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Reading Half Marathon and Green Park Challenge

It was amazing to see The Abbey School community all over the Reading Half Marathon on Sunday - taking part in such a huge Reading event in all manners of ways! We ran the official water station o...
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Highlights

Gateway Highlights

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Have a look at Week 11 of our Spring Term Gateway Highlights!
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Dance Showcase

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Students from Upper II and Lower III Dance Club took the stage on Wednesday for the annual Dance Sh...
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The Abbey

Gym and Dance show next week!

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The Abbey’s biennial Evening of Gymnastics and Dance returns next week on Monday, March 31, and Tue...
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Sixth Form

Reading Youth Council Conference

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Last Monday, students from Upper IV, Lower V and Lower VI attended the annual Reading Youth Council...
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Staff

Computing Department model kindness through volunteering

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This weekend saw the teachers of the Computer Science Department volunteering in Reading, modelling...
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Highlights

The Senior School Abbey Earth Day

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Celebrating The Abbey Earth Day: A Day of Environmental Action On Friday, 21st March 2025, The A...
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Abbey Connected

What we take with us

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Last Saturday was one of the highlights of the annual calendar: our Magnolia Tea and Tours day for ...
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Sixth Form

Mitosis at the Abbey

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Lower VI Biology students enjoyed looking at garlic root tip cells under the microscope, after they...
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Highlights

Ballroom and Jive!

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Sienna competed in a dance competition this weekend and came second in Ballroom (Quick step) and se...
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Alumnae

Abbey School alumna art exhibit in Reading Museum

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Reading Museum has an exhibition about Reading's digital history, take a look here! It features ...
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Highlights

Tell Me a Dragon…

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From words to wonders, Lower Prep students brought dragons to life! After exploring Jackie Morris's...
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Seniors

German Week!

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It's been all go in the German department! Our 6th form recently enjoyed a fascinating seminar on t...
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Highlights

Art Scholars journey into the Strange and Wonderful World of Tim Burton

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On Monday, our Art Scholars had the incredible opportunity to visit the Tim Burton exhibition at Th...
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Seniors

German letters to teachers

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In their German lessons, Lower IV students learnt to talk about their school, subjects and the reas...
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Seniors

More Than Just Numbers: The RI Maths Masterclasses That Inspire

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Recently, four students in Upper IV had the amazing opportunity to attend five mathematics mastercl...
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Seniors

PaT Post competition winners

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Over the past term the PaT department held a competition in which students had to write 100 words a...
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Highlights

Kensington makes a huge splash at House Swimming

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Last Thursday saw nearly one hundred swimmers from across the senior school compete for the House S...
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Seniors

Tess Howard hosts The Abbey’s Sports Dinner

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Last Friday, The Abbey hosted its annual Sports Dinner to recognise and celebrate the achievement o...
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Highlights

Upper I visit the Green Park Wind Turbine

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This morning, Upper I students had an exciting visit to one of Reading’s most iconic landmarks – th...
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National Biathlon

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Last Sunday, Millie in Lower I travelled to the University of Bath to compete in the Great British ...
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Seniors

Interludes Recital

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Last week: Three pianists, a violinist, cellist, trumpeter and Recorder Ensemble were well recei...
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Highlights

Winter Regional Tour

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Congratulations to Elsie on being A WRT finalist!  Elsie came second in a Winter Regional T...
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Seniors

Marshmallow fun for Microloan profit with Upper III

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In Upper III we have been given a loan to make into a business. We were feeling a bit low last week...
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Highlights

First Tennis Tournament Success

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Congratulations to Alora! Alora won her first tennis tournament for U9's grade 5 in girls single...
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Seniors

A Puzzle at The Library

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Manxi and Emma in Upper III completed a puzzle about Creative Women. They completed the whole puzzl...
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Highlights

Developing Leadership in Upper IV

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Today I was very proud to teach a lesson. I lead a group of my peers to produce a delicious chicken...
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Alumnae

Magnolia Tea & Tours 2025

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What a glorious time we had at our ‘Magnolia Tea & Tours’ on Saturday. It was such a pleasure t...
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Highlights

Spring Overtures Concert sparkles

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A capacity audience packed the Richards Hall to enjoy an eclectic programme of music from the Symph...
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Seniors

Scholastic Book Fair

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Get ready—the Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school! This is a great opportunity to bring ho...
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Abbey Connected

Icons of the Abbey

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There are several icons of the Abbey - our classic green and purple uniform, Nora and of course our...
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Highlights

Upper IV Enterprise Day

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On Tuesday, I took part in the Upper IV Enterprise Day which I thoroughly enjoyed. The day started ...
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Highlights

Tenacity will open up a world of opportunity in the BBC…

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Last Thursday evening we hosted an inspiring finale to our ARCH ‘Behind the Mic’ series with our ‘M...
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Highlights

Week 2 of Woodley Festival 2025

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Aishani at The Woodley Festival Aishani was over the moon to secure 2nd place in the Piano Solo ...
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Seniors

‘Poetry Together’ 2025 Competition

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Grace W and Margaret enter into the 'Poetry Together' 2025 Competition! Margaret, with her beautifu...
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Highlights

Lower IV House Bake Off – Biscuit Bonanza!

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This week in Food and Nutrition, Lower IV were in action making some wonderful biscuits from scratc...
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Sixth Form

Students raising money for YoungMinds charity

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This coming Sunday, we will be running the Reading Half Marathon to raise money for YoungMinds, a c...
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Highlights

Ballet Exam Success at the Junior School

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Many congratulations to all the ballet students who recently took part in Imperial Society of Teach...
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Seniors

French theatre production

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Students of French in Lower IV and Upper IV were treated to a performance of ‘Prendre sa revanche’ ...
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Seniors

Exploring Spanish Carnivals in Upper III

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Upper III Spanish students have been busy immersing themselves in Spanish-speaking culture by learn...
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Alumnae

Enrichment Bites: Ellie Smith

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On Monday 10 March, Abbey alumna Ellie Smith gave a speech on her journey as an electronics enginee...
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Seniors

German Webinar

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Last week, A-level German students attended a webinar by Dr Konstantin Vössing from City University...
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Juniors

U8/9 Netball Match

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On Friday 16th March, we played a netball match against Sherfield and Cranford House. I was Captain...
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Highlights

National Dance Celebration

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Aahana in Lower IV and her Bharatnatyam dance team based in Reading, participated in the prestigiou...
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Highlights

British Science Week

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We have been celebrating British Science Week at The Abbey, sharing our passion for girls in scienc...
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Alumnae

Alumna Talk on Candomblé

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The Philosophy and Theology department hosted an talk entitled Candomblé: A Religion of Resistance ...
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Juniors

Neurodiversity celebration week

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At the Junior school, we participated in Neurodiversity celebration week. We started with an assemb...
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Highlights

Oedipus Rex at the Old Vic

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On Wednesday 12 March, members of the Senior School Classics Society travelled to London to see a n...
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Seniors

Readathon finishes at the end of March!

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Recently, the historical fiction author, Phillippa Gregory, contacted The Abbey on behalf of the ch...
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Highlights

German Board Game

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It's German week! Simra in Lower IV created a fantastic board game for her entry into the German Ol...
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Highlights

Pi is irrational, but celebrating it just makes sense

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What is Pi day? World Pi Day is celebrated on 14th March (3/14) every year and celebra...
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