Members of the RHS community have so many wonderful qualities. They’re keen, enquiring, questioning, creative, analytical – and they love to participate! 

Just before half term, we launched a competition to take the place of our usual World Book Day Book Character Fancy Dress Day (sob!) – a photo competition. The three categories were 1. Edible literary-themed treats, 2. Recreating a famous illustration from a book or a book cover 3. Designing a scene that could illustrate a moment from a book.

Mrs. Danger collated the entries (all year groups were represented from year 7 to year 13!) and compiled them into a PowerPoint of creative brilliance! And when the judges opened the PowerPoint, they were stunned! Edible models of characters, settings and significant objects; an entire literary-themed family meal; beautiful artworks; fantastic models; a family of rabbits (with a certain blue-jacketed friend) and other longsuffering pets in poses; costumed students in booked themed settings; even a certain headteacher, regally attired, in pose of desperation, appealing for a horse! A huge thank you and well done to all competitors. 

The usual dilemma presented itself: this plethora of awe-inspiring creative photographs made the task of selection extremely difficult. After a nail-biting session of “That’s so amazing!”, “But look at that! I mean…” and “Yes, but there’s also this brilliant shot”, the judges finally made their decision. A huge thank you and well done to all competitors. You will be able to view all the pictures in a gallery on the school website shortly.

The judges selected… 

Literary themed food items 

Winner: Harini Ganesan - Alice in Wonderland

Highly commended 

Suki Chen 

Matilda Clarke 

Alejandra Montiel Hernandez 

Claudia O’Neill 

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Illustrations 

Winner: Sophie Woo - They Say a Witch is Buried Here

Highly commended 

Izzy Conway 

Eilidh Cowe 

Poppy Palmer 

Lhotse Warner 

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Front covers 

Winner: Rozzy Bond 

Highly commended 

Lucy Jennings 

Haimi Shah 

Elise Scotney