David Griffiths started at The Mount School in Dalton Terrace back in January 2022.
The school, which has about 240 pupils, counts Oscar winning actress Dame Judi Dench and astrophysicist Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell, among its former pupils.
When he started at the Quaker school Mr Griffiths became their 20th principal since the all-girls' school moved to Castlegate in 1831 and the first man to lead the school since co-founder, William Tuke, retired in 1804.
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