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.

"Our Country's Good" Performance

Tickets are available from the School Office. Performances at 7.30pm from 8th - 10th February 2012. The play by Timberlake Wertenbaker is a modern classic and tells the story of the first theatrical performance in Australia in 1788 by a convict cast. It is based on a number of true stories about characters who had reached rock bottom in terms of their dignity as human beings. they are redeemed by their participation in the play.