and grounds The High School of Dundee is situated in seven buildings in the city centre: the Main Building (traditionally the Boys School) the Margaret Harris Building (the Girls School) the Robert Fergusson Building, housing the English department Trinity Meadowside, a former church, designed by David Bryce, housing the hall, library, drama department and recording studio Bonar House Baxter Hall the Lodge There are also two main playing grounds, Dalnacraig and Mayfield, approximately one mile from the school, at which sports such as hockey, tennis, rugby, football, cricket, and athletics are played. Mayfield has undergone massive investment in recent years with new sports facilities, and is the home of Dundee High School Former Pupils’ RFC; it is also let out to other groups. The school holds an annual sports day at the Mayfield playing grounds in June where the four school houses compete against each other throughout the day. Houses The school has four houses to which pupils are assigned randomly, or depending on their family history in the school. The four houses are Airlie, Aystree (after the house of a Benefactor of the School), Lindores (originally "School"), and Wallace (after William Wallace). Junior School get the opportunity to gain house points during class and the senior school gain house-points through competitions such as inter-house debating, and through the results collected from sports day. At the end of every session, the points are added together, and the house plate is awarded to the winning house. Staff Bullying In 2019 the school was required to pay £60,000 as a result of unfairly dismissing the principal teacher of religious, moral and philosophical studies. The court found that the rector's treatment of the teacher was “extremely threatening and unpleasant”. Judge Ian McFatridge said that evidence from Dr Halliday and Lise Hudson, his deputy and named successor, was not credible or reliable: the school did not contest the ruling. Notable alumni References Further reading The Dundee High School Magazine 1934 The High School of Dundee Prospectus 1964 Durkan, J., “Education: The Laying of Fresh Foundations”, in J. MacQueen (ed.), Humanism in Renaissance Scotland (Edinburgh, 1990). Durkan, J., “The cultural background in sixteenth-century Scotland, in David McRoberts (ed.) Essays on the Scottish Reformation, (Glasgow, 1962), pp. 274–331. Maxwell, A., Old Dundee prior to the Reformation, (Dundee, 1891). Stephenson, J.M.W., Education in the Burgh of Dundee in the Eighteenth Century, (Edinburgh, 1973). External links School Website