Keep up to date with the latest news and events in and around our school.
To celebrate National Poetry Day on 1 October St Gabriel's ran a poetry competition. This year the chosen theme was ‘Vision’ and pupils from year 3 - 13 - and staff members submitted poems for an anthology of writing. Year 8 pupils chose to write their o...
Mia, Year 9, has always been passionate about horses and took her first riding lesson aged 5. However, it was not until she was 9 that her interest really took off and lessons saw her quickly become an advanced young rider, winning show jumping classes on her little riding school pony, Ja...
On Friday 9 October, Year 7 pupils enjoyed an adventure day in the woods on the grounds of St Gabriel's. The aim of the day was to build collaborative skills and have fun too. Some of the girls have shared their favourite aspects. I most enjoyed the den building because although...
We were delighted to welcome Dr Rebecca Dennis to the Science Department at the start of the Autumn Term. We took the time to interview her to find out more about her passion for Biology and her desire to encourage natural curiosity and lateral thinking in her students. You...
Our Harvest Festival celebration welcomed the Reverend Joy Mawdesley from St Nicolas' Church, Newbury, who did a fantastic job of leading both Junior and Senior School assemblies, on Monday 5 October with prayers and readings from pupils. The assemblies, delivered via Team...
Junior School parents receive a weekly newsletter by email. A selection of the articles in the 27 September edition have been edited and shared below.
Olivia A (Y12) and Clare McG (Y8) represented St Gabriel's in the Schools Equestrian Games qualifier at Crown Farm last weekend. Clare finished 3rd, ending on her dressage score, following a lovely double clear in her section on Saturday. Olivia finished fourth in her secti...
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...
Mollie Shay, year 9, has had an excellent set of results since the resumption of the golfing season. She has had her handicap halved on the back of wins in both junior and senior competitions at Newbury and Crookham GC. In a recent senior competition she managed to achieve the lowest score with a...
St Gabriel's welcomed pupils back in to school on 7 September. To support the safe return of all pupils booklets on Junior & Senior School arrangements were created to provide guidance on how the School will operate in the Autumn Term.. Junio...
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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...
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As with the A levels last week, we are delighted that the results achieved by our Year 11 pupils this year. The ongoing controversy around the grades that have been awarded should in no way take away from what has been nearly two years of hard work, and more recent uncertainty for all our Year 11...