Outstanding results for our IB 2020 cohort

We are delighted to announce that as a result of the hard work and outstanding grades of our 2020 IB cohort we have been commended as a 'Top IB School for 2020' by the Education Advisors who run the www.ib-schools.com website, which aims to provide clear information, advice and services to parents and students seeking a private education.

The award certifies that Royal High School is a 'Top 50 Global IB School' (out of over 3000 IB schools) and a 'Top 20 IB School in the UK' (out of about 130 UK based IB schools) for our 2020 results. We achieved an average point score per student of 38.6 (while the global average was 31.4).

Nick Hayward said, "The IB is one element that makes the Sixth Form of the Royal High truly special and it constantly reminds me of what learning should be about. I love the IB for a whole number of things. Its emphasis on global-mindedness combats any tendency to stuffy parochialism: as an English teacher, I value the opportunity it offers to study international works of fiction, from Kafka to Murakami to Marquez, which shed light on what it is like to live in so many countries and cultural contexts around the world. I love too the way the IB places education within a holistic framework, stressing the interconnectedness of learning, allowing students to make those exciting cross-connections between different disciplines, linking science to the arts and the arts to the humanities. The Theory of Knowledge element is just brilliant at asking all those questions which urgently need addressing in a world of fake news and technology: how do we know what we know? How can we trust what we see? The Extended Essay too gives students the chance to fine-tune skills of independent research – some of the subjects which have been chosen are wondrous in the way they represent such focused intellectual passions. Finally, I have always enjoyed the Group 4 Science Project where you can see real science taking place in front of your eyes, be it an investigation into the physics of flight or a structural analysis of the nature of eggshells. All of these things and more make the IB a very special programme of study."