News from Hutchesons’

This is the main news section for Hutchesons’ Grammar School.

History news stories:

  • Henry_wuga__2__miniS3 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
  • 100_3764_miniHistory 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
  • Lewis_lyons_2010_satnam_virdee_miniThe 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
  • Paper_clips_linda_hooper_002_miniRemembering 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_miniRosa 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
  • Res27440b1cbf294f61aca2be269995be69_miniLewis 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
  • Res8d4246ddb35a4362b10b76672474f7fd_miniCalum 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
  • Res5d43d6acf5494d5abddc1382489cc0cc_miniGreat Debater
    Calum Macdonald [S6] has won the Scottish round of the Historical Association's Great Debate 2008.
    21 November 2007
  • Res0ad5b1c1ece742e39faf7611bb67cb41_miniWitness 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