The Regent Road campus of the post-war period featured a number of high quality art teachers, Including Nigel McIsaac, who is frequently referred to as an inspirational teacher. To celebrate this our parent FP club has added topics on FP Artists, Sculptors and Film makers to their web site. Included are features on Keith Carter, […]
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First Look Inside Scotland’s National Centre for Music
We are proud to share a first glimpse of the National Centre for Music, Scotland’s new home for music performance, education, and creativity, taking shape within the historic former Royal High School on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill. Narrated by broadcaster, presenter, and passionate advocate for Scotland’s music scene, Edith Bowman, the digital architecture film, created by […]
Edinburgh’s Best School?
The Royal High School is not named, but appears on screen in Channel 4’s long running property program “Location, Location, Location“. In Series 44 episode 3, broadcast this September, hosts Kirsty and Phil need to find a property within walking distance of one of Edinburgh’s top 6 schools. They show the family they are helping […]
School Annual Report 2025
The Edinburgh Royal High School Annual Report for 2025 is now available to view online. This is a comprehensive review of the work of the school over the last year and we commend it to you. It may be of interest to see more about who endowed the awards. There is a list for the […]
RHS Prizegiving and Annual Report 2024
Here is the 2024 Annual Report. Our thanks to the school rector, Pauline Walker, for sending it to us.
Poetry Prize Winner 2024
The London Club sponsors the school’s ‘Prize For An English Poem’ at the annual prize-giving ceremony. This Year’s Winner is Hannah McLaughlin. Her poem, ‘The Apple Tree” is published here along with winning poems from previous years. The celebration of the Prize Giving and Leavers ceremonies took place on Friday 28th June 2024 and was chaired by […]
Two new directors appointed to the RHS Preservation Trust.
Two new directors have been appointed to the Royal High School Preservation Trust: Grant Mackenzie and Kate Smith. Both have extensive experience of building restoration projects and it is good to see people with this expertise working on the Old Royal High School. Read the full article in ‘Scottish Construction Now’ from 7th Dec 2023.
Wanted, people to run the Old Royal High School renovation project
THE Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT), the charity behind the transformation of Edinburgh’s Royal High School into a National Centre for Music, is searching for a chair and trustees to help lead the project. If you are interested in the Old Royal High School renovation you may wish to apply for the positions advertised […]