We thank everyone who joined the School on Saturday 29th November for an unforgettable celebration of nine centuries of Reading School’s remarkable story.

Alumni, parents past and present, staff, students, and friends of the School gathered for a formal occasion that honoured our extraordinary heritage and looked with hope toward our future. As was beautifully reflected in the evening’s address, our community is bound not only by affection for this school, but by a shared commitment to the generations yet to come.

A special thank you to Tom Whipple (OR 1993–2000), Science Writer and Special Correspondent at The Times, for sharing his reflections with warmth, wit and wisdom.

With grateful thanks to:

• Oliver Griffin, Director of Music, for his outstanding leadership and arrangements

• Our exceptional Events Team, Esther Chong and Piatrice Hutchinson

• Our dedicated Catering Team for a superb meal

• Our Estates Team and Associate Staff for their support

And to our talented student musicians, who filled tonight with brilliance and atmosphere.

What a joy to belong to something so much bigger, so much older, and with so much still to come. Here’s to the legacy we build together – and to the next hundred years.

“Schools grow great when old men or women plant trees in whose shade we shall never sit.”

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