Welcome to Fortrose Academy's website

I am very happy indeed to introduce the Fortrose Academy website which I hope you will find helpful and informative.

There has been a school at Chanonry, associated with the ecclesiastical establishment at Rosemarkie, and later in Fortrose, since the early medieval period but the Academy itself dates from 1791 and the school celebrated its bicentenary in June 1991. The earliest part of the present school was erected in 1891 but little now remains of the original part of the present building apart from the clock tower. Extensions were built in 1966 and 1973, with August 2002 seeing our move to a very significant new extension with a library and theatre. Over the years Fortrose Academy has mirrored the life of the community it serves and it has produced many pupils who have made valuable contributions to society in general.

This website, however, is not just concerned with the past. It is also concerned with the responsibilities we have for our present pupils and how we equip them to cope with the needs of a rapidly changing world. At Fortrose Academy we value highly the concept of excellence and, like all the other great “Academies” in our history, we also emphasise the development of the whole person through a well-rounded education. That form of education will not come solely from the school. It will come from a partnership of school, pupils, parents and the community at large. Each of us will learn from the others.

It is within that philosophical framework that we enrol pupils at Fortrose Academy and we can, I believe, look forward to the future with confidence.

Yours sincerely

J D Simpson

(Rector)