Keep up to date with the latest news and events in and around our school.
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...
A fantastic nautical day of RNLI fundraising was enjoyed by Junior School pupils on Friday 17 May. It may have been raining outside but the Junior School felt like it had relocated to the seaside for the day with pesky pirates, marvellous mermaids and cool surf dudes everywhere! The day...
On Thursday afternoon, we took four teams to Newbury Rugby Club to play in the Thatcham Town Ladies & Girls Football tournament. The Year 1&2 team got off to a cautious start but soon gained in confidence and won their last two games with smiles on their faces. Year 3&4 also improved and...
With over 600 competitors and 28 schools, it was a morning of fantastic competition in Vortex, standing long jump, sprint and distance running. All the children performed very well throughout the morning with several heat wins for our team. In this competition times and distances are translated into...
Year 12 student Izzi has achieved a place in the Team GB Equestrian, U18 Junior Nations Cup Team. After trials in Chepstow, Izzi had to perform well to impress the selectors who were there to check progress across three days of competition, over the jumps. On the first two days she competed over 1.3...
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...