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Head Heidi Jayne Boyes
Senior School

Royal High School Bath, GDST appoints new Head

We are delighted to announce that Ms Heidi-Jayne Boyes has been appointed as the new Head of Royal High School Bath, GDST and will take up her post in January 2025. 

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Girls in STEM, Head's Blog

Head's Blog: Enthusiasm for STEM at RHB

This week our Sixth Form IB students were challenged to develop their scientific skills even further through the Collaborative Science Project, an inter-disciplinary activity focusing on the implications of science through practice-based learning, teamwork and cooperation. The teams are drawn from all Group 4 subjects (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, DT, PE and Computer Science) and developed their own research titles around the theme of ‘Sustainability of the Olympics.’

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Student Success, Prep

Edie and Ellie introduce Cressida Cowell at Bath Children's Literature Festival

Ellie and Edie, Year 5 students at RHB Prep, recently had the very important and exciting job of introducing their favourite author, Cressida Cowell, to the stage at Bath Children's Literature Festival.

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Expert voices, Senior School, Library

New York Times best-selling author Megan Whalen Turner's workshop with Year 9

Students in Year 9 were treated to a visit from the New York Times best-selling author Megan Whalen Turner, who visited school to talk to students about the latest book in her award-winning series The Queen’s Thief.  

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Head's Blog: Montaigne, Essays and Academic Enrichment

Why do we ask students to write essays? At least part of the answer to that question is found in 16th century France.

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Girls in STEM, Student Success

Kay wins Atherton Award 2024

Earlier this year, Royal High School Bath students took part in the Atherton Award; a pioneering new award for girls' schools in the UK to celebrate girls who show initiative or entrepreneurial thinking in a STEM discipline. The winner this year is Kay from Year 11.

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Nursery and Prep School, Prep

Meg's big moment at Bath Children's Literature Festival

Meg, Year 3, had a very exciting and memorable weekend, introducing to the stage at Bath Forum one of the best-known figures in the children's book world, Michael Rosen. 

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Head's Blog

Head's Blog: Hadrian's Wall (and the power of sisterhood and the great outdoors)

In 122 C.E. the Emperor Hadrian, with whom I share both a name and a birthday, commanded that a wall be constructed across the stretch of Northern England where it is at its narrowest. It was still a remarkable 73 miles long, marked with regular milecastles and forts and garrison towns...

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Head's Blog: MFL Karaoke

Languages are of great importance at RHB and bring transferrable skills, confidence and enjoyment to our curriculum. All the languages taught at RHB will be represented in song at next week's MFL karaoke, and I know these will be presented with the style, panache and good humour that we have come to expect from our language learners and their teachers. 

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Head's Blog: The key to a strong community ...

The key to a strong community could be staring you in the face