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Rapunzel show success

Over the Christmas break, Elsie in Upper I performed as a villager in the pantomime production of Rapunzel at the Kenton Theatre in Henley-on-Thames. She loved dancing, singing and acting her way thr...
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Seniors

Winner of the Stephen Spender Prize Competition – Chinese

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We are excited to share the wonderful news that Shiqian, Berry has triumphed in the Stephen Spender...
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Seniors

The Athena Award

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The Athena Award for Philosophy and Theology is a new, annually awarded academic prize at The Abbey...
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The Abbey

Time to reflect: on keeping the good alive

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Christmas, of course, focuses on God, or ‘good’, entering into the world in the person of Jesus. As...
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Abbey Connected

New Year, Familiar Faces

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This term started, somewhat improbably, with the ‘Christmas reunion’ for the classes of 2024, 2023 ...
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Alumnae

Enrichment Bites: Lila Spencer

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Lila Spencer, an Abbey alumna and student at Oxford University, gave a fascinating talk on studying...
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Seniors

Upper IV Christmas Disco

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Our Upper IV students enjoyed their fantastic Christmas Disco! Here are some great photos from ...
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Highlights

End of Autumn Term 2024 Gateway Highlights

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

Abbey Gardens’ Fingerknitting and Weaving Club, where everything is handmade with love!

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Over the summer and autumn terms, Upper Preps nimble fingers and minds, have been engaged, enthused...
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Seniors

Joyous and uplifting Carol Service

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There are moments in time that remain forever in the hearts and minds of the people who were there ...
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TAPS

Christmas Candlelight Procession

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An Evening to Remember: Our Annual Christmas Candlelight Celebration! Last Monday, the Abbe...
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Sixth Form

Colacao

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In their recent IB Spanish HL literature lesson with Sra. Trujillo, the students explored Spanish t...
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Juniors

Festive theatre fun!

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Abbey Gardens' students were wowed at a wonderful Christmas show by Scratch Built Productions at th...
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Seniors

RBH Giving Tree ‘Wrap Off’

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Thank you for all your kind donations for the RBH Gift Tree Appeal. Lower IV did a brilliant job in...
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Abbey Connected

Change and becoming

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I start with an apology for the image that accompanies this article. It is not something that anyon...
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Seniors

Brass Ensemble Spreads Festive Cheer at the Henley Living Advent Calendar

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On Monday night The Abbey School brass ensemble were ‘revealed’ as the surprise act behind door num...
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Sixth Form

Cafe Maths: When Maths meets Nora’s Cafe

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A trip to the school café turned into an exciting statistics experiment for our A-level students, b...
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Seniors

Io Saturnalia from Mythology Club!

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Mythology club has gathered every fortnight this term to delve into stories and legends of the past...
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Sixth Form

Putting a face to our Social Enterprise ideas

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The third workshop of this year’s Social Enterprise Hub programme (SEH v3) took place on Monday and...
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Little Knellies

H0! HO! HO! Merry Christmas

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Little Knellies celebrated the Christmas season with joy and enthusiasm. The children relished thei...
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Seniors

Physics at The Abbey

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Over the last year and a half I have really enjoyed teaching Science at The Abbey School and I will...
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The Abbey

Time to reflect: on the Prince of Peace

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In The Middle East, nearly 3,000 years ago, an ancient prophecy was made. It foretold that in the f...
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The Abbey

How Saturnalia became Christmas

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4th Century CE, after which a new winter holiday began to be celebrated in Rome: Christmas. But how...
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Seniors

German Gingerbread House Competition

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At the end of the Autumn term, the German Department held a Gingerbread House Competition. 11 teams...
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Seniors

The Maidenhead Festival of Music and Dance

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Recently, I performed in the Maidenhead Festival of Music and Dance competing in the G2 category (G...
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Seniors

Interludes Recital

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The last interlude recital of the term included many amazing performances. Starting with three f...
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Seniors

Upper III – “Flipping happy students in French Cookery Club!”

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My name is Beatrice and this half term I attended French Cooking Club. The club was after school on...
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Seniors

Art Scholars visit to the Harry Potter Warner Bros. Studio Tour

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On Friday, the art scholars went to Warner Brothers Studios to see how the Harry Potter films were ...
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Sixth Form

Economics Alumnae Talk

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Last week, Abbey alumnae Alice and Shruti came in to talk about their experience of studying Econom...
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Sixth Form

Upper VI Oxford A Level Masterclass

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On Monday 9th December, Upper VI A-level Philosophy and Theology students went to Oxford for a seri...
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Seniors

Brass Ensemble spread festive cheer at the Royal Berkshire Hospital

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On Tuesday, the Abbey Brass ensemble performed a variety of Christmas carols in the reception area ...
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Seniors

Christmas at The Taylor Library

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It has been a busy term in the senior school library - not least in the hundreds of book loans, lib...
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Sixth Form

School Personality of the Year

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We are delighted that Upper VI student, Carys Westcott, has been announced as the winner of “School...
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Uncategorized

Gateway Highlights

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Have a look at this week's highlights across the school.
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Seniors

Aachen Market

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Aachen is a beautiful place which is located on Germany’s borders with Belgium and the Netherlands....
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Seniors

‘Bah! Humbug!’ 

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Lower IV enjoyed a production of ‘A Christmas Carol’ on Wednesday afternoon in the Richards Hall. A...
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Sixth Form

Social Enterprise Hub

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Being part of the Social Enterprise Hub with Reading School is such an amazing experience for all o...
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Abbey Connected

2024

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It’s been a year punctuated by a glittering succession of awards, moments when we have celebrated t...
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Seniors

The Abbey becomes a Cisco Networking Academy

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Last week The Abbey School was approved as a Cisco Networking Academy. Cisco Networking Academy ...
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Juniors

Humph! The Camel

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The Reception children enjoyed performing in their Christmas Production called 'Humph The Camel'. T...
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The Abbey

Time to reflect: on becoming

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Just as we love and accept a new born baby as it is, but do not hope it will stay as it is, we can ...
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Juniors

Santa Run!

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Oliwia in Upper Prep took part in the annual Santa run on Sunday and was very proud to have fin...
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Seniors

Library Jigsaw in progress

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Esme, Emma, Margaret, Aadhya, Aaruhsi, Kiyathi and myself did crafts and puzzles in the Taylor Libr...
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Juniors

Dancing Success

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Lithika, Upper prep has been learning dance under her teacher, Manasa Kaushik. She recently perform...
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Little Knellies

Festive Fun in Music for Little Knellies

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Little Knellies have been enjoying some festive themed activities in their music and movement sessi...
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Seniors

Enrichment Talk by Lizzie Fanning

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On Tuesday 26 November, Lizzie Fanning joined us from Spain to talk to the Upper VI, Lower VI and U...
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The Abbey

Celebrating Bebras GOLD

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78 students across The Abbey School are celebrating this week having achieved Gold status in the in...
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The Abbey

Miss Mogio Explores the Power of E-sports in Education

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Last Monday, Miss Mogio had the incredible opportunity to deliver a workshop at the University of R...
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Seniors

Classics Trip to the British Museum

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On a chilly Wednesday morning in December, Classics students from across the Senior School set out ...
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Seniors

Royal Berkshire Hospital Gift Tree Appeal

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Hello everyone, this year Lower IV is supporting the Royal Berkshire Hospital by donating some gift...
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Juniors

Carol Singing at Reading Station

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Travellers at Reading Station on Wednesday were entertained by a group of Upper II and Lower III st...
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