friday 20 August Staff Meetings / INSET Saturday 21 August Boarding Houses open from 10.00 am Sunday 22 August Start of Year Family BBQ Monday 23 August Staff Meetings / INSET Boarding Houses: Outing with Resident House Tutors Tuesday 24 August Staff Meetings / INSET Yr 12 – Diploma Programme Induction Wednesday 25 August 8.30 am Term begins Friday 8 October 4.15 pm Half Term begins 5.00 pm Boarding Houses close Sunday 24 October Half Term ends 1.00 pm Boarding Houses open; 4 6.00 pm Supper for Boarders (UK clocks go back 24 October) Monday 25 October 8.30 am Term resumes Friday 10 December 12.00 Term ends 5.00 pm Boarding Houses close SPRING 2022 Wednesday 5 January Staff INSET Boarders return from 9.00 am; Supper at 6.00pm Thursday 6 January 8.30 am Term begins Friday 11 February 4.15 pm Half Term begins 5.00 pm Boarding Houses close Sunday 20 February Half Term ends Boarders return from 1.00 pm; Supper at 6.00 pm Monday 21 February 8.30 am Term resumes Friday 1 April 12.00 pm Term ends. Boarding Houses close at 5.00 pm Easter Sunday: 18 April (UK clocks go forward 27 March) SUMMER 2022 Thursday 21 April Staff INSET – Day 1 of 2 Friday 22 April Staff INSET – Day 2 of 2 Sunday 24 April Boarders return from 9.00 am; Supper at 6.00pm Monday 25 April 8.30 am Term begins Friday 27 May 4.15 pm Half Term begins IB Diploma course ends. Yr 13 students return for Leavers Speeches and Prizegiving in June 5.00 pm Boarding Houses Sunday 5 June Half Term ends Boarders return from 1.00 pm; Supper at 6.00pm Monday 6 June 8.30 am Term resumes Thursday 30 June Yrs 1 - 6 Prizegiving 12.00 noon Yrs 1 - 13 Term Ends 12.00 noon Boarding Houses close Prizegiving Ceremony: Wednesday 15 June (tbc) 5 ACADEMIC STAFF Acting Headmistress Dawn Pemberton-Hislop BA Hons (Sheffield), MBA (Keele) Iona Stevenson MA (Aberdeen) - Head’s PA Deputy Head (Wellbeing) Andrew Durward BEd Hons (Edinburgh) Deputy Head (Boarding) Gerard Young BSc (Strathclyde) Acting Deputy Head (Teaching and Learning) Ben Seymour BSc Hons (UEA, Norwich) Alison Abubaker Dip HE (Dundee) - Deputy Heads’ PA Head of Sixth Form (Years 12 & 13) Aileen Rees MA Hons (Cambridge) Acting Diploma and Career Programmes Co-ordinator (Years 12 & 13) Alfonso Iannone MA Hons (Edinburgh) Head of Year 10, Year 11 and Pre-IB David Blair BSc Hons (Stirling) Head of Years 7 - 9 Fiona McGregor BSc Hons (St Andrews) Middle Years Programme Co-ordinator (Years 7 - 9) Kathryn McGregor BA Hons (Southampton) Head of Years 4 - 6 and Outdoor Learning Duncan Barrable BCOM (South Africa) and GDTO (Queensland) Senior Teacher Years 4 - 6 Nicola Arkwright BEd Hons (Coventry) Primary Years Programme Co-ordinator (Years 1 - 6) Catherine Brannen MEd (Aberdeen), MA (Madrid) Head of Years 1 - 3 Claire Boissiere MA Hons (Dundee) Alison Dewar, PYP Secretary 6 Art & Design Donna Rae MA (Glasgow), BFA (Chicago) Margaret Behrens BA Hons (Edinburgh) Camilla Fyfe BA Hons (Oxford) Winsome Hardie BA Hons (DJCAD), PGDE (Dundee) Linda Jackson BA Hons (DJCAD) William Clark MA (Winchester), BA Hons (Dundee) Classics Andrew Lang MA Hons (St Andrews) Rebecca Masson MA Hons (St Andrews), MLitt (St Andrews) Computer Science Gus Ferguson MBChB (Cape Town), MSc (Heriot Watt), PGDip (UHI) Economics and Business Management John Lambert MA Hons (Dundee) Paula Prudencio-Aponte MA Hons (Bolivia), MSc (Manchester), PGDip (St Andrews) EAL and English B Dawn Cremonese MA Hons (St Andrews), MA TESOL (Leicester) Nicola Greener BA Hons (Newcastle) English Nafeesa Abdul-Karim MA (St Andrews), MPhil (Cambridge) Katharine Gilbertson MA Hons (St Andrews) Denise Johnston BA Hons (Cardiff) Andrew Proudfoot BA Hons (Liverpool) Vanessa Samuel MA Hons (Cambridge) Geography Jill White BSc Hons (Aberdeen) Amy Henderson MA Hons (Dundee) Victoria Sherwood BEd Hons (Manchester Metropolitan) 7 History Damian Kell MA Hons (Oxford), BA Hons (Oxford) Susannah Adrain MA Hons (Dundee) Lorna Greenwood MA Hons (Edinburgh) David McLeish MA History (Dundee) Jennifer Murray-Turner BEd (British Columbia), BA (Hons) (Toronto) Learning Support Gillian Greenwood MA Hons (Cambridge) Lisa Donald BEd (Manchester) Ann Stephens BEd (Dundee) James Turner BEd (Toronto), BSc Hons (Nottingham Trent), MSc (Brunel) Library Angela Tawse MA (St Andrews), MA(UCL), MCLIP Mathematics Russell Hall BSc Hons (St Andrews) Hilary Ballantine BSc Hons (Edinburgh) Michael Dick BSc Hons (St Andrews) Jonathan Edwards BEd Hons (Wales) Stuart Reilly BSc Hons (OU), BA Hons (OU) Kristina Struck State Exam MA (Berlin) John Western BSc Hons (Bristol) Modern Languages (Language and Literature) A Nora Gannon MA (Aix-Marseilles) Anne Bavaj First State Examination MA (Bonn), Second State Examination (Aachen) Anna Beck BA (Columbia), MBA (Cornell) Marion Dalvai MA (Trento), MPhil (Dublin), PhD (Dublin) Mizuki Morisaki BSc (St Andrews) Andrea Morris MA Hons (Glasgow) Haiyan Wang BA MA (Sichuan, Chengdu), MSc (Dundee) 8 Modern Languages (Language Acquisition) B Mary Bradley BA Hons (Durham) Rie Adya BA MA (Rissho), MPhil, PhD (Delhi) Susana Aranzana-Gonzalez BA, MA, CAP (Valladolid) Tania Bermejo-Vazquez BA (Granada) Louise Lacaille MA Hons (St Andrews), MSt (Oxford) Rebecca Masson MA Hons (St Andrews), MLitt (St Andrews) Jorien Smulders Music Fiona Love BMus Hons (Glasgow) Marjorie Cleghorn LGSM (Napier), Music School Secretary Robin Bell BMus Hons (Glasgow), ARCO (London), ARSCM (Salisbury) Kate Chisholm GRNCM, PG Dip (RSAMD) Douglas Clark Dip Mus Ed (RSAMD) Kenneth Cormack BMus Hons (RCS) Martin Dibbs MA, MLitt, PhD (St Andrews), DMS (ARMC) Darryl Dick BMus Hons (Birmingham) Winston Emmerson BSc Hons (Rhodes), MSc, PhD (UPE) Stuart Foggo Ruth Irons GDJ (St Andrews), MA Hons (Oxford) Kirstie Logan BSc Hons (OU), Graduate (RNCM) Jessica Long MA Hons (St Andrews), Dip ABRSM, PGDip (RCS) Dorothy McCabe GRSM, ARCM, ATCL, Cert.Ed. (London) Mairi McCabe BMus Hons (Napier), ATCL, Dip ABRSM Melanie O’Brien Dip TCL (TCM London), ALCM, LLCM (Napier) Megan Read MA (Glasgow), PGDipMus (RSAMD) Suzannah Rice BA Hons (Southampton), PGDip (TCM) Lynne Ruark DRSAM, LRAM, (Glasgow) Toni Russell BA Hons (Strathclyde) Paul Shiells BEd Hons (Aberdeen) Sally Shiells BEd Hons (Aberdeen), MMus (Aberdeen) Dorine Sorber MA (RC Brussels) 9 Physical Education Mark Baxter BEd Hons (Edinburgh) David Blair BSc Hons (Stirling) Fintan Bonner BA (Ireland) Louise Carroll BEd Hons (Edinburgh) Rosie Dawson BA Hons (Bangor) Neil Hislop BEd Hons (Jordanhill) Duncan McIntyre BSc (Robert Gordon) Andrew Turnbull BSc (Napier) Psychology Craig Martin BSc Hons (St Andrews) Science Sophie Pollard BSc Hons (Plymouth), MRSC Patrick Smith BSc (Glasgow) Rachel Deegan BA (Oxford) Mary Kennovin BSc Hons (Portsmouth), PhD (St Andrews) Charlotte Kirby BSc Hons (St Andrews) Fiona McGregor BA Hons (St Andrews) Robert MacGregor BSc Hons (Edinburgh) Craig Martin BSc Hons (St Andrews) Anna Radons-Harris BSc Hons (Lancaster) Aileen Rees MA Hons (Cambridge) Sara Tedesco MSc (Taranto), PhD (Cork) Gerard Young BSc (Strathclyde) Mark Arnold HNC (Dundee) Alison Hill MSc (Glasgow), BSc Hons (Aberdeen), PhD (Belfast) Lyall Smith 10 Theatre Nichola McQuade-Powell BEd Hons (RCSSD) Christian Olliver BA (London RCSSD), BA Hons (Birmingham Trent), MA (London City) Laura Stewart MA Hons (Kent) Eva Walker BA Hons (West of Scotland) Primary Years Programme Marina Barclay PDA - Classroom Assistant Ailsa Beebee BEd (Dundee) Aisling Bonner BA (Dublin City) Dianne Cormack BSc Hons (St Andrews) - Maths & Science Co-ordinator Anna Fisher MA Hons (Dundee) Andrew Fynn MA Hons (Edinburgh) Teresa Fynn MA Hons (Edinburgh) Elena Germanino MA (Torino), BA (Torino) Annabel Lindsay BA Hons (Oxford Brookes) Georgina Majcher BSc Hons (Northumbria) Louise McQuade BEd Hons (Glasgow) Caz McIntee - Classroom Assistant Adele Neave BA Hons (Glasgow School of Art) Billie Paterson Herd, NC Childcare & Education - Classroom Assistant Laura Stewart MA Hons (Kent) Boarding Houses Gerard Young BSc (Strathclyde) Bishopshall: Jennifer Murray-Turner BEd (British Columbia), BA Hons (Toronto) Yulia Barlow BA (Yaroslavl), MA Hons (St Andrews) Rachel Hoodcamp Eva Walker Gemma Watson BA Hons (York) 11 Ollerenshaw: John Western BSC Hons (Bristol) Jane Barclay