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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.
By the end of the Middle Ages grammar schools could be found in all the main burghs and some small towns. Early examples including the High School of Glasgow in 1124 and the High School of Dundee in 1239. [5] There were also petty schools, more common in rural areas and providing an elementary education. [6]
Most grammar schools founded in the 18th century also taught arithmetic and English. [9] In Scotland, the burgh councils updated the curricula of their schools so that Scotland no longer has grammar schools in any of the senses discussed here, though some, such as Aberdeen Grammar School, retain the name. [10]
Early examples of grammar schools include the High School of Glasgow in 1124 and the High School of Dundee in 1239. [8] These were usually attached to cathedrals or a collegiate church. [8] The newly created diocesan chancellors may have had authority over cathedral schools and schoolmasters within their diocese. [2]
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.
Lewes Old Grammar School Lewes, East Sussex founded as Southover Grammar School (1512) Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, Cuckfield, West Sussex founded as Cuckfield Grammar School (1512) Hutton Grammar School, Lancashire (1512) Nottingham High School (1513) Pocklington School (1514) Manchester Grammar School (1515) Gillingham ...
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.
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)