Lomond School
| Lomond School | |
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| Address | |
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10 Stafford Street , , G84 9JX | |
| Coordinates | 56°00′32″N 4°44′13″W / 56.009°N 4.737°W |
| Information | |
| Former name | Larchfield School; Larchfield Academy; St Bride's School for Girls |
| Type | Primary & Secondary Day & Boarding School Private School |
| Motto | Latin: Prospiciamus (Let Us Look Forward) |
| Established | 1977 |
| Status | Open |
| Local authority | Argyll and Bute |
| School code | 8380139 |
| Principal | Claire Chisholm [1] |
| Gender | Co-Educational |
| Age | 3 to 18 |
| Number of students | ~350 |
| Education system | Scottish Education System International Baccalaureate |
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| Colour(s) | |
| Sports | Rugby, hockey, athletics |
| Website | www |
 Main building of Lomond School | |
| Last updated: 25 November 2022 | |
Lomond School is a private, co-educational, day and boarding school in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Lomond School is, currently, the only day and boarding school on the west coast of Scotland.[citation needed] It was formed from a merger in 1977 between Larchfield School (founded 1845 and previously called Larchfield Academy) and St Bride's School for Girls (founded 1895).[2]
Lomond School primarily teaches to the Scottish Education System, but in pupils' senior years (S5 & S6) at the school they can move into one of the International Baccalaureate programmes. The IB programmes were introduced in August 2021.[3]
It is a member school of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.[4]
The principal of the school is Claire Chisholm who took over from Johanna Urquhart,[5] in January 2024. Before Mrs Urquhart, the previous headmaster was Simon Mills.[6]
History
[edit]Lomond School was the result of a merger between Larchfield School (founded 1845 and previously called Larchfield Academy) and St Bride's School for Girls (founded 1895) in 1977.[7]
Larchfield Academy (often called Larchfield School) was a preparatory school for boys in Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh and was founded in 1858.[8] Larchfield Academy had existed in various forms and in other buildings prior to that, with the original year of foundation given as 1845. The old school building was purchased along with the newly-completed Larchfield Academy in 1858 by James S. Scott.[9]
The school originally used both the Larchfield and St Brides sites. In February 1997, the St Brides building burnt down in a fire.[10] In October 1998, a replacement building was built on the St Brides site and incorporated elements of the former building that were not destroyed by the fire. The design of the new building was completed by senior master Ian McKellar, an architect turned graphic communication teacher at Lomond, and Glasgow-based architects G D Lodge. The Larchfield site was also sold at around the same time.[11]
Notable former pupils
[edit]- John Logie Baird[12]
- Fiona Burnet, hockey player[13]
- Alexander Murray Drennan FRSE (1884-1984) Professor of Pathology[14]
- James George Frazer, Scottish social anthropologist, classicist and folklorist[15]
- Bonar Law[16]
- Dr John Edwin MacKenzie FRSE (1868-1955) chemist[17]
- Nicola Skrastin, hockey player[18]
- Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde[19]
- John Wardlaw-Milne, Conservative MP for Kidderminster.[20]
References
[edit]- ^ "Principal's Welcome". Lomond School. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ "Our History, Lomond School Website". Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "Lomond School to introduce two International Baccalaureate programmes". Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ "HMC Lomond School". HMC. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ "Principal's Welcome". Lomond School. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
- ^ "Lomond School Welcomes New Principal For 2024". Lomond School. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "Our History, Lomond School Website". Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "Larchfield School". Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ Everett, Martin, Dr (2003). A Hundred Years at St Bride's : The History of St. Bride's and Lomond Schools, with many Larchfield photographs. Helensburgh: Lomond School. p. 108. ISBN 0954507002.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Blaze at private school may have been started deliberately may have been deliberate". The Herald. Newsquest. 28 February 1997. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "With individual designs on the future". The Herald. Newsquest. 17 November 1998. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "Two Perspectives of Helensburgh An illustrated talk by Malcolm Baird for the Helensburgh Heritage Trust, April 4 2006" (PDF). Retrieved 18 March 2013.
My father attended Larchfield School ... Unfortunately it cannot be said that the school was a happy experience for him, rather the reverse.
- ^ "Fiona Burnet". Scottish Hockey. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ The Riverside Dictionary of Biography (American Heritage Dictionaries). Houghton Mifflin. March 2005. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-618-493371.
- ^ "Lomond School". Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ T. R. Bolam; A. H. Spong; F. Bell (1955). "Obituary notices: John Edwin Mackenzie, 1868–1955; William Pugh, 1897–1955; Henry Wren, 1881–1955". Journal of the Chemical Society. Royal Society of Chemistry: 3565–3568. doi:10.1039/JR9550003565.
- ^ "Nicola Skrastin (FP) receives first full International Hockey Cap". Lomond School. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
- ^ Fullarton, Donald (4 May 2010). "The 1st Baron Strathclyde". Helensburgh Heritage. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
He was born in Glasgow on February 24, 1853, and educated at Larchfield Academy — in those days an all age school — and at Glasgow University, where he graduated MA in 1872, BL in 1874, and LLB in 1878. He was made an honorary LLD by the university in 1907.
- ^ Tomes, Jason. "Milne, Sir John Sydney Wardlaw (1879–1967)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76640. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
External links
[edit]- Lomond School
- Profile on the Independent Schools Council website
- 1966 All school photo via Steve Kropper
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