Abbey Learning Festival

On Wednesday 15 November all the Upper IIIs, Lower IVs and Upper IVs presented their work from the previous week's Learning Festivals to an audience of Upper VI and Lower III students, plus many teac...

Upper Prep Art

Upper Prep have been exploring story telling and how artists use storytelling in their artwork. We ...

Only Connected

As an English teacher, I am often brought into contact with perceptions channelled via traditionall...

Interludes Rectical

This Wednesday, four other students and I performed in The Abbey Interludes. There was a wide varie...

Celebrating partnerships

On Monday The Abbey School and Reading School made a joint visit to the House of Lords to celebrate...

The Circuit: Password Best Practices 

In a world where the internet plays an integral role in education, communication, and daily life, p...

Larder Challenge

On Wednesday we completed ‘The Larder Challenge.’ Our aim was to create high skill and complex dish...

Maths Curiosity for Lower III

Part of the curiosity project for Lower III, Senior School maths teachers Mr Li and Mrs Mallet...

U13 Football Win

The U13 B football team secured a fantastic 3-1 victory against St Joseph's on Monday night under t...

Food and Nutrition

Lower VI students have recently started learning about Diet and Nutrition within their A Level PE l...

Bebras Gold!

The Bebras Results are in! Over the last couple of weeks over 500 Abbey students across both the...

Independent Research Projects

Twenty Upper VI students completed extensive independent research projects and presented their find...

Science: Bunsen Burners

Upper II have had a very exciting week in science…they have learnt how to use the bunsen burners!&n...

French Food Tasting

Last week Lower V French students participated in a French Food tasting within their classes. Each ...

U16 Abbey Hockey – South Central Regional champions

The Abbey U16 Hockey team won their County Championships in October to qualify for the South Centra...

Public Speaking Success

On Tuesday 21st November our senior public speaking teams (Lower V and Upper V) competed in the ESU...

The Circuit: Social Engineering

This week’s topic for The Circuit is Social Engineering; essentially exploiting human psycholog...

Save the date – Candlelit Procession

Monday 4 December All Abbey families are invited to join us after school on Monday 4 D...

A State of Mind

At The Abbey, we’ve always sought to show the full spectrum of womanhood across age, race, religion...

Festival of Music and Dance

At the weekend I performed in the Maidenhead Festival of Music and Dance. I competed in the G1 cate...

Diwali in Reception

Reception made a vibrant start to their new Unit of Inquiry, in which we will be thinking about ‘Ex...

The Landlord’s Cat

On Wednesday and Thursday this week, both Lower and Upper Prep performed their production of 'The L...

Girls Advocacy

On Wednesday 15 November I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Girls Advocacy Event hosted at ...

Taylor Library: 50th Anniversary

Thursday 16 November saw the culmination of the library 50th anniversary celebrations in which ther...

Abbey Interludes

I think that the interludes recital went very well this year as so many people from a range of year...

Maths week

Last week, Senior School students were immersed in Maths Week when they faced a number of challenge...

Hockey at Juniors

On Tuesday, 25 students from Lower I and Upper I headed to Abingdon to play The Manor at Hockey.&nb...

ToK Essays

Upper VI IB students have been working hard on their Theory of Knowledge essays in the past few day...

Textiles London Trip

On our Textiles trip to South Kensington we visited the DIVA exhibition at the V&A museum where...

U12’s Football

The U12's started their Reading league campaign with three games hosted at Bohunt School, Wokingham...

Lower IV Christmas Carol

On Friday, Quantum Theatre Company came to perform ‘A Christmas Carol’ to Lower IV, w...