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STOP PRESS

Congratulations to Lucy Walker, S2, who has just been nominated one of this year's Pushkin prize winners. This is a prestigious creative writing competition which attracts entrants from across Scotland. Well done Lucy!

School Aims

Our principal aim at The Royal High School is to help develop young people committed to excellence and life-long learning.

We aim to achieve this for each of our pupils by:

providing an environment where each is encouraged to participate and to achieve to his/her full potential
promoting the highest quality of teaching and learning for all
providing a caring environment where everyone is treated with respect
developing links between the school and local community
promoting loyalty and pride in the school

These aims are summarised for our pupils as follows:

Take part
Realise your potential
Have respect for yourself and others
Show pride in your school

Uniform Drive

The Royal High School is committed to a school dress code. Apart from the very important tradition in this, we wish to have pupils who are proud to be identified with their school.

We need your support in helping us to maintain this, and we are currently having a focus on uniform in school. Please continue to work with us to make this successful.

School Dress

See Parent Zone for further details.

Links

Useful educational web sites in addition to RHS related web sites.

Healthy School

Follow the progress of the Healthy School Initiative at the RHS.

School Rectors

A list of all School Rectors from 1128 to the present day.

School Captains

A list of all School Captains from 1920 to the present day.

Awards & Prizes

Dux of the School
2009 Prize winners

Higher Revision Conference

The Modern Studies Department organised a Higher revision conference which took place at the Royal High on Friday 12th March. Over 180 pupils from the neighbourhood schools attended. A number of speakers were invited including John Barrett M.P. and Margaret Smith M.S.P. and the SQA subject leader for Modern Studies, Mr Stan da Prato. Pupils were grateful for this opportunity to enhance their learning and improve their exam performance.

Question Time

Parents, pupils and staff are invited to attend an S4 Modern Studies production of the BBC's School’s Question Time. This will take place next Thursday (the 25^th March) from 7pm. The panel consists of Edinburgh West’s MSP Margaret Smith, Derek Couper MYSP, Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament, Robin Harper MSP, Greg McHugh (of BBC series ‘Gary Tank Commander’ fame), Margo McDonald MSP and our very own pupil representative, Harmandeep Shetra, from S5. The event will be chaired by the Rector, Mrs Frith.

Tickets are free of charge and will be distributed this Wednesday (16^th) and Thursday (17^th) in Miss Gilruth's classroom (room 8). Refreshments will be served following the debate where we will be taking donations for Sport Relief. If you would like to ask a starter question on the night, these must be tabled prior to the event. Questions can be emailed for consideration to . We will then contact those people whose questions have been selected.

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World Book Day Treasure Hunt Winners

Winners of the Get Caught Reading Competition for World Book Day

Members of staff have been photographed recently reading their favourite books of the moment, to mark World Book Day, and a competition was run for pupils on a central noticeboard, and clues dotted around the campus. The answers to the quiz are listed on the Library page, and the identities of some of the staff involved are revealed on their departments' homepages in the Subject Zone.

Pictured are the prizewinners Kirun (1S2), Anna (6B1) and Elan (6B2) with the Rector and the Librarian, Mrs Smith.

Royal High School Club Annual Dinner

The Royal High School Club dinner took place at the Roxburghe Hotel on the evening of Friday 5^th March. The event was very well attended by former pupils of the high school, and three former rectors!

After dinner speakers included Austin Lafferty (lawyer and broadcaster), Dr John Halliday) (Rector of the High School of Dundee), Mr Martin Bryden (President of the RHS Club), Mrs Louise Stevenson (President elect), and Mrs Jane Frith (Rector). the school was represented by Captain Dylan Lynch, Vice Captain Blair Cowan and Nation Captain Hajra Rahim.

The company was superbly entertained by the RHS Fiddle Band. It was a memorable evening enjoyed by all. The date for next year's event will be published soon.

Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland

We were delighted to welcome members of the Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland into The Royal High School on Monday 1st March. The band, led by bandmaster Jeremy Ansell, rehearsed all day with RHS musicians and at the end of the day, staged a wonderful joint performance to the whole of S1. It was a real treat for a Monday afternoon with lots of audience participation. Well done to all who took part. Thank you to Mr Morley for organising and the Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland for giving their time and expertise.

Eco Group Update

Eco Group

On Saturday 27th February staff and pupils from the school's Eco group were involved in a litter pick in Davidson Mains Park. There were over 25 people involved in making a difference to our local community by picking up the rubbish left by irresponsible citizens. In continuing to make a difference to our local community and as a result of a very successful S1 Eco morning, the Eco group are planning to repeat the Eco morning with S2 on the 1st April.

A visit to the School

We were delighted to receive a surprise gift last week. Mr Phillip Harris, former pupil of The Royal High School, has recently published his memoirs, “To be A Neurosurgeon”. He presented a copy of his book to the school.

The book describes Mr Harris's days in the high school and his career as a surgeon. All proceeds from the sales of the book will be donated to recognised medical organisations, national and international.

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