With over 600 competitors and 28 schools, it was a morning of fantastic competition in Vortex, standing long jump, sprint and distance running. All the children performed very well throughout the morning with several heat wins for our team. In this competition times and distances are translated into...
Year 5 visited Bosville in Normandy last week and what a brilliant trip we had! We had chilly but dry weather, a wonderful farm to stay on with horses, goats, chickens, alpacas, llamas and pot-bellied pigs, wonderful food cooked by Olivier our host and chef, lots of exciting trips, lots of French to...
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Junior pupils are always looking for ways to use the 6 Pillars of Character in their lives and Year 5 pupil Penny, showed her caring citizenship by having her long hair cut off for charity last week. She raised almost £650 for Teenage Cancer Trust and donated 37cm of her hair to be made i...
Our Year 6 netball squad were at school early on Thursday 21 March, for a 7am departure to the IAPS National Finals for Netball, at Epsom College, having won the Regional Final in February. They looked impressive in their special hoodies and PTA-funded sports coats. On the court they start...
On Thursday 21 March afternoon, a team of Year 2 children attended a Key Stage 1 Cricket Festival at Park House School. Alongside 5 other schools and ably supported by students from Park House, the children were introduced to four fun games to practise the skills of throwing, catching and batting. A...
Congratulations to our Junior School girls football teams. The Year 5/6 girls football team finished in second place in the West Berkshire 7-a-side tournament held at Park House on Monday 18 March. The defence was particularly strong and did not concede a single goal. Meanwhile our Year...
Year 4 had an amazing learning experience on their visit to Ufton Court as part of their study of the Tudors. The children enjoyed the chance to do jobs such as spinning yarn, grinding flour and making willow fences. They also found it great fun to play Tudor games and...
Kara and Zara from Year 5 report on their experience of Victorian school life. "On Thursday 14 March we went to Reading Museum to experience what it was like in a Victorian school and to look around Reading Museum. We put on Victorian clothes and got told where to sit. The...
Year 1 visited Newbury as part of their study of the local area in their Geography lessons. The children proved excellent spotters of some of the local landmarks around the town including the library, Corn Exchange and St Nicolas' church! During their trip, they were lucky enough...
St Gabriel’s hosted two Chinese New Year celebration events recently for groups of Junior School pupils from Cheam and Ashford Hill Primary schools. Mrs Clarkson visits both schools each week to deliver outreach lessons in Mandarin Chinese and these events have added a c...
Junior School parents receive a weekly newsletter from Mr Dove outlining individual, class and sporting activities and achievements. There are always so many wonderful activities happening around the school we have reproduced a section of the March 8 bulletin below to share with the wider...
On Tuesday 5 March, our World Book Day celebrations got off to an early start with a visit from local author Paul Farrell. Paul’s first book for children, ‘Dragon Slayers’, was published last year and pupils from Years 5 to 8 were invited to hear him talk about his book, hi...