Craigleith

Craigleith House is the new Upper Sixth Form Boarding House at Fettes College and opened its doors in September 2007 – a stunning purpose built home for our 126 final year students heralding more independence, responsibility and flexibility and thereby better equipping them for life beyond Fettes.

The new living arrangements and atmosphere are more akin to a university halls of residence with greater freedoms running hand in hand with expectations on self direction; the focus is on allowing students the freedom to take a greater degree of responsibility for organising their own lives, particularly in terms of planning their working regimes. This mirrors many of the sentiments promoted through the International Baccalaureate which the College took on last year. This programme is run alongside the traditional A level course and this choice of study has proved to be a great success in it’s first year of running with both pupils and staff enthused and inspired by the initiative.

The Upper Sixth Form House has separate wings for male and female accommodation, individual study bedrooms with en-suite facilities, a dedicated library, kitchen, a resource centre and a social centre for the Upper and Lower 6th forms to meet.

Our Upper Sixth Form House deliberately only accomodates the final year students with the Lower Sixth remaining part of the Senior Boarding Houses so that the younger pupils still have more senior members in their houses and their social development continues to be influenced by an upper age group. This also gives Lower Sixth pupils an opportunity to take on responsibility earlier as they will be the most senior age within the existing Boarding Houses.

All members of Craigleith House still retain a vital and significant link to their former Senior House and continue to represent it in the rich calendar of inter-House sport, drama, debating and music.

Resident House Staff are Mr Richard Davies and Mrs Caroline Davies, appointed specifically in 2006 as Housemaster and Housemistress respectively, they have two young daughters, Órla and Megan. They are ably assisted by Mr Charlie du Vivier and Ms Keshena Richardson, both long serving members of the Fettes staff and Mrs LIz Collister as House Matron.