| 词条 | Robert Gordon's College |
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| name = Robert Gordon's College | image = rgc logo.jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = | motto = Omni nunc arte magistra which translates to 'Now Is The Time For All Of Your Masterly Skill" | established = 1750 | closed = | type = Independent day school | religion = | president = | head_label = Head of College | head = Simon Mills | r_head_label = | r_head = | principal_label = Head of Senior School | principal = Mike Elder | principal_label2 = Head of Junior School | principal2 = Sarah Webb | chair_label = Chairman of the Governors | chair = James Hutchison | founder = Robert Gordon (philanthropist) | specialist = | address = Schoolhill | city = Aberdeen | county = | country = Scotland | postcode = AB10 1FE | local_authority = Aberdeen City | dfeno = | urn = | ofsted = | staff = 350 | enrolment = 1600~ | gender = Coeducational | lower_age = 3 | upper_age = 18 | houses = Blackfriars, Collyhill, Sillerton and Straloch | colours = Navy and Gold | publication = The Gordonian | free_label_1 = Former pupils | free_1 = Gordonians | free_label_2 = | free_2 = | free_label_3 = | free_3 = | website = http://www.rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk }} Robert Gordon's College is a private co-educational day school in the heart of Aberdeen, Scotland. The school caters for pupils from Nursery through to S6. HistoryIt originally opened in 1750 as the result of a bequest by Robert Gordon, an Aberdeen merchant who made his fortune from trading with Baltic ports, and was known at foundation as Robert Gordon's Hospital. This was 19 years after Gordon had died and left his estate in a 'Deed of Mortification' to fund the foundation of the Hospital. The fine William Adam-designed building was in fact completed in 1732, but lay empty until 1745 until Gordon's foundation had sufficient funds to complete the interior. During the Jacobite rising, in 1746 the buildings were commandeered by Hanoverian troops and named Fort Cumberland. Gordon's aim was to give the poor boys of Aberdeen a firm education, or as he put it to "found a Hospital for the Maintenance, Aliment, Entertainment and Education of young boys from the city whose parents were poor and destitute". At this point all pupils at the school were boarders, but in 1881, the Hospital became a day school known as Robert Gordon's College. In 1903, the vocational education component of the college was designated a Central Institution (which was renamed as Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology in 1965 and became the Robert Gordon University in 1992). Boarding returned in 1937 with the establishment of Sillerton House. In 1989 RGC became a co-educational school.In 2009 the school officially opened the new junior school and six years later the Wood centre for science and technology opened along side the Craig centre for performing arts by HRH Princess Anne.[1] The modern school is divided into a Nursery, Junior School and Senior School, and caters for boys and girls from 3 to 18 years. Robert Gordon's College follows the Scottish curriculum. The Head of College, Simon Mills, is a member of Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Arms and mottoThe coat of arms shows the boar of the Gordon family, and a fort or keep on a red background. The latter is perhaps an allusion to the very similar coat of arms of the city of Hamburg, a founding member of the Hanseatic league of Baltic trading cities. The Latin motto of the college, 'Omni nunc arte magistra' translates to 'Now is the time for all your masterly skill'; it is more commonly presented as 'Be The Best That You Can Be'. House systemThe school operates four houses, to one of which each student is allocated upon entering the school. The houses compete in various activities throughout the year and gain points which contribute to the annual John Reid Trophy award. The four houses are:
Notable former pupils{{see also|Category:People educated at Robert Gordon's College}}Former pupils include:
==References== 1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk/index.php?id=163 |title=History of RGC |publisher=Rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk |date= |accessdate=2013-10-12 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728024328/http://www.rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk/index.php?id=163 |archivedate=28 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }} 2. ^Webster, J. (2005) The Auld Hoose - The Story of Robert Gordon's College. {{ISBN|1-84502-051-0}} 3. ^‘NIVEN, William Dickie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 30 March 2014 4. ^Nicol Stephen's MSP site 5. ^http://www.scotsman.com/business/management/celebrity-toppling-alastair-storey-sees-catering-trade-as-table-laden-with-opportunity-1-2705414 6. ^{{cite book |last=Marshall |first=John |authorlink=John Marshall (railway historian) |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers |year=1978 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=0-7153-7489-3 |page=214 }} 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk/index.php?id=282 |title='97-'98 Class List |publisher=Rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk |date= |accessdate=2013-10-12 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728024126/http://www.rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk/index.php?id=282 |archivedate=28 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }} 8. ^Councillor's Biography - John West 9. ^{{cite news|author=Kirsty Scott |url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/scotland/story/0,,2101086,00.html |title=Guardian Unlimited - Fresh-faced challenge |publisher=Politics.guardian.co.uk |date= 2007-06-13|accessdate=2013-10-12 |location=London}} 10. ^Reference to J. Michael Kosterlitz as a former RGC pupil External links
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