- Named Independent Girls’ School of the Year 2024, this 138-year-old day school prides itself on nurturing a “diverse and down-to-earth community full of enthusiasm, spark and energy”.
- The all-girl school’s initiatives include Abbey IP (ideas and passion), which encourages students to explore learning beyond the curriculum, and Human Intelligence, which focuses on human endeavour in a growing world of AI, and puts pupils in charge of their own learning.
- The Abbey has been an International Baccalaureate World School since 2008. Its IB cohort achieves a far higher score than the global average.
- The wide extracurricular offering includes more than 50 lunchtime and after-school clubs, and activities from gardening and coding, to circus skills and Ultimate Frisbee.
- Former pupils include the novelist Brigid Brophy and the historian Lucy Worsley.
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