School reception transition event for girls moving from The Abbey Junior School to reception, with morning and evening sessions.
The Abbey Junior School is holding Big Steps into Reception on Friday 6 November, a transition event for girls moving up into Reception. It runs across two slots on the same day: a morning session from 09:00 to 10:30 and an evening one from 18:00 to 21:00, so you can pick the one that fits your schedule.
It's part of the school's broader 'Road to Reception' programme, which they run alongside 'Stay & Play' to help the youngest girls settle in before they make the jump. The Abbey is an independent girls' school that takes pupils from age 3 right through to 18, with a Junior School and a Senior School and Sixth Form on the same site. Because it's all-through, many of the teachers follow the girls from their first days all the way up to A Levels, so the faces they meet now are often the ones they'll still be seeing years later.
That continuity carries into the curriculum, which includes specialist lessons in ballet, swimming, French, PE, music and woodwork, and a hot lunch every day. For families starting at the nursery end, there's government early years funding available. And if your daughter has been at the Abbey Junior School since Nursery, there's a discount of half a term's fees for Upper III (Year 7) when she reaches that stage.
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Big Steps into Reception is free to attend, with the morning session from 09:00 to 10:30 and the evening from 18:00 to 21:00 at The Abbey Junior School in Reading.
