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Reference NoED/GR6S/A18
TitleRecords of Cove School (Nigg Parish, now Aberdeen City)
DescriptionED/GR6S/A18/1 Log Books (1875 - 1981)
ED/GR6S/A18/2 Admission Registers (1868 - 1981)
ED/GR6S/A18/3 Miscellaneous Records (n.d.)
Date1875 - 1981
CreatorCove School
Extent10 volumes, 1 item
​Open or Restricted AccessRestricted
Access ConditionsThe Data Protection Act may apply to these records. The records can be consulted in person or by a representative following completion of an access request form subject to conditions under the Data Protection Act (1998).
Administrative HistoryThe school was taken over by the Nigg School Board in 1875 and Kincardineshire Education Authority in 1919. It was transferred to Grampian Region Education Committee (Aberdeen Division) on 6 May 1975. The school closed in 1981.
The Head teacher and pupils transferred to the new school in Cove - Loirston School - which opened in 1981. Cove School building was then known as Loirston Annexe.

Head Teachers:-

John Scroggie unknown - 27 May 1887
Alexander MacDonald MA 30 May 1887 - 9 October 1889
Charles Reid MA 21 October 1889 - 14 December 1896
D M S Napier (interim) 21 December 1896 - 25 February 1897
Alexander James Barclay MA 1 March 1897 - 25 November 1921 (retired)
Alexander Smith (from Brackmuirhill Public School) 28 November 1921- 30 June 1948
William C Phillip MA, FSA (Scot) (from Kinneff school) 16 August 1948 - 30 March 1961
Miss Reid (interim) 17 April 1961 - 9 December 1961
William John Shand MA (left for Australia) 4 |January 1962 - 9 December 1965
Alexander Swan MA (came from Marykirk, went to Dunnottar School, Stonehaven) 20 April 1966 - 6 Oct 1967
Frederick R Shewan MA (went to Perth) 4 December 1967 - 4 January 1971
John T Gibbons 1 March 1971 - 4 July 1980 (retired)
Miss Marlyn Grant (interim) 22 August 1980 - 20 October 1980
Mrs Frances Davidson 20 October 1980 - 20 July 1981

The school closed in 1981.
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