Clacken and the Slate. Story of The Edinburgh Academy 1824-1974

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Magnús Sigursteinsson was born in Reykjavík on 12 October 1929, but grew up in Edinburgh, where his father, Sigursteinn Magnússon, was the Icelandic consul. In Scotland his family adopted a British naming convention, and from childhood Magnus used his father's patronymic as a surname.

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One of the saddest aspects of this story is that later on, in the academy senior school, abuse and bullying were rife, not least between the children who had suffered together when younger. “We were made feral. We learned that from those teachers,” one survivor said. McLean told the inquiry of “multiple incidents of penetrative rape and forced masturbation”.

This man waited in the cold for over 2 hrs with temperature 3C and [Glasgow City Council] refused to accommodate this man. However, Homeless Project Scotland says they are planning to escalate the matter as an official complaint with care watchdogs and the council itself.After 50 years of silence, the survivors and their stories were now breaking news in the UK: the coverage brought dozens more former pupils forward. Led by George Scott, Campbell and others, about 40 of these men formed a WhatsApp group and started a campaign in Britain and South Africa to galvanise the Scottish prosecutors. In 1968, armed with a new diploma, Wares started work as a maths teacher and rugby coach at the junior school at Edinburgh Academy – then an all-boys private establishment, founded in 1824. Former pupils are known as “Academicals” – Robert Louis Stevenson is on the list of famous alumni. Proud and traditional, the school is still famous for educating the city’s professional class, not least those who would become the country’s senior lawyers and judges. In fact you had a box cutter in your hand and you cut his cheek very deeply and caused a very serious wound.

Magnusson lived with his family in John Street, Portobello, an eastern suburb of Edinburgh. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, where he was in the school's marching brass band, and at Jesus College, Oxford. [2] Career [ edit ] Journalism and television [ edit ] He wasn't looking for much - just for somewhere he could be safe and warm for a few hours until he could board the train to London. It does not diminish the right to free speech. The case affirms the position that has always existed that when exercising our right to free speech, we must be responsible and it must be accurate and fair.” What he found, in complaint in the lawsuit, caused him to suffer “tremendous embarrassment and humiliation”.I have been logging allegations of sexual abuse of children and its coverup at residential schools and institutions, state and private, since 2014, when I first wrote for the Observer about the same at my own schools. There were many Wares and Dawsons: on my spreadsheet, I have 1,150 serious allegations, naming nearly 400 schools and 350 staff. From these accounts, I know that what happened at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes was far from unusual. Roger Crofts; David Breeze. "Magnus Magnusson" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh . Retrieved 19 October 2015. Wares’ modus operandi, it would seem, was sneakier – it had evolved from what was reported in South Africa in 1966. Campbell says he saw the teacher pull down a child’s pants in the changing room, and start masturbating him. Most of Wares’ alleged assaults took place in the classroom. A pupil would be summoned to the desk to have his work inspected, and hold it in front of Wares with both hands while the teacher’s hands went into his shorts. The rest of the class watched, waited their turn and remembered. Our volunteer case workers provided a foil blanket, food, hot drink while our dedicated volunteers helped him to exercise his rights to a safe warm place. He then walked to a nearby kebab shop before calling for an ambulance and was treated for his wound.

Fettes college was examined by the Scottish child abuse inquiry in 2021. Photograph: Allan Wright/Alamy Sentencing, Judge Ian Pringle QC called the wound a 'horrific' injury and said: "You brushed the side of his face, or that is what seemed to him. This concluded the clinical team could not have predicted or prevented the violent incident in 2017 and that the care provided was proactive and responsive.Celtic to be served with court summons in multi-million pound 'class action' by sex abuse survivors In the 18th and 19th centuries, hails referred to the goals in several varieties of hand- and football. Games such as hail-ba' and hand' an' hail were played in various parts of Scotland. The latter was a game common in Dumfriesshire. According to Jamieson, "two hails, or dules, are fixed on, at about the distance of four hundred yards from each other, or as much farther as the players can agree on. The two parties then place themselves in the middle between the two goals, or dules, and one of the persons, taking a soft elastic ball about the size of a man's fist, tosses it into the air and as it falls strikes it with his palm towards his antagonists. The object of the game is for either party to drive the ball beyond the goal which lies before them, while their opponents do all in their power to prevent this." Where an admission to hospital is considered appropriate a risk assessment is always carried out and people who are clinically assessed as high risk to themselves or others are prioritised. By late 1967, Wares was an inpatient at the Royal Edinburgh psychiatric hospital, where he was treated by a former professor at the University of Cape Town, Professor Henry Walton. He was presumably pronounced cured, because after three months he was discharged. He went straight to start a teacher-training course at Edinburgh’s Moray House college. When it comes to accommodation in Scotland, there's a fantastic choice of amazing stays from luxury hotels to glamping getaways.