Boarding Houses
The pupils are allocated into one of seven houses, some named after staff who participated in the development of the school. There are instances of four or even five generations of pupils having been members of the same house. The boys' houses are Reid's, Skrine's, Matheson's, Patchell's, and Goodacre's. The girls' houses are Home and Lothian. Until 1992 there was another boys' house called The Cairnies which was reopened in the summer of 2006 as a girls' form house but is now home to all fifth form girls. Skrine's has been upgraded with a brand new boarding house behind the trees on the western side of Front Avenue.
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