Abbey Connected

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It has been a delight to welcome staff and students for the new academic year, particularly those who are new to our community. It has been wonderful to see people catching up with one another, makin...
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TAPS

TAPS Coffee Morning

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A warm welcome to all our new and returning parents to the first TAPS Coffee Morning of the academi...
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Seniors

Classics Society Social

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What better way to welcome our new Classicists than with chocolate brownies, biscuits and squas...
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Juniors

Digital Learning Update

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It has been wonderful to see pupils return with such enthusiasm and confidence for the start of...
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Seniors

Autumn Term Abbey Correspondent

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Last year a group of budding journalists met weekly to discuss how to communicate newsworthy ev...
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Seniors

Student Spotlight: Grace and Margaret

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The summer holidays were certainly not a quiet time for sisters Grace, Upper VI and M...
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Highlights

BBC Award nomination for The Abbey’s Refugee Homework Club!

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We are absolutely delighted to share that The Abbey’s Refugee Homework Club has been shortliste...
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Highlights

Susie Celebrates an outstanding set of GCSE Results

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Susie achieved a phenomenal 100% across every Maths paper, alongside securing grade 9s in all ten o...
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Highlights

2026: OUTSTANDING GCSE RESULTS AT THE ABBEY 

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Students at The Abbey are celebrating outstanding GCSE results today including a phenomenal almost ...
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Highlights

EXTRAORDINARY A LEVEL RESULTS AT THE ABBEY

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We are delighted that over half of all Abbey students scored all A* and A grades and two thirds of ...
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Highlights

Gateway Highlights

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Enjoy this year's highlights https://vimeo.com/1208128020?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
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Abbey Connected

Milestones and Meaning

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There are weeks in a school year when everything seems to happen at once. The last couple of weeks ...
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Seniors

Textiles Club

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Students attending Lower IV Textiles Club have been celebrating the completion of their reversible ...
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Highlights

Thank you for the Music with Lower III

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On Tuesday evening, Lower III gave their final musical performance at the Junior School in their Th...
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Highlights

Lower V Trip to Oxford University Open Day

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The Lower V trip to the University of Oxford open day on 1 July offered an inspiring glimpse into o...
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Seniors

Sports Scholars Update

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The Sport Scholars have had a busy and successful year, fully embracing the wide range of opportuni...
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Highlights

Success for our Final IB Cohort

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On Monday, our Sixth Form IBDP students celebrated outstanding results, securing places on a wide r...
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Highlights

Student Spotlight

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Zaya launches slushy business for charity To celebrate the 250th Anniversary of American Indepen...
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Highlights

Brigstocke Public Speaking

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Another excellent Baroness Brigstocke Memorial Public Speaking Competition took place on Wednesday ...
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Highlights

Silent Disco!

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In After School Care, we decided to finish off the school year with a bang by holding the first eve...
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Highlights

Classics Society trip to see Thespians

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On 1st July, the Senior Classics department took a trip to Guildford to see Thespians the Musical p...
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The Abbey

Sustainability at The Abbey

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The Abbey continues to make progress in enabling student and staff collaboration on environmental a...
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Highlights

Medical Physics Trip

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On Wednesday we were able to visit the Royal Berkshire Hospital, more specifically the Medical Phys...
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Highlights

Week 10 of Summer Gateway Highlights 2026

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Highlights

Student Spotlight

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Football Victory!Rosa captained the U11s Thatcham Tornadoes Lionesses to a cup final victory at the...
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Highlights

Letters of Isolation

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Letters of Isolation Club run by two Sixth Form Students - Grace W and Aurelia, Lower VI. This year...
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Seniors

The Summer Reading Challenge

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Hello,I am Rewa and I won The Jane Austen Summer Reading Challenge last year, so this year Miss Wen...
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Seniors

The Maths Round up

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Café Maths is always a highlight for the Maths department every term and this time proved to be ano...
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Seniors

Interludes Recital

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Ellie and Emily opened the Recital with a duet of “A Whole New World” on the flute and saxophone re...
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Abbey Connected

A chance to celebrate and reflect 

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The summer term always seems to disappear in a flash of productions, sports days, residentials and ...
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Highlights

Fruit picking

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Our Reception class had a fantastic time at Grays Farm on Friday picking fruit. The children loved ...
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Highlights

Traditional Block Printing and Pattern Repeats – Upper IV Textiles

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Our Upper IV Textiles students have been learning the art of Traditional Block Printing, using hand...
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Highlights

Chinese Trip to London

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We are delighted to say that our first Chinese trip to London was a great success. In the morning, ...
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Sixth Form

Lower VI Biology A Level Field Trip

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On Tuesday, we visited the Amersham Field Studies Centre to carry out our practical work for the Ec...
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Highlights

Art Scholars Beetlejuice trip

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Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice….. On Monday 22 June our Art Scholars stepped straight int...
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Highlights

Week 9 of Summer Gateway Highlights 2026

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Abbey Connected

Confidence, Purpose and Fear

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I’m standing in a field in Gloucestershire at 8am on a Saturday morning in my exercise gearsurround...
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Highlights

Manorbier 2026

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Lower III had a fantastic and memorable time in Manorbier during their residential. The weather was...
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Highlights

Woodley welcomes The Enchanted Forest Escape Room!

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The Abbey’s Enchanted Forest Escape Room shared its magic with Woodley on Saturday. Every time s...
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Sixth Form

CHASING ACES & WIMBLEDON PICKS: Meet Abbey Tennis stars Gabby & Hannah

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With Wimbledon starting on Monday we wanted to shine a spotlight on two of The Abbey’s talented ten...
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Highlights

Prep trip to Bucklebury Farm

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Prep enjoyed a truly wonderful day out at Bucklebury Farm. It was a beautiful sunny day in the coun...
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Little Knellies

Heatwave fun!

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Little Knellies have had a fantastic time this week keeping cool in the shade with lots of exciting...
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Staff

Innovation in the Art Studio: Dr Jon Lockhart Receives Highly Commended NSEAD Award

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We are pleased to share that Dr Jon Lockhart from our Art Department has been recognised at the 202...
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Highlights

Fun Food Club Trip to The Chocolate School

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The lower school Fun Cookery Club enjoyed a wonderful trip to the Chocolate School. The trip was aw...
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Highlights

Winners of the RSC School’s Analyst Competition

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Three weeks ago we hosted the RSC School's Analyst Competition for Lower VI Chemistry students, wit...
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Juniors

Magical Maths Lesson for Lower III

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At the start of Monday's Maths lesson, Lower III received a most peculiar letter from the Hogwarts ...
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Highlights

Classics Society Trip to see Medea at Bradfield College

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On Tuesday 23 June, our Abbey School classics students went to see a fabulous performance of Medea ...
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Highlights

Lower IV trip to The Abbey Gateway schoolroom

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Stepping into the historic Abbey Gateway in Reading offers a rare glimpse into the early years of o...
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Alumnae

Week 8 of Summer Gateway Highlights 2026

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Abbey Connected

In Defence of Knowledge

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Several years ago, during a previous role as Head of Sixth Form, I met with a pupil and his father ...
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Sixth Form

Contemporary Myth Retellings

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During this school year as part of enrichment, for classics, there has been the option to do a shor...
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