Welcome from the Head

Live adventurously! When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts? Every stage of our lives offers fresh opportunities. I welcome you warmly to Leighton Park School. We celebrate that which is distinctive within each of our students, and encourage each member of our community to live adventurously, and to let our lives speak, in accordance with our Quaker values.

We do so in our academic work, our richly diverse extra-curricular programme, and in our relationships with one another. This positive, exciting and compassionate approach to learning and life is the hallmark of a Leighton Park education.

Set in a beautiful 65 acre park on the outskirts of Reading, but only 30 minutes from central London and Heathrow airport, Leighton Park School is a happy, diverse community in which boys and girls from age 11 to 18 live, learn and flourish together as boarders or day pupils.

You will be struck on visiting us by the sense of calm and space which exists here, creating the atmosphere of a university campus rather than a school. It is the ideal environment in which to think, reflect and learn. Our students display a maturity which is distinctive because they are treated with respect and encouraged to develop their independence. They experience a purposeful academic environment, but have enormous fun, and are prepared for life beyond school through a curriculum and approach to teaching and learning which acknowledges that the World is changing rapidly. The job of a school is to develop the values, positivity, understanding and awareness which will equip our young people for the often unknown adventures that lie ahead.

We would be delighted if you could visit us and meet our impressive students. Whether you are a parent or a prospective pupil, take the first step on a really exciting, transforming and fulfilling journey with us.

In friendship,

Alex McGrath

Head of Leighton Park School.

Senior Production Announced for 2013!

We are very excited to announce that the Senior Production for 2013 will be MISS SAIGON SCHOOL EDITION. A classic love story is brought up-to-date in one of the most stunning theatrical spectacles of all time. In this specially adapted version of MISS SAIGON, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (the creators of LES MISÉRABLES), along with Richard Maltby,Jr., bring Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to the modern world in a moving testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the tragedies of war.

In the turmoil of the Vietnam War, an American soldier and a Vietnamese girl fall in love, only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. Their struggles to find each other over the ensuing years ends in tragedy for her and a fighting chance for the child he never knew he had.

Auditions will take place in September and the production, a collaboration between the music and drama departments, will follow on from the recent successes of Our Country's Good (2012), Evita (2011), The Crucible (2010), West Side Story (2009), Under Milk Wood (2008) and Grease (2007).