Battle Abbey School

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The annual Summer Ball was held at the end of June. Students and parents danced the night away until midnight, when the parents gave up but the students kept dancing for several more hours!

Recycled Fashion Show at the end of Activity Week

The show was the culmination of a week of work in plaaning and making clothes from any recycled materias except textiles or cloth.

The annual Sports Dinner was held on the evening of June 25th.

Presentations were made for outstanding xcontributions to school sport.

An evening of entertainment for students, parents an guests was held on Friday June 20th.

The audience was treated to some very entertaining and original presentations.

The annual Year Nine trip to the Moselle region of Germany was once again a splendid success. Here is the group, gathered in the Marktplatz in Bernkastel

The annual Sixth Form Dinner at the beginning of December started the Christmas festivities

The Christmas Dinner was a great occasion and enjoyed by all

The festive atmosphere resulted in the most enthusiastic singing and paper fight for many years

The official GCSE League Tables released in January put Battle Abbey amongst the top 100 schools in the country, and at the top of East Sussex, with a 100% achievement of 6 passes at GCSE including Maths and English.

A school production of Sweeney Todd ran for 3 nights in the Yew Tree Theatre in December. It was judged to be a great success, with some excellent individual performances.

Peer Supporters held a Hallowee'en Party for their charges when school came back from half term. Some came in fancy dress.

A group of Sixth Formers went on a very successful trip to Hong Kong at half term. The Headmaster went with them and was pleased to be able to meet many of the parents of past and present pupils.

Pupils in an English lesson improving their spelling and astronomy skills with a new board game called “Blackhole” invented by John Chambers, a previous Chemistry and Business Studies master.

On Harold’s night Harold’s ghost, awoken by loud disco music, was once more spotted walking past the great window of Abbott’s hall.

Luckily the youngest blondest blue-eyed pupil was on hand to stab the eye on Harold’s cake which dispatched the ghost back to the battlefield for another year! Hooray!

Our Annual Founders’ Day took place in glorious weather on Oct 6

Speaking this year were the Gigauri brothers from Georgia. Many former pupils returned for the event.

The annual British Heart Foundation Walk took place on Sunday Sept 30 th. Pictured are the team that braved the full 20 km from Pevensey back to Battle.

Four pupils in the school got top marks in GCSE exams and were commended by the exam board

Open day was a fine sunny day and the car park quickly became full with visitors.
In the textiles room work was underway on lavish costumes for a presentation at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

In the biology laboratory students were eagerly dissecting hearts and eyes.

The latest music software was on display in the Music Room.

Physical performance was being analysed by Mr Mercer in the Sports Science Laboratory

A light dusting of snow fell on Jan 24

The latest BBC statistics published on Jan 11 th show Battle Abbey School in an amazing 110 th place nationally in last Summer’s GCSE results. Here are a few of the pupils who contributed to this amazing achievement.

(December)The Sixth Form Dinner celebrated the end of another hard-working term

Carols Around the Fire started the Christmas festivities once more with the choir on fine form

There were the usual traditional readings

And some strong individual performances

Christmas lunch signalled the end of another term

(October)The Harold’s Night Disco featured the usual appearance of Harold’s ghost and the cutting of the cake

Into the Woods in the New Fountain Theatre featured some excellent performances from Year 9 through to the Sixth Form