Carols at St Albans Abbey

  Yesterday was the annual Abbots Hill Carol Service at St Albans Abbey. Despite getting to the Abbey about an hour early I only managed to get ...
December 04, 2015

Abbots Hill School Christmas Fair

We’ve moved on from just having a stall at Maddies school fair to setting up a pop up studio mostly so people can have photos taken with ...
November 29, 2015

Abbots Hill Sports Day

Another year, another sports day although this year without the Olympics theme of last year. Same events though and despite a good performance from ...
June 26, 2013

The Lion King

One of the problems of private schools is the stupid amounts of holidays the children get – 20 weeks a year off! Thankfully there are a myriad ...
April 05, 2013

A grade student

Maddie just got her latest school report and we are delighted with it. A great improvement all round with A’s (achievement) and 1’s ...
March 22, 2013

Teacher’s Pet

I’m not sure why it’s happened but all of a sudden Maddie is super keen to do additional project work on top of her normal homework. It ...
February 05, 2013

Nativity

As Maddie is now in year 2 we got reserved seats at the front which was great.Unfortunately cameras were banned at Maddie’s nativity play ...
December 04, 2012

Homework

Now when I was a kid growing up I don’t think I got any homework until secondary school unlike Maddie who has had some form of homework pretty ...
October 08, 2012

Playing in the woods

With Mette being away this week I was on school run duty. Maddie has taken to playing in the woods after school with her friends (seen here with ...
March 04, 2011

First day at Abbots Hill

Funny how things work out. When Maddie didn’t get accepted into reception at the school she was at, settled in to and only 5 mins walk away (hey ...
September 09, 2010