Royal High School, Bath
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| Established | 1998 |
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| Type | Independent day and boarding school |
| Religion | Inter-denominational |
| Principal | Rebecca Dougall |
| Head of Sixth Form College | Andrew Melton |
| Specialism | International Baccalaureate |
| Location | Lansdown Road Bath B&NES BA1 5SZ England |
| Students | c.800 students (c.600 in Senior and c. 200 in Junior) |
| Gender | Girls (Coeducational sixth form) |
| Ages | 3–18 |
| Houses |
Grosvenor/ Du pré Lansdown/Wolstonecraft Charlcombe/ Brontë- winners of House Festival of Performing Arts 2010 Northfields/ Austen |
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| Website | www.royalhighbath.co.uk |
Coordinates: 51°23′49″N 2°21′55″W / 51.3970°N 2.3654°W
The Royal High School is an independent day and boarding school for girls in the city of Bath, Somerset, England, catering for approximately 1,000 pupils.
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[edit] Admissions
The school is located on Lansdown Hill just outside Bath city centre. It has boarding facilities catering for about 100 girls.
[edit] History
[edit] Bath High School for Girls
Bath High School for Girls was a direct grant grammar school from 1946 until 1976. King Edward's School, Bath was also a direct grant school.
[edit] Royal School
[edit] Merger
The Royal High School was formed by the merger in 1998 of Bath High School (day) and the Royal School (day and boarding).[1] As a result, it is the only member of the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) to provide boarding accommodation.[2] Now, the Junior School has Hope House as its main building, whereas the Senior School has the main school building and the Winfield centre for sixth form students.
[edit] Academic performance
It regularly comes near the top of league tables for Bath schools for GCSE and A-Level results.[3] The school also provides Modern Languages including GCSE French, which girls start to learn in Reception class. German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese are also available.
[edit] Arts
The school's music department has several choirs, an orchestra, a wind band, and a swing band which competes in regional competitions. There is also a ceilidh band which often take part in concerts outside of the school, as well playing in school concerts. Their repertoire includes a wide range of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and French folk songs. There is also a string ensemble.
The school has four art studios (two for drawing and painting, one printmaking studio and a studio for sculpture.
[edit] Sports
There are sports facilities on the Lansdown site and at the nearby Churchill fields on Lansdown as follows:
- A new Astroturf all-weather pitch
- Tennis courts
- Netball courts
- Outdoor swimming pool
- Land for athletics, football, rounders
- Indoor sport facilities for dance, judo, gymnastics
[edit] Junior School
Girls can start in the Nursery School one and a half months before they are three years old. The Junior School will take pupils in September after their fourth birthday. The Junior School has around 200 full-time pupils from Reception to Year 6, and around 20 part-time pupils in the Nursery.
The Junior school is currently situated in the Lansdown Road, very near to the Senior school. It caters for pupils from Nursery to Year 6 (age 3 to 11).
There are plans for the Junior school to move to a new location in Weston Park, called Cranwell House.[4] However, there is no set date for this to happen as yet.
The Junior school has facilities, such as multi-purpose hall with a sprung floor where the girls have lunch, which is also used for sports lessons. There is also a stage for the drama productions and other events. The ICT suite is equipped with 24 computers, an interactive white board, and a projector which is used by all girls from Reception to Year 6.
[edit] Senior School
The senior school is situated in Lansdown Road near to Bath city centre.
The main building was built in 1856-8 by James Wilson and is a Grade II listed building.[5]
Its sports facilities, which the junior school use are located here. There are tennis courts, an outdoor swimming pool and other facilities.
The boarding houses are situated in Lansdown Road. The Senior school has a medical centre.
[edit] School houses
There are four houses for Junior School and other four for the Senior School. And then four colours for every house.
For Charlcombe(Junior school) and Brontë(Senior School)
For Grosvenor(Junior School) and Du pré(Senior School)
For Lansdown(Junior School) and Wolstonecraft(Senior School)
For Northfields(Junior School) and Austen(Senior School)
[edit] Former teachers
- Litzi Gedye, SOE agent in the Second World War (taught German)
- Emma McKendrick, Headmistress since 1997 of Downe House School (taught German from 1986 and Headmistress from 1994-7)
[edit] Notable former pupils
- Angelica Mandy, actress
[edit] Royal School
- Mary Duggan, cricketer
- Sheila Gish, actress
- June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, Nuffield Professor of Child Health from 1985-92 at the British Postgraduate Medical Federation, Professor of Child Health from 1975-85 at St George's Hospital Medical School, and President from 1988-91 of the British Paediatric Association
- Myrtle Maclagan, cricketer
- Iris Morley (briefly), historian
- Edith Picton-Turbervill OBE, Labour MP from 1929-31 for The Wrekin
- Susan Strange, economist
- Charity Waymouth, biochemist
- Cecil Woodham-Smith (née Fitzgerald), historian
[edit] Bath High School
- Dawn Austwick OBE, Chief Executive since 2005 of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, daughter of Prof Kenneth Austwick
- Dr Helen Mary Geake Archaeologist
- Mary Berry (food writer)
- Mary Blathwayt, suffragette
- Marguerite Bowie, organised the evacuation of children to the USA and Canada in 1939
- Elizabeth Hallam Smith, Librarian of the House of Lords since 2006
- Joan Heal, stage actress and singer
- Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote CBE, wife of Geoffrey Howe, and Chairman from 1997-9 of the Broadcasting Standards Commission
- Dr Cicely Williams CMG, advisor in Maternal and Child Health, pioneer in the treatment of kwashiorkor, and the first Head of the maternal and child health section at the World Health Organization
[edit] References
- ^ Davidson, Max (2008-11-24). "Town vs Gown: Royal High School vs Beechen Cliff School in Bath". London: The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3511497/Town-vs-Gown-Royal-High-School-vs-Beechen-Cliff-School-in-Bath.html. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ^ "The Royal High School, Bath (GDST), Bath and North East Somerset". isbi Schools. http://www.isbi.com/isbi-viewschool/273-The_Royal_High_School,_Bath_GDST.html. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ^ "Schools in Bath and North East Somerset". BBC. 2006-02-19. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/05/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/800.stm. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ^ "Girls' schools moving to 'beautiful' Victorian house site". Bath Chronicle. Highbeam. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-16219282.html. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ^ "Royal School". Images of England. English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=446228. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
