News from Hutchesons’
This is the main news section for Hutchesons’ Grammar School.
History news stories:
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
The Annual Lewis Lyons Lecture 2010
Fifth-year pupil Natasha Britton reports on the 10th annual Lewis Lyons History Lecture, delivered by Professor Satnam Virdee.
29 April 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
Lewis Lyons Memorial Lecture: Professor Matthew Strickland
S5 and S6 History pupils were treated to an insightful exploration of moral and historical issues on in the Lewis Lyons Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Matthew Strickland of Glasgow University.
11 April 2008
Calum Wins National Debate
Sixth-year pupil Calum Macdonald beat out competition from across the UK to win the national final of the Historical Association’s ‘Great Debate'.
10 March 2008
Great Debater
Calum Macdonald [S6] has won the Scottish round of the Historical Association's Great Debate 2008.
21 November 2007
Witness to War
June was a busy month for Bob Kutner. Between a holiday and one of his retirement occupations as a voluntary social worker, he visited the Hutchesons' History Department four times in one week to share his wartime adventures with S2 pupils.
12 September 2007