Photo by Peter McIntosh.
More than 700 pupils, staff and Dunedin and Wanganui iwi assembled in Herron Hall to welcome the first female principal to Bayfield since the school was established in 1961.
Mrs Forbes was previously deputy principal at Wanganui High School, where she worked for 14 years.
She has a strong association with Dunedin. After studying at the University of Otago and Dunedin College of Education, she started her teaching career at The Taieri High School (now Taieri College).
Mrs Forbes is only the fourth principal in the school's 50-year history, replacing Denis Slowley, who resigned last April after 12 years at the school.
