Richard George Rogers

Baron Rogers of Riverside (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British-Italian architect noted for his modernist and constructivist designs in high-tech architecture. He was the founder at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, previously known as the Richard Rogers Partnership, until June 2020. 

Rogers was perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome, both in London, the  Senedd building ,in Cardiff, and the European Court of Human Rights building, in Strasbourg. He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal, and the 2007 Pritzker Prize.

In 2014 Baron Rogers, came back to visit the school. He said "It was the most inspiring day meeting and walking around the school with the children and talking to the teachers. "I was delighted to see how much the school had changed for the better since I had been there 75 years ago."

When recounting his schooldays last year, he told the Telegraph he had been "written off" academically and beaten for failing to memorise a poem at the age of six. He said: "Art was for sissies, and I was always bottom of the class."

Baron Rogers officially opened our new junior school, the new pre-prep department and several new classrooms.