Queen Anne's School

Queen Anne’s is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18, situated in Caversham, just north of Reading. Originally founded as part of the Grey Coat Hospital Foundation in 1698, Queen Anne’s was set up as a separate school in 1894. There are approximately 450 pupils, with a 50:50 boarding/day mix.

Our attractive grounds span 35 acres and include academic blocks and boarding houses, sports facilities including a swimming pool, sports centre and state of the art fitness suite, and extensive playing fields and hard tennis courts. Sport is an integral part of the offer here, with numerous teams competing every week. Queen Anne’s has an illustrious sporting history in lacrosse, where in the 1990’s the school was never out of the top 4 teams nationally.

Looking to the present and future, there is much promise in the current crop of Queen Anne’s sportswomen, and we look to hire national level coaches in sports where we can. As examples, we currently have an England lacrosse player on our staff, and in rowing we have an Olympic finalist and the coach of several Olympic and World Championship medal crews. Recent Queen Anne’s girls have competed in the Olympics (silver medal at Rio in the women’s rowing eight); represented Great Britain in the Junior World Rowing Championships (silver medal at Rotterdam in the 4’s); and represented England at lacrosse at senior level and at U19 level.

We have an active parents association (QASPA), and a thriving old girls association – the QA Society.

Our ethos is to value our girls as individuals and strive to help them reach their potential. Strong academic and pastoral care encourages students to build confidence, stretch their abilities and achieve their goals. We have a ‘no limits’ approach to the girls’ learning and development that produces excellent academic results and outstanding achievements in every field. Our aim is to create happy, successful, independent young women, who thrive on new experiences and are able to pursue their goals with confidence.

The school has played lacrosse from it’s very start but now has:

4 performance sports of lacrosse, netball, tennis and dance

3 development sports: tier 1  athletics, swimming and rowing            

2 development sports : tier 2 trampoline and cricket

Participations sports including– badminton, basketball, fitness, Zumba, yoga,

Every 4 years lacrosse tour to US, first swim and tennis tour planned, U4 netball residential and dance performances at festivals.

VISION: To become a leading school for girls’ sport.

MISSION: To create an inclusive, integrated sporting environment to support and enhance performance, leadership, development, participation and wellbeing for every pupils

Sporting Achievements:

Lacrosse:

1st lacrosse team reached final 16 (championship division) at Nationals Schools Champs. U15B team semi finalists in B team National Schools Champs.

Multiple girls at county level, several pupils at regional level, two girls at England U19B level and one at England U19A level.

U15 and U12 teams winners of SW rally, U13’s runners up.

Netball:

U15s semi finalists in School Sport Cup last year

U16s reached the regional knockouts in the English Schools Netball Competition

Many club players and 1 girl on the performance pathway at Regional Academy level.

Tennis:

U18 team Aegon Championship finalists.

U15s second in county championships.

Rowing:

National Indoor Ergs – won multiple medals

Current pupil on GB start rowing programme, joining a girl who is now three years into the programme. Old girl silver medallist at 2016 Olympics women’s 8.

Athletics:

Regular winners at Foundation Sports Day.

Current pupil ranked 4^th in country for shot.

Trampoline:

Novice team won the regional round and went through to zonals. Our elite competitor came 8^th in the National Final.

We have approximately 450 pupils all of whom are in the 11 to 18 age range. Of these half are day girls. Day girls’ parents tend to live in either south Oxfordshire or Berkshire, although the reach extends out to the Beaconsfield/Amersham/Gerrards Cross area. Boarders’ parents again are mainly from the South Oxfordshire/Berkshire area, but with a wider geographical distribution mainly into west London, but with a few in Surrey, Hampshire and Wiltshire. Although we do not collect demographic data, the majority of parents will have relatively high disposable income; a minority will own a second property, sometimes abroad.  

There is an enthusiastic group of parents who support sport actively on the touchline and in some cases at tournaments (particularly lacrosse) as well.