News from the Junior School Classrooms
Extracts from our weekly newsletters from the Junior School classrooms before the transition to remote learning.
Extracts from our weekly newsletters from the Junior School classrooms before the transition to remote learning.
Junior School parents receive a weekly newsletter outlining activities, events and individual achievements. We have reproduced some photographs and snippets from this week's newsletter for the wider school community to enjoy.
On Thursday 27 February, our Year 5/6 netball squad travelled to St Swithun’s for the regional heat of the national IAPS girls’ netball competition. The early snow flurries that morning soon gave way to some sunshine and blue sky which helped warm hands and hearts. The team were in...
Young mathematicians from local prep and primary schools enjoyed two afternoons of problem-solving at our Year 4 and Year 5 Mathematics Challenge events in January and February. Teams of two, drawn from Year 4 and Year 5, represented their school to take part in a ra...
On 6 February pupils in Years 4 - 6 travelled to the iconic O2 Arena in East London for this year’s performance at the Young Voices concert. After an afternoon of rehearsals to an empty arena, children were very excited when families and friends started to take their seats at 6.00pm and m...
St Gabriel’s Junior School welcomed a special visitor on Monday 13 January, when Meryl Praill, founder of Newbury Soup Kitchen came into morning assembly to talk to our pupils and thank them for their recent donation. The retiring collections from the Carol Concert at St Nicolas...
Armistice Day was remembered with 2 minutes silence in school at 11am and through various activities including Mr Smith's reading of poignant letters sent home by soldiers on the frontline in the Great War, during Monday's Senior School assembly. Our Junior School newsletter thi...
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...