Dundee Academy
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| Motto |
Prestante Domino "With God As Our Guide" |
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| Established | 1239 |
| Type | Independent day school |
| Rector | Dr. John D. Halliday |
| Chairman of Directors | Adrian A.M. Stewart |
| Founders | The Abbot and Monks of Lindores Abbey |
| Location |
Euclid Crescent Dundee DD1 1HU Scotland 56°27′46″N 2°58′23″W / 56.4628°N 2.9730°WCoordinates: 56°27′46″N 2°58′23″W / 56.4628°N 2.9730°W |
| Local authority | Dundee |
| Staff | 106 teaching/53 non-teaching |
| Students | 1000 (Approx) |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 3–18 |
| Houses |
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| Colours |
Navy and gold |
| School song | Floreat Schola Taodunensis |
| Website | www.highschoolofdundee.co.uk |
Navy and gold
The High School of Dundee is an independent, co-educational, day school in Dundee, Scotland which provides nursery, primary and secondary education to just over one thousand pupils. Its foundation has been dated to 1239, and it is the only private school in Dundee.
The school's Rector is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
The School has origins in the Grammar School of Dundee founded by the abbot and monks of Lindores Abbey after they were granted a charter by Gilbert, Bishop of Brechin, in the early 1220s to "plant schools wherever they please in the burgh". Their rights were confirmed by a Papal Bull conferred by Pope Gregory IX on 14 February 1239. It is from this Bull that the School's Latin motto "Prestante Domino ", translated as "Under the Leadership of God", is taken.
Little information survives about the early grammar school: it would have taught a Latin curriculum to boys from Dundee and the surrounding area. In 1434, the teaching methods of the Master, Gilbert Knight, were challenged by John, Bishop of Brechin, who conferred Laurence Lownan as the new Master in Knight's place.
Dundee was a hotbed of the Reformation, and St Mary's Church had, according to John Knox, the first truly reformed congregation in Scotland. The school itself was the earliest reformed school in the country, having adopted the new religion in 1554 under the master, Thomas Makgibbon, with the assistance of the (by-now Protestant) Dundee Town Council. However, John, the Abbot of Lindores stepped in to take control of the school which his predecessors had founded, replacing Makgibbon nominally with the Vicar of St. Mary's, John Rolland, who was given the power to appoint substitutes; this he did, his substitutes opening schools in opposition to the Grammar School, poaching its pupils. In the ensuing furore the Town Council, which approved of Makgibbon's methods, intervened to prevent rival schools.
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