Family for Life - News

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Michael Stitt, as the new Director of Development for Fettes College taking over the role from Nicola Pickavance.

During the month of May members of the Fettes Community were invited to participate in the Fettes Global Golf Challenge. 

During the Easter Holidays Helen Harrison, the Head of Fettes, and Nicola Pickavance, Director of Development, travelled to the USA. Their first stop was Washington DC, where they received a very warm welcome from OFs and past parents in the DC area, including several board members of Fettes’ US Charity, Friends of Fettes Inc, Rupert Hammond Chambers (JS-Gl 1979-1986), Brock Landry (Mo 1965-1966) and Nick Burnett (CE-Ar 1963-1968).

On Wednesday 15^th March, Climate Change expert and Old Fettesian, Martin Lees, spoke to a professional audience on Managing Systemic Challenges In A New Era of World Affairs. 

On Wednesday 15^th March fifteen Lower Sixth economics students joined systems thinking and climate change expert, Martin Lees (CE 1955-1960) for a mind expanding seminar in the Old Library. 

On Tuesday 14^th March the Third Form had a lecture from Old Fettesian and hugely experienced climate change expert Martin Lees (CE 1955-1960).

On Thursday 9^th March, Old Fettesians and their guests gathered at Tigerlily in Edinburgh to catch up and enjoy a drink or two with their Fettes friends

On Tuesday 7^th March, fifty students chose to discover more about careers with creativity, technology and entrepreneurship. 

On Tuesday 28th February, twenty of our students took the opportunity to find out more about careers with law.

Our Upper Sixth students had an informative session with OF Elliot Reeves (Ca 1997-2000), Social Media Strategist and Digital Marketing Consultant.

The Friday before half term 400 students, parents and guidance teachers gathered at Fettes for our Higher Education and Career Exploration Day.

Despite the national rail strike the London OFA Carol Service had a congregation of 200 Old Fettesians and was a truly wonderful occasion.

Nineteen OFs in Hong Kong enjoyed a festive get together kindly hosted by Jerome Barty-Taylor (Inv-Ki 2000-2005).

Informal festive drinks in the beautifully decorated Tigerlily created a wonderful setting for members of the Fettes community to get together in Edinburgh before Christmas.

St Andrew’s Day was celebrated in style by the 90 Old Fettesians who joined us for drinks and canapés at The Caledonian Club in London.

OF Regional Representative for Western Canada, Nigel Grant (Ca 1949-1952) arranged for OFs to gather in West Vancouver on the 27th of October.

Sixth Form students intending to apply to study in the US were joined live on Zoom on Tuesday 15^th October by young OFs from Princeton, Columbia, USC, Brown University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

On Monday 14^th November over a hundred students with an interest in engineering joined us at Fettes for the Sandy Gunn Aerospace Careers Programme.

On the 21st of October members of the Fettes community, including Fettes’ Director of External Relations, Debbie Atkins and OF Regional Representative for the Middle East, Luke Daly (Ca 2001-2006) gathered in Dubai.

It was a great pleasure to welcome OF Jake Wightman back to Fettes College to share highlights of his athletics journey.