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25/05/2012
We were very sorry to hear that the Reverend Allan Macpherson (Chaplain 1994 - 2003) passed away on Monday 21 May at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. Allan’s family would be very pleased to welcome his many friends to join them in a celebration of his life at a Service at Greyfriar’s Tolbooth and Highland Kirk, Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, EH1 2QA on Tuesday 29 May at 2pm, followed by a reception in the Memorial Hall at Merchiston Castle School at 4pm. Please do let us know if you intend to be with us.

First, I would like to mention that it has done absolute wonders for the School to have been blessed with such superb weather! Yes, the inclement weather since the beginning of term will have helped the boys in our Fifth Form, Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth settle down to revision, but I am also a great believer in boys having fun and playing sport. Last week was an action packed week at Merchiston, and it was wonderful to host (for the 15th consecutive year) our ‘Primary Schools’ Evening of Music’. This was a very happy, collaborative occasion, on which each participating school presented a programme of fifteen minutes before coming together for a massed choral item!