Abingdon is an unashamedly academic school, providing a broad education
which aims to nurture intellectual development, interest and enthusiasm for
learning as well as achieving results. The School follows the GCSE and A level
curricula for public examinations, but we aim to teach well beyond what is
expected from exam syllabuses and we draw on a wide range of experience
and techniques to enrich each subject. Classroom education is supplemented
by visits to exhibitions, demonstrations, performances, specialist speakers,
theatre trips and lectures. We advocate first-hand experience of culture and
language and the practical benefit of field trips; hence boys are encouraged
to join classics trips to Greece and Italy, foreign language exchange
programmes to France, Spain, Germany and China and geography and
biology field trips in the UK and abroad.
Abingdon achieves outstanding results in public examinations, consistently
maintaining a leading position in the UK. The vast majority of boys move on to
higher education, most to the UK’s top universities, including large numbers
each year to Oxford and Cambridge. We believe that our pupils can reach the
highest academic standards whilst being fully engaged in an excellent all-
round educational programme. The tremendous reputation of our sport,
drama, art and music is testament to the success of this philosophy.
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