Will I be able to get hold of essays, artwork and other class work I did at school?

Almost certainly not. By and large, a school will destroy class work done by a pupil, which does not count towards examinations, within a few years of that pupil leaving school. Normally, archives in Scotland will accession head teachers’ school log books, admission registers, and occasionally a few other types of school records, but certainly not large quantities of pupils’ class work. Sometime school magazines, where they survive, will include examples of prose, poetry and artwork.