Keep up to date with the latest news and events in and around our school.
Year 9 Mandarin Beginners enjoyed a special cross-curriculum session on Monday 9 December: a fashion show in Mandarin! With environmental protection in mind, students made their outfit with old wrapping paper, bean bags and textiles with full creativity within a short time span of twenty min...
Interview with Mrs Rachel Dadds, Head of Psychology Can you tell us a little about your education? Following my A Levels in Psychology, Biology, English Literature and Art, I went straight to University College London (UCL) to study a BSc (Hons) in Anthropology. Upon graduating, I took a...
On 27 November, Christine Rollier, Senior Research Scientist, in Vaccinology at the Oxford Vaccine Group came in to talk with St Gabriel’s Senior School pupils about vaccine immunology. She set the scene by talking about the immune system and progressed to pre-clinical vaccine developmen...
St Gabriel's young chefs excel at the local heat of the Rotary Young Chef competition. Charlotte and Selina (Year 9), and Mollie (Year 8) competed in the Rotary Young Chef competition, held at Newbury College, on Saturday 16 November. Each student had to independently plan, pr...
Earlier this month textile artist, Kate Findlay delivered a workshop to Year 8 students. She showed the girls examples of her work, which includes animals and landscapes. Kate creates beautiful layered work, using hand dyed fabrics, which she dyes herself. She uses applique to j...
The whole of Year 7 took part ina 'Play in a Day' performance. The girls worked incredibly hard over the period of one day to produce a 30-minute performance based upon the title ‘The Elves and the Christmas Chaos’. The story started in the North Pole at Santa HQ. The North Po...
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 Friday 8 November Katie Lusby a representative from the internationally renowned theatre company Punchdrunk came into school to run a workshop for our A level Theatre Studies students and Upper School Drama Scholars. They explored how to develop Punchdrunk's immersive style of th...
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...
Well done to 10G who raised over £115 for Above Water (Charity Number 74593) from their Halloween Cake Sale - it was rather spooky to see the cakes were spirited away so swiftly! Above Water is a charity which sends trained and qualified lifeguards into schools to teach wat...