Queen Victoria School
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HM Queen Victoria School, opened in 1908, is Scotland's Ministry of Defence school for the sons and daughters of Scottish soldiers, sailors and airmen. It occupies a fine Scottish baronial style building on a campus some three miles to the north of Dunblane in rural Stirling.
Traditionally the school provided an austere but continuous education for Scottish war orphans, with a good deal of military training and sports. However since the 1970s the school has become increasingly "secular", with educational results now matching most of the nearby boarding schools.
It gradually became co-educational during the early 1990s.
A strong military ethos is still maintained by an excellent pipe band and Combined Cadet Force (CCF) section. The school has its own "stand of colours", its own cap badge, and pupils wear the Hunting Stewart tartan. The school pipe band is renowned throughout the world, and used to play at every rugby home international at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh..
[edit] See Also
Duke of York's Royal Military School
Co-educational in late 1990s not early 1990s. Started to go co-educational in 1996
[edit] External links
- Queen Victoria School homepage
- Web site of The Old Victorians Association
- Autumn 2004 Article re Mascot
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