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''For other schools with a similar name see Scots College (disambiguation).'' The Scots College is an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Bellevue Hill, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1893 at Brighton-Le-Sands,〔 Scots has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1800 students from Kindergarten to Year 12, including 250 Boarders from Years 5 to 12.〔 Students attend Scots from all regions of the greater metropolitan area and New South Wales country regions. The college is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA),〔 the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, and is a founding member of the Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales (AAGPS). == History == The college was formed in 1893 by three men, the Reverend Dr Archibald Gilchrist, the Reverend William (''Fighting Mac'') Dill-Macky and the Reverend Arthur Aspinall. Gilchrist devised the school motto of ''"Utinam Patribus Nostris Digni Simus"'', which may be translated from Latin as "O that we may be worthy of our forefathers". The Reverend Arthur Aspinall, who became the first Principal, was minister to the Forbes Parish from 1874 to 1887. An educated man himself, with a love of learning, he saw the need to educate the sons of the pastoralists of the area. His dream was for a boarding school in Sydney to which these very isolated farming families could send their children. Ms Lillyan MacDonald of the Church Records and Historical Society (Uniting Church in Australia, NSW Synod) writes: The Presbyterian Church was not happy with the proposal to start the school. Aspinall became the guarantor, advancing the capital required, while the possibility of starting the school was still a matter of bitter contention within the Church hierarchy. Thus Scots opened as a private enterprise. Once the school was established and functioning, the Church Assembly saw no reason to continue to oppose the idea of the school. In 1906 Aspinall sold the college to the Church for seven thousand pounds and so it became part of the Presbyterian education system in New South Wales. 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「Scots College (Sydney)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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