Over the past two days some of our Fifth and Sixth Form students have enjoyed two excellent presentations on preparing for international university applications.
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As part of Engineering, Enterprise & Technology (EET), students have started a new activity to build (and eventually race) a Greenpower Education Trust F24 electric car.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Neil McCleery, as the new Chaplain for Fettes College, commencing in September 2024.
Glencorse and Arniston hosted the first Saturday night event of the Summer Term with the GLARNI Ceilidh for the 4th and 5th Form
On Saturday 20th April, our Middle School robotics team took part in the National Final for the First Lego League competition.
As our boarding students returned to School for the start of our Summer Term tomorrow, we were introduce Fidra, the Fettes College Therapet.
We celebrated Earth Day on Friday, with all of our year groups out and about on trips where they learnt more about this year's chosen topic, which was 'Land'.
Well done to the Fettes teams who took part in today's Naboj maths competition - a two hour international competition taking place across Europe. Finishing first and second place in Edinburgh, they were both placed in the top 10 of UK competitors.
Over the Easter holidays, 12 Fettes students represented a number of Scottish and club teams across a variety of sports, and over one weekend eight Fettes students were representing Scotland!
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Rebekah Dallas as the next Deputy Head of Fettes Prep with effect from September 2024.
We are delighted to welcome Ms Kirsten Wilkinson, our new Retail Manager, in the Fettes College Shop who took up her post at the start of April. Ms Wilkinson is joined this week by her new Retail Assistant, Ms Lorraine Goldsmith.
Committed to using sustainably and locally sourced produce, Fettes College Executive Chef, Vladimirs (Vlad) Kruus reflects on his first full term at Fettes College.
We are so proud of Fraser C who has been selected for the UK Team in the IOAA 24 (International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics) being held in Brazil 17-26 August 2024.
Lower Sixth Form students Ziyad A, Ben L, Geordie M and Alex P gave up the start of their Easter holidays to speak in the Durham University Schools Debating Competition (the biggest residential debating competition in the country) on 23/24 March.
Dr Ricks and Mr Davies took two physics teams, named “CanSat Chargers” and “Floor It” to a regional launch campaign, of the CANSAT 2024 UK LAUNCH, during which they were able to launch their CanSats in small rockets to test them.
In the final few weeks of term we were transported to the dark side of Victorian London for the sensationalist revenge tragedy set to challenging music that is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (School Edition).
This has been a remarkably successful term of team sport. We must never get blasé and expect to be reaching and winning national titles, however, this current trend has been repeated this term and the whole school has enjoyed this success.
The Middle School Science Challenge Inter-House Competition concluded with a very close competition between the teams from Glencorse and Kimmerghame.
Congratulations to five of our Sixth Form students for being in the top 30% of participants in the British Biology Olympiad competition and achieving a Bronze Award.
We are delighted to have received planning permission for the construction of a new Wellbeing Centre. The new Wellbeing Centre is part of our vision for Fettes, and we are thrilled to be moving forward with what will be a centre of excellence for pastoral care.