Whole School Successes

GET BERKSHIRE ACTIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL AWARD

Reading School is delighted to have won the Get Berkshire Active Award, for the Active Secondary School Award category 2020 Mr T Evans (Assistant Headmaster), Mr D McGall (Assistant Headmaster), Mr S Allen (Housemaster) and Mr J Steadman (Housemaster) were there to collect the award this year

Mr D McGall said:

“Many thanks to Sport England and in particular the Get Berkshire Team for organising the awards evening. It was an inspirational event and brilliant to meet a host of other nominees from diverse fields across Berkshire who share a passion for sport, physical activity and the role it can provide in mental and physical wellbeing. We are very proud that Reading School gained recognition through the award of “The Reading Way” and how sport can indeed play a central part in building good men.”

At Reading School, we offer a diverse range of sporting and co-curricular activities to our students. We are committed to maximising the value of activities beyond the classroom, therefore activities are overseen or led by sports coaches, staff and senior students to enhance leadership skills. To increase participation, we run popular House sports events as well as encourage students to be select from an array of sports activities each term, from Rugby, Rowing, Basketball, and Badminton to Lacrosse, Table Tennis, and Climbing - active participation has hugely increased.

SUNDAY TIMES SOUTHEAST STATE SECONDARY SCHOOL AWARD

Reading School won ‘The Sunday Times Southeast State Secondary School of the Year award 2019 to 2020’.

The school takes 7th place in this year’s national league table of state secondary schools and continues to achieve well at A level and GCSEs.

Over 88% of A levels resulted in A*s, A’s and B’s with Reading School students achieving a third of a grade per A level better than their peers with similar GCSE grades. In addition, over 90% of GCSE entries were graded as 9-7 and our GCSE cohort achieved one grade better per subject than students with identical achievement at the end of primary school resulting in a Progress 8 score of +1.03. The top performing schools in the Southeast were revealed in Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2020, published in The Sunday Times and online from Sunday 24 November 2019.

Parent Power is widely acknowledged an authoritative survey of the country’s best schools. The rankings in the secondary school league tables are determined by the percentage of examination entries gaining A* to B grades at A level and the percentage of entries returning A* and A grades, and those graded 9, 8 and 7, at GCSE. They are published several weeks ahead of the official Government tables for secondary school performance.

The Reading School Community are incredibly proud of this achievement, and aim to repeat this same feat in the years to come, despite the challenging year we have had in 2020.

Under unique circumstances the Class of 2020 have also achieved very well in both A Levels and GCSEs, ensuring that academic excellence continues to be a feature of Reading School. Both at A Level ( 40% A*, over 90% A*-B) and GCSE ( over 50% grade 9 and over 90% grades 9-7) students have fulfilled their academic potential.

Thank you to our dedicated teachers and committed students and parents for their support.