Newport School Staff around 1907. Back left: Mr Dow - drill instructor. 3rd from left: probably Harry Willsher - school headmaster. Extreme right: A S Neill - assistant teacher. Front centre: Miss Jeffrey. A S Neill would go on to become an internationally acclaimed educationist, who firmly believed in children being allowed personal freedom. Summerhill, the ...
Newport School group from around 1907. The teacher on the left is A S Neill who would go on to become an internationally acclaimed educationist, with the school that he founded, Summerhill, now over 100 years old. He taught in Newport School from 1906 until 1908.
Kenneth Hart recalls travelling on the school bus from Wormit to Madras in the 1950s. "In my day the school bus going to Madras was run by Gordon Ogilvie from Balmerino. From my home in Newton Park (it will never be Kilmany Road to me) I could see the bus coming down the Gauldry road so ...
Lovely photo of Newport schoolboys with model boats made in class. The class was following the round-the-world single-handed voyage of either Sir Francis Chichester in 1967 or Sir Alex Rose in 1968. It was probably Sir Francis Chischester in 1967 as one of the boys remembers making the Gipsy Moth.
Newport School group Primary 1. 1969. These pupils were all born in 1963. In 2013 and in 2023, to celebrate their 50th and 60th birthdays reunions were held in the Brig o' Tay. See the reunion of 2013 and also the reunion in 2023.
Not exactly Newport or Wormit, but this is such a lovely group from Balmerino Primary School in Gauldry it would be a shame to miss it out.
Wormit School final year report for Sandy Rankine in 1934. Sandy was then aged 14 and in the 1930s this was the school leaving age unless the pupil was going on to higher education. It's pleasing to note that headmaster Murdoch Gair notes that Sandy has aptitude in Benchwork. Sandy followed his father Willie Rankine ...
Photographs from the leavers' class of 1975 at Newport School. A reunion was held in the Brig o' Tay in June 2023 to celebrate 60 years since most of the class were born! See the class in P1 and in P7.
As part of their study of Victorian times, Newport School pupils got into the spirit of things by dressing appropriately. By doing so they almost recreated the photograph taken over the road at Forgan School 100 years earlier.
Newport School group probably P2 either 1967 or 1968.
Newport School in 1978 beginning to look rather derelict after its closure following the opening of the the new school in 1977. Rather too clearly seen is the new extension on the front of the Blyth Hall which, along with other alterations, dated from 1974. The new extension provided wonderful toilet facilities but did little ...
Newport School group with teacher Miss Purdie. Probably 1958 and probably Primary 5 or 6.
A sketch of Wormit School in 1977 by local artist Thomas Halliday. The following year, the school was replaced with the new building on the hill above. Thomas Halliday was particularly noted in Newport for designing the burgh coat of arms. At the time of his death in 1998 he was Scotland's oldest working artist, ...
Gordon Cathro, Ronald Caird, Claude Taylor, Jack Oliphant, Tom Thomson, Billy Gray, Miss McDiarmid Heather Murray, Frances McMillan, Audrey Wilson, Janet Sannan(?), Aileen Patterson Elizabeth Lees, Evelyn Smith, Anne Simpson, Helen Burnett, Maureen Muir, Elspeth Waugh, Jeanette Gillespie Michael Robertson, Ronald Wright, Jimmy Gordon, David Smith, Gordon Fleming
Wormit School Group in 1964, possibly P4 or P5. Teachers are headteacher Murray Russell and Miss Wetherspoon.
This newspaper cutting reports an award given to primary teacher Miss Rose for 25 years service in 1936. She was still teaching 15 years later. She is particularly remembered for her dancing classes. Throughout her career, she taught hundreds of local children to dance, very often competing successfully at festivals and competitions.
Head Teacher Mr Russell and P1 Teacher Mrs Johnson
Photo of boys of the Fourth Standard at Newport School in 1907. Back row, left to right: John Scrymgeour; Miss Jeffrey (Class Teacher); Buchan Ritchie; Arthur Swan (Wormit boy); Mr Dow (Drill Instructor); Alex Kay; Tom Whyte: Willie Minty. Centre, left to right: Sidney Mitchell; John McLauchlan; Simon Forrest; G. Lawson; Quentin Chalmers; Eldon Law; Jack Anderson; ...
Photograph of main prize-winners at Newport School c. 1947 plus the complete list for that year. In the photograph are: Mary Melville - Sewing Prize; Edwin Robertson - Sports Champion; Patsy Garvie - Sports Champion; Myra McClure - Dux Girl; Robert Watt - Dux Boy.
Newport School group around 1907. The teacher second from the right is probably headmaster Harry Willsher. He was headmaster from 1905 until 1920, after which he became a librarian in Dundee until his retiral in 1943!
Newport School: photo taken about 1922. Back row, left to right: Mr Strath; Kay; McLaren; ?(Wormit); Duncan; Bruce; Ross. Centre, left to right: Don?; Peebles; Stewart; McLachlan. Front, left to right: Easson; Farquharson; Blair; Johnstone; Payne; Kelt; Gould.
Newport School: photo taken about 1920. Back row, left to right: Miss Jeffrey; W. Crichton; Philip; Todd; Carstairs; Ross; J. Johnstone; McLaren; Van de Rydt; Duncan. Second back row, left to right: W. Johnstone; F. Wallace; H. Spark; Gould; G. Farquharson; A. Payne; J. Stanford; Millar. Second row, left to right: J. Davidson; A. Payne; J. Crawford; H. ...
Two pictures of a rather sad-looking Newport School in 1978. The school had closed the previous year when the new school opened outside the village, and by the following year the old building was becoming rather dilapidated with many broken windows. This school had opened in 1878 so was in use for 99 years. The ...