Junior School Receives Eco Schools Accreditation

The Abbey Junior School is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious Eco Schools Award with Distinction. This significant recognition places the school among an elite group of ove...

Podcast with a Cake – S3E7

This episode is all about Diversity at our school, where our EDI officers reflect on the highlights...

Podcast With a Cake – S3EP6

Our Sixth-Form podcasters, Ella and Grace, interview Mr. Paterson, the Memory Man, to find out ever...

Food and Nutrition

LVB had been set an assignment to make a 3 course meal under £5 as part of our affordable living pr...

Stunning IB Results at The Abbey

Every year we celebrate exceptional performances by Abbey students in the globally respected IB Dip...

Summer Term Gateway Highlights

While it's challenging to capture all the incredible events and memories of the term, we've done ou...

Nearly New Uniform Shop

We are excited to announce that we have launched the Nearly New Uniform Shop online, and it is now ...

Lower VI Conference

On Tuesday 11 June we participated in a series of informative seminars as part of the Lower VI Conf...

Ordination Service

On Saturday 22 June, seven members of the Abbey Senior Choir, from Lower V to Upper VI, joined Read...

Passion About Sport Award

The Abbey was absolutely thrilled to win the Passion About Sport category at the recent Muddy's Bes...

Celebrating The Abbey Line

Wow! Simply wow. What a day - a morning and afternoon speech day, either side of a beautiful celebr...

Football Stars

Rosa and Lara in Upper I recently enjoyed success with their respective grassroots football clubs a...

Advertising: Persuading An Audience

This half term Lower IV English classes have been learning about advertising and how written and vi...

Sixth Form French Debate

Last week, The Abbey School hosted a French debate with Reading School, where students discussed wh...

How The World Works

The Reception children have really enjoyed growing their own plants, fruit, vegetables and flowers ...

Upper I Roman Day

Upper I enjoyed a fun-filled Roman day with a range of activities planned to enhance their Unit of ...

New Designers Exhibition

On 28 June, we travelled to London to see the New Designers exhibition where textile students acros...

Studios Sounds

Last Thursday saw our final Studio Sounds of the year. Eighteen pupils from Lower I - Lower III ent...

Final Termly Recital

The final Interludes Recital of the summer term was a special occasion showcasing the marimba with ...

Junior Sports Days

What a fabulous way to finish the term with our UII & LIII Sports Day! All students participate...

Charity Challenge

On Saturday, 29 June, our Marketing and Admissions Officer and Abbey Mum, Pamela Durrant, fellow Ab...

A Word From The Head Girls!

As the school year comes to a close, we’d like to recap our experience in our first term as The...

Tennis Camp

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Carnegie Book Challenge

The Carnegie Book Challenge has been running for years at The Abbey. It offers young bookworms the ...

U13 Aegon Tennis

On Monday 1 July, four of our most talented U13 Tennis players travelled to Charters School to play...

Progress and Fairness

We awoke this morning to a new political era. Many Abbey students were not alive the last time we h...

Leadership Conference

In order to prepare us for taking on leadership roles in Upper IV, the school held a number of acti...

Textiles Fashion!

In Upper III, we made a lovely pair of pyjamas! We learnt so many new things in textiles this y...

Prestigious Classical Association Competition

Janani has been highly commended in the Junior category of the 2024 Classical Association Poetry Co...

Night of Rock!

Last Friday night, the Richards Hall was transformed into a venue fit for Rock N Roll. The even...

Eco Reps Visit to Reading University

On Thursday 20 June a group of eco reps and prefects visited Reading University to participate ...

Recipe Test!

In English we have been studying non-fiction texts and last week Mr Dennedy gave us a horrendously ...

National Teaching Award Certificate

Miss Mogio was presented with her certificate from the National Teaching Awards last Thursday on Na...

Rubik’s Cube Mastery

This term, Lower III have embarked on the incredible journey to solving a Rubik’s cube. What began ...

Oxford German Olympiad: Sisterly Success

Hallo Leute!  Every year, the Oxford German Network of Oxford University runs a themed olym...

Summer Reading List

Christina, one of our Reading Champions, has written a recommended reading list for the summer. Let...

Summer Quiz

On Wednesday, June 19, The Abbey was delighted to host the annual Abbey and Reading School Sixth Fo...

Flute Masterclass

Recently, my flute teacher invited me to Dawkes music shop to participate in an individual flute ma...

UCAS Preparation Morning – Classics

As part of the UCAS preparation morning, two classics students visited the local Ure Museum of Gree...

Reading and District Athletics League

On Tuesday the U14 Athletes represented The Abbey in the 'A' final of the Reading and District Athl...

Bells and Boomwhackers Club

The Preparatory Bells and Boomwhackers Club have been entertaining staff and students in Abbey Gard...

A Level Biology Trip

Last Tuesday, we went on an A Level Biology trip to Amersham Field centre. Our objectives for the d...

U13 Reading Town Championships

On Wednesday 19 June, nine Abbey athletes took part in the U13 Reading Town Championships. The athl...

IB Biology Field Trip

IB biologists and ESS students had the pleasure of collecting data for their various Internal Asses...

ESAA Regional Schools Combined Events

It has been two months since Serena in Lower IV took part in the County Schools Combined Events Com...

Festival Dance

Two of our talented girls from Lower Prep , Aarya and Latisha, recently performed a cultural dance ...

Abbey Gardens: Pre-Residential

One Friday evening in early June whilst all the other Abbey students went home, Upper Prep stayed i...

Carol Shaw: Gaming’s Hidden Heroine

Have you ever lost yourself in rebuilding (in some cases, improving) your own life in The Sims? You...

Rounders

The Abbey participated in a friendly Rounders match against Shiplake College on Wednesday scoring 6...

Brilliant Brigstocke Performances

The Final of the Baroness Brigstocke Memorial House Public Speaking Competition took place on Tuesd...

My German Trip

During the week in Berlin, we explored various parts of Berlin including historical sites such as t...