Inverness High School.......

[CaleyD]

IHS is currently on fire.....hard to see how bad it is or if they have it under control but looked fairly sizeable and at the Montague Row end...possibly the assembly hall or the back part of the building.

[SMEE]

Hope its not bad. Mind you, if Milburn deserves a new school....IHS cetainly does!

[FortressICT]

Hows it looking now D? Texted someone at work, they aint heard anything about it?!

Edited October 8, 2008 by roscoe23

[CaleyD]

Fire?....it's orange and "ribbony" looking with lots of smoke coming off it.

[FortressICT]

Just got a text saying they have.

Is it still on fire?

[Tichy_Blacks_Back]

CD Firestarter....

It was all that talk about the Black brothers having attended IHS by Herr Bannerman - somebody out there obviously couldn't bare it any longer.... :thumb04:

[Guest]

Is it badly damaged?

I'm deeply concerned about the old school.

[DALNEIGHCALEY]

BNP you can rest easy, the old school will be shut tomorrow but will re-open after the October holidays.

[Scotty]

a fire in the stage area of the assembly hall according to Courier and HN websites.

[Guest]

BNP you can rest easy, the old school will be shut tomorrow but will re-open after the October holidays.

Thats great news. I've got many happy memories of being battered up & down the P.E. hall by half a dozen illiterate Clach tinks back in the day. Regularly.

They didn't appreciate my forthright views! ie "You lot are breeds."

[SMEE]

I was reading...there is just over 400 going to IHS now. Where the hell have they all gone? When i was in First year...It was a big school with near1800- 2000 pupils. I know the likes of Culloden has opened, but IHS still has the same catchment area etc

[Charles Bannerman]

I was reading...there is just over 400 going to IHS now. Where the hell have they all gone? When i was in First year...It was a big school with near1800- 2000 pupils. I know the likes of Culloden has opened, but IHS still has the same catchment area etc

If Culloden has opened since you left school, then so also may Charleston Academy(Charleston 1978, Culloden 1979) which now has a roll of approaching 1000 and which takes in a large chunk of the former IHS catchment area. Was ithe IHS really as large as 1800-2000? I seem to recollect the biggest roll I heard for the High School was around 1600 and that was possibly before the change to comprehensive when it catered for Technical and Commercial pupils from the entire Inverness area.

Certainly the IHS roll has plunged dramatically. Part of that will be demographic - in other words people have stayed in their houses but no longer have kids of school age. It's also possible that the legislation allowing pupils to attend schools outwith the catchment area in which they live may have had an effect.

[MissICT]

I was reading...there is just over 400 going to IHS now. Where the hell have they all gone? When i was in First year...It was a big school with near1800- 2000 pupils. I know the likes of Culloden has opened, but IHS still has the same catchment area etc

For the size of building that's not a lot.

Culloden academy is badly needing an extension to hold all it's pupils!

[Scotty]

If Culloden has opened since you left school, then so also may Charleston Academy(Charleston 1978, Culloden 1979) which now has a roll of approaching 1000 and which takes in a large chunk of the former IHS catchment area. Was ithe IHS really as large as 1800-2000? I seem to recollect the biggest roll I heard for the High School was around 1600 and that was possibly before the change to comprehensive when it catered for Technical and Commercial pupils from the entire Inverness area.

Certainly the IHS roll has plunged dramatically. Part of that will be demographic - in other words people have stayed in their houses but no longer have kids of school age. It's also possible that the legislation allowing pupils to attend schools outwith the catchment area in which they live may have had an effect.

From 1978 to 1984 (when I left) the school roll always seemed to be quoted in the region of 1500. They were still using all of the "huts" at that time ... to hear it is now nearer 500 is quite a surprise

[Guest]

I'm just a year behind you Scott & i thought there were about 12-1300 in the school at the time. Smee must be about 53 years old though.

[SMEE]

It was deffo more than 1200-1300 circa 82-84. Maybe am thinking of the time when Merkinch school moved into the huts while it got revamped.

[Mee]

I'm just a year behind you Scott & i thought there were about 12-1300 in the school at the time. Smee must be about 53 years old though.

You were in the same year as mee then! :thumb04:

[Guest]

It was deffo more than 1200-1300 circa 82-84. Maybe am thinking of the time when Merkinch school moved into the huts while it got revamped.

I'd forgotten about that. The Human Zoo.

[AJS]

I heard the electricals went...thats what caused the fire.

[Scotty]

It was deffo more than 1200-1300 circa 82-84. Maybe am thinking of the time when Merkinch school moved into the huts while it got revamped.

dont remember that .... was that after 84 ?

BNP could be right - lets just say that in our time it was at the low end perhaps around 1200 and at the high end as high as 1500 .... certainly nowhere near as low as it is now.

still remember having to try and get from "Teuchie's" (sp?) history class in Hut 78 (the absolute furthest away one) to McPhee's art class in the main building in about 30 seconds ... if you didnt get there in time, it was the belt for you and as "Teuchie" had a habit of rambling on or going mental at the end of periods, it was a frequent occurence for some random person in our class

[SMEE]

It was deffo more than 1200-1300 circa 82-84. Maybe am thinking of the time when Merkinch school moved into the huts while it got revamped.

dont remember that .... was that after 84 ?

BNP could be right - lets just say that in our time it was at the low end perhaps around 1200 and at the high end as high as 1500 .... certainly nowhere near as low as it is now.

still remember having to try and get from "Teuchie's" (sp?) history class in Hut 78 (the absolute furthest away one) to McPhee's art class in the main building in about 30 seconds ... if you didnt get there in time, it was the belt for you and as "Teuchie" had a habit of rambling on or going mental at the end of periods, it was a frequent occurence for some random person in our class

Merkinch Primary School moved into the IHS huts must have been 1982 or early 1983. The reason I know this was that I was in first year, and had mates a year behind me who i was delighted as i thought ad see em in school

I take it you know Scotty....that the Huts were flattened many many yrs ago and is now part of the playing fields.

Edited October 9, 2008 by SMEE

[Apollo]

I heard the electricals went...thats what caused the fire.

Nope, the janitor tried to torch the place. Saw him a few days back had to restrain myslef from going up and shaking his hand haha.

[Kieran]

i go to the high school, fantastic school

we've also recently had a break-in where about 40 windows were smashed, good times :thumb04:

[DALNEIGHCALEY]

i go to the high school, fantastic school :018:

we've also recently had a break-in where about 40 windows were smashed, good times :thumb04:

yeah Kieran good times , especially when school trips etc. will have to be cancelled to pay for the damage

[Kieran]

all the trips we get are shi*te anyway, even when there was nothing to pay for damage

i have no idea the last time our school had a trip abroad