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READING DIRECTORY— 1919.

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T H E A B B E Y SCH O O L.
Kendrick road.
(G irls’ School with Preparatory Department.)
P r e s i d e n t & C h a ir m a n o f C o u n c i l . — The Ven. the Archdeacon of Berkshire
Head mistress, Miss H . E . Musson (Camb. Math. Tripos). Assistant
mistresses, Miss R. Sprules B.A.Lond.; Miss G. Rix m. a . (Camb. Nat.
Sci. T r ip o s )M is s Benton (Camb. Class. Tripos); Mdlle. Vouga (Brevet
de Connaissances, Neuchatel); Miss Sacret b .a .Land. (H ist. H o n s .);
Miss Linay (H igher Cert. N .T .U .) ; M issH allett; Miss K em ley ; Miss
A yres; Mile. Bouchez; Miss Davy (Chelsea Physical Training
Diplom a); also visiting teachers of music, elocution, drawing, painting
& dancing. The scheme provides for a thorough modern education
& pupils are prepared for the usual leaving examinations in the higher
forms of the school. The school gives definite church teaching, the
right of withdrawing a scholar from religious instruction being
reserved to the parent or guardian. School Boarding houses, Abbey
House, Kendrick ro a d ; Brooklyn, Kendrick road & 27 Erleigh road
Prospectuses may be obtained from the bursar at the school

L E IG H T O N P A R K S C H O O L.
(The frien ds’ Public School Co. Lim ited.)
On the Shinfield road, established 1890, with the sanction of the London
yearly meeting of the Society of Friends & under the management of
members of that body, is about two miles sodth of the Reading railway
stations: originally a square brick mansion, it has been adapted to
school purposes & very extensive additions have been made, so that
it will now hold 33 students; a second house has been built on most
perfect plans, to accommodate 35 pupils. The school stands within a
park of 45 acres of park land, & a sanatorium for 12 patients has been
built at some distance from the school house: there are also a
central hall and form rooms, fully-equipped science buildings, a
gymnasium & a swimming bath-: Charles 1. Evans m.a. St. John’s College,
Oxford, head master
T H E R E A D I N G A R T S T U D IO S ,
70 London street; H. Dawson Barkas a .u .c. A .L o n d . head master ; A . A.
Atkina, correspondent
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T H E K E N D R I C K S C H O O LS

Were founded from certain charities left by John Kendrick in 1624, &
by Mary Kendrick,consisting of a portion of a freehold farm at Tilehurst,
two freehold cottages at Waltham St. Lawrence & a sum of £626 in
Consols. These charities were diverted by the Endowed Schools Com­
missioners to educational purposes & a Middle Class school for boys
erected in Queen’s road, a similar school for girls being established on
premises belonging to the Corporation in Watlington st. These schools
take an intermediate position between the National & Grammar Schools;
they are non-sectarian, & deserving scholars from the elementary schools,
after examination,are awarded exhibitions in the form of partial or total
exemption from fees, the governors having also the power to defray the
educational expenses of select pupils from these schools at the Grammar
school or some place of higher education, for a term of three years; the
boys’ school now numbers over 230 scholars & the girls’ school 200