News from Hutchesons’
This is the main news section for Hutchesons’ Grammar School.
History news stories:
Primary classes find out how we used to live
A visit to Summerlee Museum reveals the rich history of everyday life in Scotland for P2 pupils.
10 April 2012
It's all in the biology!
An S1 pupil delighted her biology classmates this week by revealing an unusual family connection. She is related to the Nobel Prize winning Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming.
29 March 2012
John Buchan Memorial Lecture: Dr Robert Maslen
S6 pupils were treated to a literary feast on Friday 2nd March when Dr Robert Maslen, from the University of Glasgow, gave the annual John Buchan Memorial lecture on 'A Fantastic History of the 20th Century'.
28 March 2012
Founders' Day 2012
The Hutchesons' Grammar School community gathered in Glasgow Cathedral on Wednesday the 14th March to commemorate the founding of the School by the brothers George and Thomas Hutcheson in 1641.
22 March 2012
A taste of Roman life for P3
P3K get a taste of life in the Roman infantry: "The soldiers of the Xth legion spent a gruelling afternoon engaged in drill and marching whilst carrying their very heavy packs." See their video here.
22 March 2012
Lewis Lyons Memorial Lecture 2012
On Friday 24th February Dr Lydia Plath delivered the Lewis Lyons Memorial Lecture on the topic of white supremacy in the United States of America.
15 March 2012
Sally Magnusson shares the merits of a surprising resource
As part of our Talking Points lecture series, broadcaster Sally Magnusson uncovers the hidden history and potential of a much maligned substance.
16 February 2012
Primary Six turn back the clock at Scotland Street
Hutchesons' pupils travelled back in time at Scotland Street School Museum to experience classroom life in 1887.
29 November 2011
Lest we forget
Hutchesons’ marked the Armistice today with a moving Remembrance Day Service for S4 - S6 year pupils and esteemed guests.
11 November 2011
S3 Pupils hear an extraordinary tale of survival
S3 pupils listened with concentration and awe as they learned of Marion Camrass' journey from privileged childhood in a comfortable middle-class Polish household to exile in Siberia and then escape to an orphanage in Bukhara in Uzbekistan.
20 May 2011
The Lewis Lyons Memorial Lecture: Professor Geoffrey Swain
Professor Geoffrey Swain, Alec Nove Professor of Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Glasgow, delivered this year's Lewis Lyons Memorial Lecture.
8 March 2011
S3 History Pupils meet Wartime Refugees
All S3 historians had the good fortune to spend an hour on 10 June listening to the moving story of Henry Wuga and his wife Ingrid.
22 June 2010
History at Hutchesons' - in Germany
History teaching staff and 39 S3 pupils - all currently studying the history of Nazi Germany - enjoyed a very busy visit to Bavaria in May
8 June 2010
Remembering the Holocaust through Paper Clips
The day after Holocaust Memorial Day, the whole of S3 gathered to hear the story of what one small school in the USA achieved to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
28 January 2010
Rosa Sacharin and the 'Kindertransport'
S4 pupils at Hutchesons' listened with great interest when Mrs Sacharin addressed them in June, combining an explanation of the Nazis' rise to power with an account of some of her own experiences as a youngster in Berlin.
9 June 2009