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Queen Victoria School
Open Morning on Saturday, 20th September 2014
Wendy Bellars, Head, Queen Victoria School.
Queen Victoria School (QVS) is a co-educational
boarding school fully funded by the Ministry of
Defence to provide stability and continuity of
education for the children of UK Armed Forces
personnel who are Scottish, or who have served in
Scotland or who have been members of a Scottish
regiment.
QVS is tri-Service and most of its pupils have at least
one actively serving parent when they enter the
school. Our main intake is into the Scottish system’s
Primary 7 year; there is no exact equivalent with the
English system, but the majority of our P7 intake is
aged ten or eleven when they join us. That said, there
is a wide age range within the year groups. Many of
our pupils have come from educationally disrupted
backgrounds as they have moved from school to
school and education system to education system,
according to their families’ postings.
Pastoral care is given a very high priority along with
careers guidance and personal and social education.
Queen Victoria School aims to promote the welfare
and happiness of each individual child and develop
their self-esteem. In addition, there is a very full
programme of sporting, cultural and spiritual
development.
Queen Victoria School is a unique boarding school
which seeks to achieve the best that is possible for
its pupils, priding itself on developing them in the
widest possible sense and aiming to achieve success
academically, in sport, music, drama and many other
extra-curricular areas.
A very special and unique dimension of this school
for military families is the ceremonial side, which
preserves the very best of the School’s traditions.
Marching as part of the School on one of its six
Parade Sundays a year, and on Grand Day – the final
day of the academic year – is one of the proudest
moments of a Victorian’s life (as well as that of his
or her parents)! The Pipes, Drums and Dancers of
QVS are internationally renowned, having played at
tattoos both at home and abroad, most recently in the
Basel Christmas Tattoo 2013 and The Royal Edinburgh
Military Tattoo 2012.
Set in 45 acres of beautiful Perthshire countryside,
Queen Victoria School is easily accessible by road, rail
or air.
There is no substitute for visiting a school, meeting
its pupils and staff and picking up the atmosphere.
We are holding an Open Morning on Saturday, 20th
September 2014, to which all eligible families are
warmly invited. If you would like to know more
before travelling to Dunblane to visit us, however,
and to request a DVD, please contact our Admissions
Secretary on +44 (0) 131 310 2927. Alternatively, you
can write to: Admissions Secretary, Queen Victoria
School, Dunblane, Perthshire FK15 0JY, or visit our
website:
