Glen Urquhart School
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| Glen Urquhart School | |
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| Motto | Mean well. Speak well. Do better. |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Head of school | Gretchen Forsyth |
| Grades | Pre-K-8 |
| Enrollment | 209 |
| Campus size | 23 acres |
| Team name | Boars |
| Website | https://www.gus.org |
| (Final line of motto changed from "well" to "better" in recent years) | |
Glen Urquhart School is an independent, coeducational day school for students in grades pre-K through grade eight, located in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.
Established in 1977 as North Shore Middle School, in a local church, Glen Urquhart School (GUS) took residence on the former 23-acre Orchidvale Estate in Beverly Farms in 1982. The campus location is where Albert Burrage had raised thousands of varieties of orchids in 28 greenhouses.[1]
When the school moved to the former Orchidvale property, it adopted its present name, Glen Urquhart School. The school combines the surname of Urquhart from the Urquhart Clan in Scotland, ancestors of the founders David and Lynne Warren, and "glen," the word for a green, shady place (replacing the word "vale" in the property's former name), creating the name Glen Urquhart.
The school's motto, "Mean Well. Speak Well. Do Well." is adapted from the Urquhart Clan in Scotland. "Trust and go forward" is the school's slogan and Clan Urquhart battle cry. Both phrases appear in the GUS school song, written by Georgia Bills.
Today, Glen Urquhart School, has approximately 200 students from 30 towns and cities on the North Shore of Boston. Curriculum and programming continue to be informed by a commitment to knowledge, creativity, and character.