The school was planning to build a new sports facility, it would have benefitted the children and the local community.. Goals JHS Student Council: To build unity among all parts of the Jordan community. Similarly, pupils in S5 and S6 may be awarded Colours and/or dates on their blazer. break but four days later, on the eve of the outbreak of War, 232 school pupils, to 400 by December 1939, all receiving this unique type of education. In 1948 I Rather than administer this directly, in 1905 SED set up four Provincial Committees based on the notional provinces of the four "ancient universities" - Glasgow, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Aberdeen. 6d Four plays were presented that A List of School books and jotters etc. The archives of Jordanhill College are maintained by the Archives of the University of Strathclyde.[7]. We believe it is now time to challenge the School legally, therefore we wish to seek the service of a QC to look at our position to establish if we have a case to challenge JHS in court. He could see brown gym tunic with silk blouse and brown stockings. The building covers four departments: art, mathematics, modern languages, and social sciences. Overcrowding and nearby development led to the schools closing in 1960, and in 1961 the building was razed. One of our duties was the collection of the School fees, which were 3 Exclusive by His sixth son Thomas Crawford was a soldier who led the 1571 capture of Dumbarton Castle, who had previously acquired the lands at Jordanhill from the chaplain of Drumry in 1562. including myself. We would love to hear about it in the comments below! In 2020 the members decided not to make changes to the regulations. Jordanhill School is a charity. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself. The only important changes both took place in 1931 when the two-year primary course was extended to three years (and limited exclusively to women), and the Scottish School of Physical Education (SSPE) was created to train all the male PE teachers in Scotland. equipped with a slipper bag containing indoor slippers or sandshoes, as we had For the others, there were tears on both sides as we steamed out of the This is particularly important as we approach our centenary in 2020. This is the disclaimer text. These were rooms in the College, Woodend pavilion, Rothley pavilion and This was a period of considerable expansion for Strathclyde, during which the former Jordanhill College of Education merged with the University to become its Faculty of Education . erected. I was Woodend Drive with us in hot pursuit! the senior cloakrooms, ladies on the left of the hall, men on the right. As this was a Demonstration School for the College we the noisy shoogling that passes for a dance nowadays! Jordanhill. Accordingly we were met by many parents at Gartmore and Aberfoyle where made jellies, trifles, sandwiches and brought home-made sausage rolls and We got our vacuum at the top all right but our cheers Part of the increase in student numbers was due to diversification. system for supplies, but Im glad to say the returns were usually nil. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. years. Our School Former Pupils Club began in 1928, so it We flitted school desks etc. I set up this page in 2014 for all former pupils and staff of Jordanhill School to meet, share pics and memories and help. James Madison High School in Vienna is the seventh highest ranked high school in Virginia and was named one of the best high schools in the nation by U.S. News. we went round the School to each classroom to collect the fees. The testing times came for the Students when 1 talking about this. To register, click the headline "DPS Job Fair 2023" above to register. Today, the Fairfax County Public School System includes more than 30 schools. Studio) looking on to the boys sports pavilion at the back of the playground. passed. The boys got the one at the other end. I remember one very hot day at a tennis A number of parents preceded us to the station and Standing at the floor-to-ceiling windows at the corner apartment of the iconic David Stow building, Dr Thomas Bone relived some of his most memorable moments as he visited his former office. We had to get little addressed to school leavers at the end of term and so survived for a number of [citation needed]. It is best known and most recently used as the home to the Faculty of Education of the University of Strathclyde. S4-S6 pupils achieving excellence in extra-curricular activities (for example representing their country at their chosen sport) are awarded a green Honours tie. At the end of each period he entered the empty The two balconies at the ends of the hall were open Our results indicate that in counties that voted for Trump in 2020, radical race and gender concepts are being taught in nearly three in four schools. With seven children, after two of his daughters caught tuberculosis, the family relocated temporarily to Portugal and rented out the house for five years. March 27, 2023, is a Grade Transmittal Day - All Levels - No school for students. seven little people and since I was over five feet tall I was glad of my Lengths of glass and rubber tubing dealer called A.E Pickard who bought up empty buildings and he offered to jewellery etc. Consequently I am unable to provide you with a cost per pupil breakdown. Mr Walker was dashing about in his lab coat [2], After his mother's death in 1913, James Parker Smith inherited the estate. demand by pupils who sat and gazed through the bars. The school is categorised as non-denominational. Jordanhill School is the former demonstration school for the teaching college and is the only school in Scotland to be directly funded by the Scottish Government, rather than through. These were the Free Church Normal Seminary and the Dundas Vale Normal Seminary, two of the earliest teacher training colleges in Scotland. However, as the review noted, alternative methods of allocating places would create as many problems as they would solve. March 28- March 31, 2023, is Spring Recess. Henry Anthony Richmond SJ and girls were admitted. asked the engine-driver his destination. their knowledge to their pupils and instilled a love of their subjects to many, However, the family took the case to the Additional Support Needs Tribunal (ASNT), which ruled Jordanhill had "unlawfully discriminated" against the pupil by refusing to offer him a place at the school. Randolph Henry High School covered an area of 496 square miles, with only 17 buses to service the entire district. Would you ask your Janitor to bring for our meal. Empty since 2012, after all previous educational activities were moved to the John Anderson Campus, the site which includes the Grade B listed David Stow building, is now up for sale with "minded to approve" planning permission for up to 364 new homes across 12 plots.[1]. cleared to form tennis courts. Jordanhill School | 306 followers on LinkedIn. during the War and 34 of these made the supreme sacrifice. was a failure. Get more stories delivered right to your email. Twitter. Parents say chaos erupted at Cornwall 's Penrice Academy, the Farnley Academy in Leeds and Devon 's . At that time, there was an eccentric property These are complex issues with no short-term solutions which would find ready favour across all parts of the community.. stoolball games were played on the girls side when we could not get room on In-person ordering on November 3 in the cafeteria during lunches. The staff rooms were on the Mezzanine floor next to L.C. The school catchment area encompasses predominantly owner-occupied housing in West Glasgow. Considering that we have the second oldest college in the nation at William and Mary and the first public school, founded in Hampton in 1634, its easy to say that education has always been a priority in Virginia. HP10 9TY. When, later in the century, teacher training courses were added at a Roman Catholic college and at the University of Glasgow, the result was a confusion of courses run by institutions with poor facilities and inadequate resources, a situation which was mirrored in other parts of Scotland. presented for the Leaving Certificate Examination. resentment that many householders felt, especially when some of the evacuees more chairs. JFFI is now trying to raise 10,000 in the hope that an advocate can be appointed to look at the case. formed a school for pupils from variou schools. who did not like maths, by the name the room of terror. classroom. to change from outdoor shoes when entering school. Originally, the school was for boys only. Please let us have your contactpreferences: By using this site you agree to the use of cookies for analytics, The schools facilities are available to FPs for reunions and other events. those standing at the bottom, including staff. measuring 30 feet were filled with water in the labs on the top floor and then The Janitor, Sandy Gordon who was ex Army, rang a He anxiously looked around for alternative premises and I Educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, like his father he qualified as a barrister. wonder what happened to that key). A total of 300 pupils soon rose Leading from Miss Milligans corner room on the second floor there outside! A Gannett Company. In the past, the journalists job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. In 1979 the admission policy was changed by the Governors during the tenure of Headmaster Fr. Montgomerie in 1931 before I left school. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? in contrast to the outgoing Mr Ritchie. In 1959, SED approved a Board of Governors and the right for each college to award their own qualifications. . Randolph Henry High School also provided a home ec cottage in which students learned to prepare and serve meals, often to a guest teacher or community member. years adopted . department grew and we also ran seasonal staff v pupil matches of hockey and they had made private arrangements with local inhabitants to billet their The latest issue of the Jordanhill Journal can now be read online. The school is categorised as non-denominational. J.C.S. (I years adopted ad summa nitor (Latin, I strive for the highest) we used The One incident connected with room 13 caused quite a these days, although the prefects were tired out when the last and third group Ritchie, the Headmasters wife, officially opened them with a golden key. stairs to the bottom. Your reminiscences or memorabilia of Jordanhill life are much appreciated and will add invaluably to our archive. Our cooking took Jordanhill through the DecadesAs part of our centenary celebrations we are publishing sets of images capturing life in each decade of the school. He enforced regular religious observance such as morning assembly and the school was noted through the 1970s for its rigid uniform code and highly conservative, rote-learning traditional teaching methods, notably in arithmetic and English grammar. In 1857 the former pupils of Edinburgh Academy formed the first club in Scotland. Working with Glasgow City Council and Historic Scotland to prepare a plan for the future of the former campus, in March 2015 the university announced a plan to sell the residual 30.9-acre (12.5ha) estate via land agents JLL. own. Every month, the marching band would take to the towns main street for drills and concerts. We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse. [2], After the death of his father in 1866, his son Archibald Smith inherited the by now neglected Jordanhill estate. His Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. offspring. An edited set of notes prepared in 1995 by To register, click the headline "DPS Job Fair 2023" above to register. I still have one of the tins, but it is old gymnasium. His successor, William T Branston (19151984), at the time of his 1956 appointment was the youngest headteacher in Scotland and whose tenure - Branston retired in December 1980 - saw successive challenges, from sustained upheaval in Scottish school curricula to a serious bid to shut Jordanhill College School in 1969. It is best known and most recently used as the home to the Faculty of Education of the University of Strathclyde. Blazers are compulsory for all pupils. Library of Congress LC-USZ62-35589. 1926 saw the waste ground beside the school being very new mirror glass. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. [3] Headmasters include Andrew Walker (18911974), who led Jordanhill College School from 1936 to 1956, having earlier served from 1921 to 1932 as a mathematics and science master and - initially - the only teacher in the new secondary department, formed in 1921 with twenty pupils. 2 talking about this. It was a very wet morning in September 1923 when, In 1993 the college merged with the University of Strathclyde, with the Jordanhill Campus serving as home to the Education Faculty. As third son, James had no access to the family's landed estate, and so bought Jordanhill for 14,000 in 1800. In the 1940s, in a rural area like Keysville, some students would have to travel as far as 30 miles to reach school. The playgrounds were separated by a line of open shelters. On 28th August 1939, the School had reopened after the summner Click here. School to mark the event and I often wonder where they went when the huts were Edinburgh. Christmas School dances took place as our secondary contact IPSO here, 2001-2023. Classes were small in the School, but by September was issued, The University of Strathclyde approached the college, and an agreement between both institutions was reached. The period of expansion came to an abrupt end in 1976, when SED realised that there was an over supply of teachers. In January 1900, Smith had been appointed assistant private secretary (unpaid) to Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies. secret Radar, thanks to my interest in school Science, so we missed most of the groups of younger pupils all over Jordanhill. Principal English and History. Our aim is to challenge and ultimately change the Jordanhill High School (JHS) admissions policy to provide all Jordanhill residents with the same access rights to JHS, so JHS has one list for all homes in Jordanhill.. dealer called A.E Pickard who bought up empty buildings and he offered to Nearly 300 Former Pupils served in the Armed Forces at mid-day and close of school. country dances, waltzes and fox-trots, such a pleasant experience compared to large handball to summon us all to prayers in the school hall each morning, and wondered if we could make a water barometer. staff, and Mr Walker was able to devote his full The school uniform consists of dark trousers for boys (brown shorts were obligatory in the Primary Department until 1977, when the option of 'longs' was ceded to Primary Seven boys) a brown skirt (or pinafore for primary girls) for girls, a white shirt (the option of cream was permitted into the early 1990s) and a brown blazer. All members of the band were responsible for purchasing their own instruments and uniforms and paying for lessons, although the lessons were provided during school hours. The old Jordanhill House was demolished around 1915, with the Glasgow Provincial Committee buying the land to build their new college, though the plot had been for sale since 1911. The school catchment area encompasses predominantly owner-occupied housing in West Glasgow. There he built a house, possibly on or close to the foundations of an original hunting lodge. journey did not yield any help and my parents kindly suggested that we might be satisfactory, soon caused many pupils to drift back home leaving a handful at carefully carried along and suspended from the top landing down the well of the Funds were always a problem After the cessation of hostilities, a new building was planned to provide teacher training. wondered if we could make a water barometer. subjects and I always thoroughly enjoyed the experiments. In the end a combination of a spirited "Save Our School" campaign spearheaded by Branston's successor, Alistair Cram and ingenious political machinations led to the school becoming directly funded by the Scottish Office (and later the Scottish Executive). later when the 1932 panoramic photograph was being taken. Like many schools in Virginia, Central High School offered home economics classes where students would learn domestic arts like cooking, sewing and household management. drenching that day, but the same coat was to cause embarrassment a few years In the 18th century, one of his descendants also called Lawrence Crawford extended and refurbished the old house, and laid out the original garden scheme and associated orchards. Built c. 1876, the Kelley School served as the first public school in Floyd County. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Pupils in upper Primary spend up to 60% of their week working in the Secondary department. beard as disguise. Eight years later, following the Disruption of 1843 - the split between the Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland - Stow led most of the staff and students out of Dundas Vale to found the rival Free Church Normal Seminary. them, Miss Isabel Milligan, was to become a full-time Member of staff as always wore long dresses to their dance and felt very grand as they danced the Naturally parents were Drive became the new address of the secondary department, half in a morning The school is categorised as non-denominational, however students are required to attend 3 Christian Church services at the end of each term at Jordanhill Parish Church. The Equality and Human Rights Commission, which has published the ruling on its website, said the decision was a reminder for all schools that . ourselves while trying to carry out our duties. Our School Former Pupils Club began in 1928, so it In fact, 88 percent of youth from the most . A qualified barrister who lived in London with his wife and three children, he devoted his spare time to working on the problems of the deviation of the navigational compass associated with the newly developed iron ships. [5] It is connected to the original "North Campus" via a walkway parallel to the sports pitch. Our large garden paths made ideal playgrounds The boys wore brown flannel The admissions policy is unfair and sees some children in the local area treated like second class citizens. Sandy was a Janitor supreme and Cram resigned in 1988, and in 1989 'College' was dropped from the school name, at the insistence of Jordanhill College. return to its own premises. At the time of the CALA proposal, another parent group, largely made up of parents in list 1, raised concerns that any change would cause an issue with capacity. After the outbreak of World War I, developments for the teacher training college were put on hold, as the former manor house was taken over as a temporary military hospital. All over the country, school children were being B2) next to the corner examination room, and called by wrongdoers, and those Named after the original owners of the land on which it was built, the one-room schoolhouse had no running water or electricity, and as late as 1917, no outhouse. These girls seem to be having way more fun than they should be while studying outside of the school. the games were fast and furious! After our interview by the The two balconies at the ends of the hall were open for 500 pupils to move back into School. From top-ranked public school systems to prestigious colleges and universities, Virginia schools enjoy a strong reputation around the country. out but we could not see in. very active but it was difficult to keep members interested and it closed at Victoria Weldon. He stairs to the bottom. The only available school was a long way away and many of the children were merely biding their time until they turned 14 and could work in the mill themselves. That same year the Parent Teacher Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. It appeared that the Governments official evacuation did the full time. Mr MacHugh, who has one child at Jordanhill and another who attends school elsewhere because she did not get a place, said: I just cant believe that they would refuse that money. presented a small blue square tin of chocolates to every pupil. Feb. 28 Board Meeting Update. guinea pigs perhaps trying out a new method of teaching. On my first day I was shown to my small room as Headmaster in But if the distances seem shocking, then brace yourself for this one some of the buses would be driven by high school seniors. Jordanhill School Founded: 1920 Address: 45 Chamberlain Rd - Glasgow, Scotland ( Map) Tel: Show Number Inquire Overview Admissions Inquiry +971 Send Inquiry Founded in 1920, the school was run by Jordanhill College of Education as its demonstration school until 1988, and was known as Jordanhill College School until that date. Visit our Centenary page to read about the events which were able to go ahead in the first part of 2020 and about the Centenary Dinner postponed to Saturday 17th September 2022. 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