As the text explains, a vital ingredient of the School's reputation for excellence has been a succession of first class headmistresses who have nurtured academic achievement within a culture of caring values, encouraging individual creativity and concerns for one's fellow beings. Character sketches of Heads and staff, so many of whom have played a key role in the school's development, with plenty of good anecdotes, enliven and enrich the narrative. There is plenty, too, about pupils and their individual experiences.

The text is copiously illustrated with photographs and other images, showing pupils, staff, and activities, to make and engaging visual record stretching from the opening of the twentieth century to the dawn of the twenty first.

The book is an important contribution to the history of girls' education. For anyone connected to the School, past and present, it will inform and delight.