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For nearly 400 years, Hutchesons’ Grammar School has been part of the fabric of Glasgow and at the forefront of teaching and learning in Scotland. I am privileged to be the Rector here and I am proud to welcome you to our school.
Hutchesons’ focuses on ensuring our pupils Belong, can Flourish, and so will Achieve their best, wherever their talents lie. We encourage pupils to participate fully in school life, and as a result, we achieve some of the best examination results in the country each year.
We understand our pupils and we value each for their curiosity, creativity, and compassion. We work every day to provide a well-rounded education and aim to foster a genuine love of learning and a strong work ethic, ensuring all our pupils are prepared for their journey through life.
How do we achieve this? – our people. What makes Hutchesons’ a vibrant place of learning is the energy, focus, drive, dedication, and kindness of our pupils and staff. Our diverse community is one where we encourage one another to make a positive contribution within and beyond the school gates.
At Hutchesons’ Grammar School, our young people grow, thrive, and go on from here ready to take on any challenge.
I warmly invite you to visit us, meet our pupils and my colleagues, and see how your child can Belong, Flourish, and Achieve at Hutchesons’ Grammar School.
Mark Ronan
Rector and CEO
We all want the best for our children. At Hutchesons’ we excel at understanding people. We then ensure that they are truly able to achieve their potential and to flourish as we nurture, stretch, and challenge them.
We are academically selective so it is “cool to be clever” and therefore everyone works hard to succeed, and succeed they do. We keep our curriculum under review to ensure that our values-driven approach will produces bright, articulate, personable and informed youngsters.
We know that to flourish requires attention to the whole person. Small class sizes, in the senior school, allows individual attention and excellent learning. The teachers are passionate advocates of their subject and always specialists whether it be in a particular science, language or humanity.
Our House-based pastoral team is wonderful and our extra-curricular offerings are hugely diverse and hugely important to us. Whether it be sport, art, performance, philanthropy, internationalism or local community involvement we have the platform for your child to develop those added dimensions to their character.
We work closely with our Former Pupils, linking them to each other and to current pupils and parents. This network is of continual value both for the education of those still with us but also for lifelong learning.
Hutchesons’ is a warm and welcoming community. You will want first-hand evidence to allow you to choose, so don’t delay, get in touch and arrange a visit.
Our examination results continue to be excellent. Our unique curricular pathways allow bespoke twilight courses to be studied as preparation for Higher without National 5 as well as National 5 bypass. These paths allow pupils to avoid the tedious hoop jumping that can accompany these qualifications and also pave the way for a number to study six or more Highers in Fifth Year: this truly makes these talented candidates stand out.
But we know it is more than just exam grades. Our ethos is strong, and produces young people with a great work ethic, a strong moral compass and a wide range of interests and skills.
We get to know our youngsters, identify their interests and strengths and then encourage them to blossom and develop their potential. We have a huge range of opportunities outside the classroom to ensure this happens. We are particularly proud of our facilities that support our extensive extra-curricular programme.
We are in close contact with our former pupils, and are widening the number of opportunities for meetings through our Hutchie Hubs: whether by graduation year, current location or interest.
"Hutchie has been the foundation of all that I have gone on to do - and for that, I am eternally grateful."
“I can put my hand on heart and take an oath that my memories of Hutchie are all happy ones, it is an extraordinary place to learn and live…I benefitted from a really complete education, learning to be part of a family and of a community…It gave me the building blocks for the career I’ve had. It gave me confidence, enthusiasm, a work ethos, commitment and dedication.”
