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TUTORING: “When I arrived at the school [in 1998], I insisted that every academic member of staff on the staff roll helped in the boarding houses as non-residential tutors to try and ensure that learning and teaching were fully integrated with pastoral care and student support. We were able to achieve this. However, it did meet some resistance from staff at the beginning. It worked in practice as staff working in Merchiston, as a boarding school, understood the whole day and evening and saw the students “in the round” and vice-versa.”—Andrew Hunter, SCAI Witness Statement (17 November 2020)

“As I have already indicated, each housemaster was responsible for a team of tutors and we allocated these tutors according to the strengths of the members of staff and the needs of the pupils. We tried to ensure that every tutor team in each house was balanced between male and female and different abilities and talents. Every member of the academic staff helped in a house every week, tutoring and providing cover so that the housemaster could have some time off. Every tutor was expected to contribute to a Sunday activity once or twice per term.”—Andrew Hunter, SCAI Witness Statement (17 November 2020)