With a super runner up position in last week’s UK Schools’ Cup, Merchiston has jumped up into 2nd place in the 2017/18 UK schools’ ranking list. With last year’s 7th [...]

Merchiston had a very successful day at Bang Goes The Borders Science Festival. Paul Nicholls, Head of Science, took two senior students, Brian (U6) and Ben (L6), who set up [...]

First of all, I hope that all readers of Headmaster’s Headlines who are associated with Merchiston have enjoyed some time-out over the Weekend Leave! Certainly, I enjoyed ploughing up and [...]

St Andrew’s College, New Zealand, has a strong Scottish flavour and grants two lucky pupils every year the opportunity to visit many Scottish schools which have a stong tradition of [...]

Captains of Sport Introducing our Captains of Sport: Rory McCann, Director of Sport, comments: “We are embarking on another exciting year for Merchiston sport.  It is great to see our [...]

Dr Tim Lawson, Editor of the Colinton Magazine and Examinations Officer at Merchiston, has published a piece about the School grounds at Merchiston. View our ‘Grounds’ Flickr gallery here. “One [...]

Top of the ISGA Ranking Leader Board The Golf Academy at Merchiston has enjoyed a great triumph over the past week. The Radley Putter, a competition for Junior players, was [...]

Tatler has announced the winners of its annual School Awards and we are delighted with our accolade. This is the second time Andrew Hunter, Headmaster, has been given this award, [...]

Tuesday 19 September marked the beginning of the School’s exciting lunchtime music concert series, with Brian Davidson, one of our piano teachers, performing a programme of original compositions, as well [...]