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Robert Gordon's College is a private co-educational day school in the heart of Aberdeen, Scotland. The school motto translates as ‘Now Is The Time For All Of Your Masterly Skill’. The school caters for pupils from Nursery through to S6. ==History== It 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 did not return until 1937 with the establishment of Sillerton House. In 1989 RGC became a co-educational school. The Pelican: The original crest of Robert Gordon's Hospital showed three boars’ heads, the arms of the Pitlurg branch of the Gordon family. Above stands a pelican plucking her breast to feed her young. This crest was used on the Governors’ seal and appears on the memorial to Robert Gordon in St Nicholas Kirk. The pelican was a well-known symbol of charity and was chosen to represent Robert Gordon’s gift to the next generation. In time the pelican became associated with the Hospital. It was embossed on the boys’ uniform buttons and also on the buttons of the janitor. With the coming of Robert Gordon’s College in 1881, the Governors adopted a new crest, but various images of the Pelican continued to be used on items such as blazers, sports caps and the cover of the Gordonian magazine from 1963-86. The Pelican magazine for former pupils was first published in 2005. 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 has long had a reputation as one of the strongest academic schools in Scotland, and follows the Scottish curriculum. The Head of College, Mr Simon Mills, is a member of Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Gordon's College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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