On Friday 25 September St Gabriel’s pupils and staff unable to organise their annual cake sale extravaganza, got the green light to support this worthy charity in a unique and new way, by Going Green for Macmillan. Pupils and teachers displayed all manner of green attire...
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Although our normal summer term Art Exhibition had to be postponed, we have been able to share a little of the wonderful work created by GCSE and A level students on work on social media, albeit not until after the publication of examination results. However, it is difficult to do justice...
Mrs Tyler is very proud of her students as throughout the period of remote teaching they have excelled themselves in their Spanish lessons. They have practised their spoken Spanish during remote sessions with Sarah Leyva, our Mexican language assistant; got to grips with new topics and gr...
The St Gabriel's Virtual Choir was a project run by singing teachers, Ms Hendrickx and Mrs Hayles, in which students were invited to submit their different parts for the song 'Somewhere out there' from the film An American Tail. These parts were then edited and mixed, and the video...
Our annual scholastic essay presentation evening for Year 7 and 8 had to be postponed due to lockdown. However we were delighted to be able to rearrange the event as a series of virtual presentations spread over a number of lunchtime sessions. Mr Smith, Mrs Chapman, Mrs Wright, Mrs Chicke...
Year 13 student Izzi Ryder has balanced her academic studies with competing at a high level in showjumping across the UK and in Europe. She has represented her country on several occasions and has previously qualified for the Horse of the Year Show. Last August, at the age of 17, Izzi...
How did your interest in science develop? When I was a little girl, my big brother, Simon, used to order butterfly eggs and we would watch them hatch into caterpillars, feed them on particular leaves and then metamorphose into delicate little creatures. We also kept tropical fish and used bino...
Congratulations to our talented young chef Selina, Year 9 who impressed judges to be crowned winner at the district final of the Rotary Young Chef competition on 1 February at St Gabriel’s School. Six budding chefs were tasked with creating a healthy three-course meal in under two hours wit...
On 27 January, Year 8 ad Year 9 Mandarin beginners enjoyed a special Mandarin Drama Workshop. Mrs Chaplin equipped the workshop with her professional drama techniques, while Ms Zhang provided linguistic support. Students managed to put their drama and language skills togeth...
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...
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...
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...