News & Events

Situated in the heart of Edinburgh, Fettes provides our students with quick access to the great Scottish outdoors. Taking full advantage of the Scottish landscape, our Outdoor Pursuits students enjoyed an afternoon on Loch Tay.

It's been a fabulous term of sports with a plethora of highlights. The final sporting event of the term, our House Cross Country run, involved just about every Prep pupil, each aiming to win a point for their House, and despite some inter-house rivalry, encouraging each other every step of the way.

The M and P Forms’ Christmas Plays mark the beginning of the last week of our Autumn Term and are always an absolute highlight, performed by our youngest pupils in the beautiful, and very festively decorated, College Chapel.

There is always plenty going on in our fabulous art department and to illustrate this here are a couple of particularly colourful projects to end this term, with 2nd Forms' Pop Art t shirts and T Forms' alebrijes.

This is the second year that our very talented Chamber Choir have been invited to perform at the Combat Stress and ABF Soldiers Charity Christmas Carol Service. The service took place at Canongate Kirk, where our choir sang beautifully and did us proud.

The Prep School Autumn Concert is just one of the highlights of our traditional end of term events. It's a showcase for the musical talent in the Prep School and involves many of our pupils performing in our three separate choirs and for individual ensembles.

On Advent Sunday, our Scottish Islands Peaks Race Team departed for a training sessions in the Pentland Hills, continuing their training ahead of the adventure in May 2020.

Honeypot Ceramics is a favourite place to visit for the girls of Iona House. We all enjoy the opportunity to be creative and produce something that is unique to each of us! This time we tried our hands at soap and bath bomb making.

We have been taking our 2nd Form away on a Leadership Weekend for many years now. We know what a valuable experience it is for them to spend time with each other and learn about leadership through a combination of team building exercises and challenges.

This has been a super week of sport with our Under 12 girls hockey team taking part in the IAPS hockey finals and Under 13 representation for the Saltires in both rugby and hockey. We have hosted visiting rugby teams from Aysgarth Prep School and taken part in our regular Wednesday fixtures.