Our music scholars and GCSE Music students have benefited from another trip to the Corn Exchange, courtesy of the Newbury Spring Festival* - this time to see 'Figo', a quartet who specialise in Baroque music, using period instruments and techniques to bring to life the music of composers wor...
Congratulations to the 29 Year 10 Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award candidates who passed the expedition element of their award at the weekend. The weather was perfect for walking not too hot, not too cold and not too wet for the 5 teams as they started at 10.30am from the Chase in Woolton...
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As part of their PSHE programme Year 9 & 10 tutor groups were active in the community in May, visiting local care homes, litter picking in Victoria Park and organising activities in a local school. 10S visited Thatcham Court Care Home which specialises in caring for people wit...
GCSE Product Design, Business and Computer Science students from Year 10 donned high vis jackets and safety glasses to enjoy an exclusive tour of the manufacturing facilities at the Mini plant in Oxford. The students experienced first-hand the logistics and equipment used to manage a...
Senior music scholars and three enthusiastic musicians from the junior school went to the Corn Exchange on Friday 17 May to watch a jazz group called the Tom Millar Quartet, who played a set of their own original jazz pieces. The lunchtime concert was part of the Newbury Spring Festival. There...
On Wednesday 15 May, Year 10 GCSE Business students participated in the inaugural Student Business Competition, set up for Year 12 students in West Berkshire by local business people. As part of their mission to reduce the use of single use plastic water bottles in school, the team se...
Debating clubs for all year groups are co-ordinated by Mrs Archer. This week marked the end of a particularly successful year for Year 13 and in particular for Rowan in her role as Debating Prefect. As part of a farewell party for our Y13 debaters, Rowan was presented with an inscribed gavel, t...
Araminta (Y8) represented the St Gabriel’s Equestrian Team at Stonar on Saturday in the NSEA Inter Schools 80cm ODE. Minty and Freckles posted a personal best Dressage score of 26.3 followed by excellent Show Jumping and Cross Country phases to finish 3rd individually and qualify for the NSEA...
Congratulations to Milly Ducker and Olivia Clark who recently performed in ‘Spring Equinox’ at Newbury Corn Exchange theatre on Tuesday 19th March. Run by Ace Dance Studios, the event is a showcase of the very best in dance that Newbury’s young performers have to offer. Milly and O...
Year 7 & 8 team win best robot design!
As part of their studies of material culture, Year 10 and 13 classicists recently took a trip to London to visit some ancient artefacts. Year 13 began the day at the reconstructed temple to Mithras, a Roman shrine which was discovered in London after the second world war. The museum is designed t...
Congratulations to our Year 10 Maths team.