Figure 1.--Dollar Accademy is located in a small Scottish village. It is one of several Scottish accademies that is coeducational. The Scottish accademies in contrast to most English public schools offers both primary and secondary |
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We have begun to collect some information on individual Scottish private schools with secondary programs. They include include several academies. These include: Daniel Stewart, Dollar, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Heriots, Morrison's, and Scotus. The schools in the major cities are primarily day schools today, but there are still boarding schools in the smller cities and towns. The Scootish schools, presumably because of the accademy influence are combined primary/secondary schools to a greater extent than the English schools. We also see a move toward coeducation a shift whichlagged behind schools in England.
Dollar Academy, located at Dollar near Sterling. Dollar is a "hillfoot" village in Clackmannanshire. A village existed at Dollar from an early date, but was destroyed by a military force commanded by the Duke of Montrose (1645). He was attacking a Covenanting force at Castle Campbell which overlooks Dollar Glen. The village was later rebuilt. The village was aided by the construction of the turnpike road (1806) and the opening of a textile mill--the Brunt Mill (1822). The major institution in Dollar today is Dollar Academy. The main building was designed by William Playfair and built (1818-20). The Academy was financed by John McNabb (1732-1802). He was a local herd-boy who went to sea, became a captain ande made a fortune. Dollar Academy is Scotland's (and apparently) the United Kingdom's oldest co-educational day and boarding school. Coeducation in private schools, especially at the secondary level, was not common in Scotland and England until the 1960s. The uniform is a dark blue blazer with the school crest. The girls wears a light-colored skirt and white kneesocks. The boys wear dark blue trousers or shorts with dark blue kneesocks, depending on their age. Presumably there once was a cap, but I am not sure when that was dropped. Through the 1980s, younger boys wore open-necked shirts while the senior boys wore neckties. The dress uniform is a tweed jacket and kilt for both the boys and girls.
Scottish and English schools have a wide variety of names. Some are misleading. Some comprehensives, for example, kept the name of the grammar schools they replaced. Academies are private schools, often comparable to private day schools. Private schools were often named academies in Scotland, but there were not very many in England. Today in Scotland there are academies that are private schools and others that are state schools.
Many Scottish schools are called "accademies". This term is not used in England. I am not sure precisely what the term accademy denoted. Thet were founded as private schools, I think mostly as secondary schools. Some are operated today along the lines of an English public (private secondary) school. Several Scottish accademies unlike public schools have junioir (primary) sections. This is the case of Morrison's Accademy. The school is located in Perthshire Scotland. We have not yet researched the school, but we have archived a photograph of a rugby team at the schools, probably from the 1980s. A former student tells us that the BBC program, "Who Rules the School" was filmed there. Scottish film star Euan MacGregor was educated there. The school is a black blazer with white piping. I assume there was once a cap, but I not sure whebn the cap was discontinued. Boys wore dark blie shorts or grey long pants. The uniform is notable for the red kneesocks that the boys wear. (THe girls wore white kneesicks.) Several Scottish schools had colored kneesocks where most English boys wear grey kneesocks.
We have been able to find little information about Scotus Academy. The school was founded in 1953. It was a Catholic School run by the Christian Brothers located in Edinburgh. The school had both primary and secondary units. An internet search turns up references to the school concerning people who attended the school, but little about the school itself. Perhaps some of our Scottish readers will know more. Some images provide us information on the school uniform. Quite a number of the boys chose to wear kilts.
We have found snapshots from a British public school, only we have no idea which one it might be. We suspect that it could be a Scottish public school, many of thm are colleges called acadamies, but it could be English. There is no way to be sure. The reason we think they could be Scottish is because the boys wear a blue uniform, blue blazers abd blue shier pants and knee socks. English school more commonly have uniforms with grey horts or trousers. The boys look to be pictured ourside their bording house. The boys wear open collared shirts rather than ties which was also more common in Scotland than England. We see other unifirms at the school like light-colored jumpers (sweaters). We also note tweed jackets. They were worn at both English and Scottish public schools Scottish boys wore them with kilts. We might not be aboe to detemine the school because e don't see school buildings, only aoaring house which ;ools to be off campus.
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