Reed's In The News

The infamous magnolia tree in front of the school is suddenly in full bloom! A little bit of joy on this rainy, grey day. (Thanks to Mrs Lambert for the fab photo 😍) , #magnolia #springhassprung #springflowers

How fitting that in the week we celebrate #InternationalWomensDay we welcomed Nicci Clark, founder and CEO of Re:Nourish and the first-ever female winner of the UK Innovation Entrepreneur of the Year to talk to our A Level Business students. She spoke about her journey and the obstacles she faced, particularly as a female entrepreneur. Students were amazed to hear that, even in 2024, only 2p of every pound of finance lent to support entrepreneurs went to women, with 89p going to men and the rest to mixed gender co-founders. Nicci provided a captivating insight into the incredible growth that her fresh soup business has experienced from the production of the first bottle in 2019 to the widely distributed, international business it is today, picking up multiple awards along the way. @renourish_soup . #entrepreneur #femaleentrepreneurs #inspiringwomen

To mark International Women’s Day our Sixth Form girls were invited to a Girls’ Breakfast where they met 2 Old Reedonians, Rachel and Liv, who inspired them by talking about opportunities for women and the challenges they face as women within their industries, being in film and as a police officer. Upper Sixth Prefect, Ruby M spoke on this year's IWD theme #inspireinclusion, and reflected on how proud she was to be a Reed’s girl! The girls also enjoyed a Spring Dinner last night - a great way to get to know each other with the year groups mixed together and some fun games lead by the House Captains. . #InternationalWomensDay #internationalwomensday2024 #InspiringWomen

A busy week for @reeds.golf. A @schoolsgolf league match v @glyn_school_official and a @swiftsgolf foursomes league match v @hellofreemens, with 10 different performance squad players in action. Thank you to @burhillgolfclub @burhilljuniors for hosting, the junior match teas always a treat! Lovely to experience the apricity of the day, providing a healthy measure of sunshine, and the strengthening whiff of spring in the air. Bring on the golf season!

First Form pupils were treated to a reading of Michael Rosen's poems, No Breathing in Class, in the Library today as part of their World Book Day celebrations. Head of Library, Ms Horton, transformed the space into a school 'prison' and the boys had such fun reading along to this captivating piece of literature from one of the country's greatest childrens authors. . #MichaelRosen #nobreathinginclass #poetryforchildren #curiosity

At Reed's we like to celebrate World Book Day by allowing teaching departments to utilise their best dressing-up skills to entertain the pupils! This year produced an excellent variety of ideas: Maths teachers came as their favourite cook book chef; Geography was very topical with outfits depicting 'No more Rubbish Excuses' by Martin Dorey; the Physics dept all dressed up as characters from David Walliams books; Biology manged to scare everyone with their Addams family costumes and there were a plethora of sleuthes from Poirot to Miss Marple! Even the catering team got in on the act with outfits inspired by the prisoners in the kitchens in Paddington 2. Luckily the delicious lunch was better than the food in the film! . #worldbookday2024 #worldbookday #worldbookdaycostume

It was a brilliant visit last week @iop.lse @institute_of_physics to hear @drclarabarker speak about her work @oxford_uni developing and testing superconducting materials for #nuclearfusion reactors. A passionate and inspiring lecture which challenged our lower and upper sixth physicists to think beyond the scope of A-level. Always appreciate hearing from best-in-class scientists, legends of their own laboratories. A reminder also of the amazing collaboration of many nations and many thousands of scientists in the attempt to realise fusion power @ukaeaofficial @iter_organization