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Early examples of grammar schools include the High School of Glasgow in 1124 and the High School of Dundee in 1239. [4] These were usually attached to cathedrals or a collegiate church. [4] The newly created diocesan chancellors may have had authority over cathedral schools and schoolmasters within their diocese. [3]
The history of education in Scotland in its modern sense of organised and institutional learning, began in the Middle Ages, when Church choir schools and grammar schools began educating boys. By the end of the 15th century schools were also being organised for girls and universities were founded at St Andrews , Glasgow and Aberdeen .
Scotland portal; Grammar schools of Scotland. Note: the words "grammar school" do not denote any special status within the Scottish education system, although these schools do often have a prestigious and long history. Within the Scottish local government education departments they are treated just like all other high schools.
Henrietta Barnett School is a grammar school for girls with academy status.. A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented selective secondary school.
Aberdeen Grammar School, Scotland (1257) Stedelijk Gymnasium van 's-Hertogenbosch [ nl ] , The Netherlands (exact year of foundation unknown, but first mentioned in 1274) Cathedral School in Turku , Finland (1276)
Aberdeen Grammar School is a state secondary school in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is one of thirteen secondary schools run by the Aberdeen City Council educational department. [2] It is the oldest school in the city and one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, with a history spanning more than 750 years. [3]
A carving of a seventeenth-century classroom with a dominie and his ten scholars, from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. Education in early modern Scotland includes all forms of education within the modern borders of Scotland, between the end of the Middle Ages in the late fifteenth century and the beginnings of the Enlightenment in the mid-eighteenth century.
Hutchesons' Grammar School is a private, co-educational day school for pupils aged 3–18 in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded as Hutchesons' Boys' Grammar School by George Hutcheson and Thomas Hutcheson in 1641, making it the 19th oldest school in Scotland. [1] Prospective pupils must sit an entrance test and interview to gain admission.