Portree High School - Present School

Present School

Portree High School is a genuinely comprehensive school, serving some 680 pupils drawn from the Isle of Skye as well as Raasay and Soay. Large numbers of pupils are bussed to school, and 60 or so live in the school hostels.

After following a common course in S1 and S2 – including Gaelic/Gàidhlig as well as French or German – pupils choose a curriculum of eight Standard Grades, before progressing to study up to five Highers in S5, as well as a range of options at other levels, such as Intermediate, and Advanced Higher in S6. Gaelic Medium (GM) provision is currently available in up to eight subjects, underpinned by GM Support for Learning. Examination results are generally very impressive: in the 2001 diet, the S.5 Higher results placed the school in the top 10% in Scotland.

The school life of the pupils is enriched by a wide variety of extra-curricular opportunities – including options as diverse as shinty, hockey, football, basketball, drama, chess, juggling and rocketry. In recent surveys of our pupils, 96% of those questioned stated that they enjoyed coming to school.

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By I. G. Macdonald.
On the 11th November 1957, the Head Master, Iain M. Murray MA (Edinburgh) petitioned Sir Thomas Learney (Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Baron of Learney, Kinnairdy and Yeochrie, Doctor of Laws, Advocate, Lord Lyon King of Arms), that the name Portree High School, which he and the Education Committee of the County of Inverness had chosen, be accepted for Portree’s Secondary School..

History of PHS History of Portree High School.
Four Centuries of Schooling in Portree and District The earliest known school in Skye was the grammar school founded in 1651 at Duntulm by Sir James Mòr Macdonald. Later in the same century, the first school known to have existed in Portree was established in 1697 – one year after the Scottish Parliamentary Act of 1696, the “Act for Settling of Schools”..