Wednesday, December 5, 2007


Boroughmuir High School is a non-denominational secondary school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1904, and moved to its current site near the city centre in 1913. Its catchment area is in the south side of the city. It has the best non-private sector exam results in the whole of Edinburgh.

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Pupils are required to wear a dress code; black or white shirt, black or grey trousers or skirt black shoes and the school tie. The tie is green and black striped for the junior year and shiny green with school chrest for the seniors. The full uniform was only introduced in Summer, 2006. Dress code is sometimes called the uniform.

Boroughmuir High School Dress Code
Boroughmuir is the only school in Edinburgh with its own war memorial and so hosts a yearly Remembrance Service on Remembrance Day. In 2005, the service was broadcast during BBC Scotland coverage of the event.

War Memorial
At the start of their term at Boroughmuir, each pupil is assigned to a house, each of which is led by a member of guidance staff. The houses are named after streets surrounding the school- Montpelier, Viewforth, Hartington, Westhall Bruntsfield and Leamington. It is the guidance teacher's job to monitor their assigned house members. To this effect, students attend one hour of Personal and Social Education (PSE) with their guidance teacher a week.

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