Loretto School (EH21 7RE)
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Loretto School,
Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland, EH21 7RE.
Telephone: 0131 653 4455
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Set in 85 acres of leafy campus just outside Edinburgh, Scotland, Loretto school provides an all-round education for just over 500 boys and girls - boarders, flexi-boarders and day pupils - aged 3-18. Loretto is 30 minutes by car from Edinburgh international airport and runs daily minibuses from East Lothian and the Borders.
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Loretto (which is Scotland's oldest boarding school) became known throughout Britain during the formative and brilliant headmastership of Dr Hely Hutchinson Almond (1862-1903). His strong belief in the development of the individual in the round—in mind, body and spirit—and in the value of "a community living according to the dictates of reason" can still be seen today.
Although Loretto has grown substantially from the 136 pupils under Almond's care a hundred years ago, the same desire for the headmaster to know each individual pupil remains. The value placed on communal activities, such as the daily school gathering (the Headmaster's 'Double') and on communal singing, remains high. Today's Lorettonians benefit from Dr Almond's dislike of constrictive dress (through the absence of a tie for daily dress) and from his enjoyment of the red jacket.
In 1981 girls joined the Sixth form and in 1995 the Third form, so making the school fully co-educational in 1997.
Loretto has different house they are called School house (for day boys), Seton house (for 3rd to 5th form border boys), Holm house (for 3rd to fifth form girls), Balcarres (for 6th form girls), Pinkie and Hope house (lower sixth and upper sixth boys)
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Loretto School listing on Independentschools.com
