As the new Chair of Governors, I found myself probably as excited as the new Year 7 intake, which this year rose to a new all-time high of 229 pupils, an astonishing endorsement of the demand and popularity of RPHS in the area.

The Spring term is the shortest of the year, but a good time to judge the school.

There is a great deal going on in RPHS currently, and it is sometimes hard to keep up.

The autumn term is always a very full one, as the school beds into the new academic year. This term has been no exception, but it has been a pleasure to be part of a vibrant school community, growing in strength and endeavour and confident in our future as a place where parents want to send their ch...

This has been an unusually busy spring term, and the Governors have had a lot to do. In addition to our regular programme of Full Governing Body and committee meetings, there have been two Strategic Visits to the school, one in each half-term, focussing on Modern Foreign Languages and Personal, Soci...

This has been another busy and productive term. As I write, we are approaching the school’s 80th birthday celebrations. I sometimes wonder how RPHS today would have struck our founding Headmaster, John Garrett, and that brilliant coterie of intellectual friends – W H Auden, Rex Warner, C...