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Abbey: Connected

Each week, Abbey staff provide their reflections on a wide range of issues that affect education, the UK and the wider world. Click the button below to read through the library of articles.

A (female) life well lived

It is testament to the respect felt for Queen Elizabeth II that she was honoured this week by perhaps the most moving spectacle in British history. Her state funeral brought together one of the…

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A time to reflect

Some of the most important experiences in all of our lives are those that bind us. Moments when by design or chance we feel a genuine, profound, even euphoric sense of connection with others. It…

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The point of it all

Many strange tasks befall a head of school: and this week brought what is always one of the strangest, even though it comes round every year. The scene: IB results day. Students and families gather…

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One voice

Sing and dance to it. Listen, and feel it. We start each morning assembly uplifted by inspiring music and end our service in collective song. Music in the Junior School has the power to shift our…

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Champions

There is only one word for the events of this week: exhilaration. Monday brought the joyous news that Lily and Erin (Upper V) had triumphed in the national final of the Poetry by Heart competition.…

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