Portraits Inspired by Modigliani This term Year 6 have been focusing on Portraits. The children learnt about proportions, and what to focus on while drawing a portrait. They focused on every detail while drawing a face and paying extra attention to the eyes. The children started to use cross...
On Wednesday 6 November the Junior School welcomed back Miranda Aston and the ever popular Buddy from the NSPCC, the UK’s leading children’s charity, to assembly. In September, they came in to school talk to pupils about the Speak Out Stay Safe programme, and they returned for a special...
The weekly Junior School Newsletter, emailed to parents, outlines some of the exciting work taking place each week in the Junior School. Snippets from recent newsletters are shared below. Reception - Graphemes, Phonemes & Digraphs Do you know what a grapheme is? What about a phoneme? Or...
Recently Kevin Gaskell visited St Gabriel’s to talk to pupils, parents and staff about Ocean 5, their fund raising for the Plastic Soup Foundation and the challenges they will face taking part in one of the world’s greatest physical challenges, the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge...
St Gabriel’s new School Council hosted a formidable cake sale in support of Macmillan on Friday 27 September. Thanks to everyone for their generous donations of cakes. There were delicious delights for everyone to purchase and a celebration of our 90th birthday pr...
Miranda Aston from the NSPCC, the UK’s leading children’s charity, received a warm welcome when she came in to share their ‘Speak out. Stay safe’ message (a nationwide programme for every primary-school-aged child in the UK) with Junior School pupils this week. Miranda, bough...
Well done to our Year 6 Girls Hockey Team who won the first medals of the school year at Portsmouth Grammar School’s tournament in September. Congratulations go to Poppy, Kara, Zara, Sophia, Sophie, Calista and Sienna.
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To mark the end of David Wilson Homes’ Building Buddies Award, the staff and Year 6 pupils were presented with a trophy to draw the academic year long project to a close. Year 6 were part of the bespoke scheme and the recent award ceremony was to celebrate being the first school in t...
Year 1 enjoyed a fabulous trip to The Living Rainforest in Hampstead Norreys, which linked with their learning on Bangladesh. They were treated to two tours titled 'Amazing Adaptations' and 'Edible Rainforest', where they learnt lots of interesting facts about...
On Monday 10 June, Year 4 headed off to Lulworth Cove for their first overnight trip. The weather forecast was none too brilliant, but everyone donned their waterproofs and set off. The picnic lunch on the hillside at Durdle Door was great, but the rain began as they walked down to see the...
A fantastic nautical day of RNLI fundraising was enjoyed by Junior School pupils on Friday 17 May. It may have been raining outside but the Junior School felt like it had relocated to the seaside for the day with pesky pirates, marvellous mermaids and cool surf dudes everywhere! The day...
On Thursday afternoon, we took four teams to Newbury Rugby Club to play in the Thatcham Town Ladies & Girls Football tournament. The Year 1&2 team got off to a cautious start but soon gained in confidence and won their last two games with smiles on their faces. Year 3&4 also improved and...