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Exchange with QMSGSA Schools St. Margaret's is a founding member school of the Queen Margaret of Scotland Girls' Schools Association, a worldwide network, with members in Australia, New Zealand, England, Canada, Japan and Scotland. St. Margaret's students have an unique opportunity to travel and study at other QMSGSA-member schools. What is QMSGSA? The association works to promote the Queen Margaret of Scotland heritage, foster a shared identity and sense of belonging among member schools, offer an international stage and perspective, and provide opportunities for interaction, relationships and participation. Many St. Margaret's students have taken advantage of this network to visit other countries, study and learn about other cultures. All students benefit from living and learning with girls from other countries who come to Tappahannock. Who is St. Margaret?  In her position as Queen of Scotland, all Margaret's great influence was thrown into the cause of religion and piety. Among the special reforms instituted during her reign were the regulation of the Lenten fast and observance of the Easter communion. Her private life was given up to constant prayer and practices of piety. She founded several churches, including the Abbey of Dunfermline, built to enshrine her greatest treasure, a relic of the true Cross. Margaret strove to improve the standard of living in Scotland, to raise the dignity of Court ceremonial and purify and revive the religious life of the people. She had great compassion, too, on the English captives in Scotland, for at that time "no Scot so poor that he did not have his English captive." Margaret commiserated with them from the bottom of her heart, "she took care to send them speedy help, paid their ransoms and set them at liberty forthwith." Her book of the Gospels, richly adorned with jewels, which one day dropped into a river and was according to legend miraculously recovered, is now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. She foretold the day of her death, which took place at Edinburgh on November 16, 1093, her body being buried before the high altar at Dunfermline. Links Read the Story of St. Margaret given by SMS chaplain Ann Riggs Take a Virtual Sabbatical to QMSGSA schools with Head of School Margaret Broad |
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