Moray Firth School Moray Firth School Moray Firth School was an independent school located at Gollanfield, between Inverness and Nairn, Scotland. It was open 2002–2010 and during that period was the only independent school in the Highland council area. Plans for the new school were published in January 1998. The building was previously occupied by the Petty East School that was closed by Highland Council due to falling rolls. Moray Firth School was opened, in September 2002, by Anni Cole-Hamilton, who was also its principal. When it opened it offered classes from primary one to secondary one, with the capacity to take 80
Firth which are not termed such – Likewise, in the Northern Isles, the words "firth" and "sound" are often used arbitrarily or interchangeably. Bluemull Sound for example, is very similar to some of the firths in the Shetland Islands. Firth Firth is a word in the Scots and English languages used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland and even a strait. In the Northern Isles, it more usually refers to a smaller inlet. It is linguistically cognate to "fjord" (both from Proto-Germanic *"ferþuz") which has a more constrained sense in English. Bodies of water named "firths" tend to be more