ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL Pastoral
REVIEW Girls Making Their Mark
Year 13 celebrate Leaver’s Day
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Celebrating achievements of Year 13 A huge congratulations to our Year 13s who on Thursday 27th May spent their last day at Royal High School celebrating their successes and achievements in the Sixth Form over the last two years.
It was a fantastic, sunny day with plenty of laughter and joy. The morning started with a Muck Up day dinosaur invasion. The girls had dressed the school the previous evening with Jurassic Park themed decorations, complete with dinosaur footprints and ‘Keep Out’ warning signs. The next morning, dressed up in dinosaur and explorer costumes, the Year 13s surprised the other year groups as they came up through the school gates with water pistols. After a farewell assembly, the Year 13s celebrated with the whole school by parading around the grounds, banging drums. At lunch, the girls enjoyed a barbecue on the Sixth Form lawn. It was a chance to relax and chat together and enjoy an enormous slice of cake.
In the afternoon, we held our prizegiving ceremony. The girls, dressed in mortarboards and gowns, congregated in the Mem Hall with parents streaming in online. We heard some beautiful music from accomplished musicians in lower years and a wonderful poem, read out by Mr Benedict and written by the talented, Imogen, Year 13. Mrs Reynolds, the Head, spoke about the memories that every girl has made during their time at Royal High School and the friendships they will cherish. In her speech, Mrs Reynolds highlighted the peaks and troughs over the last year for the girls studying at a key moment in their academic year through lockdown. She referred to the girls as: “the most unusual year group who have spent as much time remote learning as classroom learning”. Our Year 13s have certainly had the most unique year but Mrs Reynolds’ speech asked them to take stock of the things they have learnt this year to support them going forward. Her advice was to encourage the girls to focus on their friends and the shared experience that will bond them together forever; keep perspective and reflect on the things that bring them happiness; prioritise giving to others, and finally, seize every opportunity by staying open minded and curious.
Read more about Year 13 Leaver’s Day on page 14.
SUMMER 2
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