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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Well done to our Under 11 Hockey team who finished as Runners-Up to St Andrews, in the Plate competition at the Berkshire Schools Hockey tournament. The Year 5-6 hockey team enjoyed beautiful sunny weather for their day of hockey at Reading Hockey Club. They showed great teamwork and skill in all th...
Our weekly Junior School Newsletter is normally collated by Mr Dove and shared with parents via our Parent Portal. However, Year 6 took control of the last edition and we feel their articles deserve a wider audience!
Junior Team Gymnastics Competition
Pupils enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year in February, the Junior School learnt about how the festival is celebrated all around the world, with traditions, holidays, fireworks and parties. Year 7 pupils in the Senior School joined in a cultural enrichment lesson where they created calligra...
Pupils perform as Tony Hadley backing singers.