The Royal High School in Bath welcomed a familiar 
face recently as former pupil, The Great British Bake
The 77-year-old is a former cookery editor at Housewife and Ideal Home magazines, a broadcaster and author of over 70 books.
She returned to her old school to film segments of a two-part programme titled The Mary Berry Story and made sure the school students played their part.
Mary went back to her old school which she attended in the late 1940s and early 1950s last October to film the pieces, which included her speaking to pupils and judging a cookery competition – the results of which will be aired on Tuesday 29 January and Tuesday 5 February, both at 8pm on BBC2.
Both programmes will feature Hope House, the current junior school and home to the old Bath High School which Mary attended.
They will document Mary's life, the lasting impact she has had on the world of home cooking during her fascinating career and how The Great British Bake-Off has inspired a new generation of bakers.
Mary was applauded and cheered as she arrived and seemed quite overwhelmed by the affection which she received from Royal High School children.
She spent the afternoon in senior school cooking with a group of 20 girls and then she went down to junior school to meet the Head, Mrs Davis and have a look around her old school.
It was a lovely day for everyone and the girls weren’t at all fazed by meeting one of their culinary heroines. “Mary was lovely”, agreed one of the girls, “and it’s really exciting to think she came to our school and that this where she first found her love for cooking. We couldn’t believe she was actually here, judging our baking. Mary Berry has made baking cool!”