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encouraged all staff, students and event guests to sign too. Knowing that not everybody


would be able to travel to visit the school, we made sure we could offer plenty of ways for people to engage with the anniversary remotely. We created a virtual visitors’ book so that people could send us their messages. We also built a virtual, interactive timeline on our website, allowing visitors to scroll backwards and forwards through our 600 years of history. Plus we launched a digital archive enabling alumni to explore photos, magazines and programmes at their leisure, and set up an alumni platform (RLS Connect) so that alumni could reconnect with each other.


Successes The variety of the calendar and the sequencing of events and initiatives throughout the year has worked well. We deliberately launched our


book about the school’s history at the end of 2022, to create the context for the anniversary and build excitement for the year ahead. The rhythm and fl ow of events during the year has also kept momentum going. We had a formal launch at the


start of the year. We then ran events every month, leading towards a full day of excitement for the whole school and town on our Founders’ Day in June, when we persuaded the Red Arrows to do a fl ypast above the site. This was followed by further monthly events through to a formal close to the year in December. The events themselves have been


really successful. The only exception was one reunion date in May, which simply didn’t get the take-up seen by other events for reasons we haven’t quite been able to fathom! In response, we simply reviewed the calendar and focused our efforts on the other reunion dates, which were


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