100-years of school graffiti

Dec 10, 2016, 04:42 AM

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Wick High School is opening its doors to the public for the very last time today, as staff and pupils prepare to move to brand new facilities elsewhere. Next year's move will mark the end of more than 100-years of teaching at the site, where graffiti by three-generations of the same family has been found on the same wall. IT teacher Chris Aitken has been helping to record the school's history, which is on show from 10am until 3pm. The 33-year-old is well known for Tweeting videos of his hi-tech and interactive lessons. He told MFR News: "Graffiti has been found - well, at one point it would have been called graffiti, but now we call it history. We've found graffiti from 1917, all the way up to last year. "We've had graffiti of ex-teachers, current teachers, ex-pupils, children, grandchildren, parents. We've had three-generations of a family signing the same piece of wall." What memories do you have of going to Wick High School? The Caithness computer whizz is passionate about the place's century old history.