Keep up to date with the latest news and events in and around our school.
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 compet...
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...
Our Year 12 Young Enterprise team Fizz 'n' Mix participated in the West Berkshire Area Showcase Final on Tuesday 7 May where they competed against 7 teams from Downe House, Pangbourne College and St Bartholomew's School. Fizz 'n' Mix's environmentally friendly, no plasti...
Year 5 visited Bosville in Normandy last week and what a brilliant trip we had! We had chilly but dry weather, a wonderful farm to stay on with horses, goats, chickens, alpacas, llamas and pot-bellied pigs, wonderful food cooked by Olivier our host and chef, lots of exciting trips, lots of French to...
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Junior pupils are always looking for ways to use the 6 Pillars of Character in their lives and Year 5 pupil Penny, showed her caring citizenship by having her long hair cut off for charity last week. She raised almost £650 for Teenage Cancer Trust and donated 37cm of her hair to be made i...
On Friday 26 April St Gabriel’s hosted a ‘20 Years of Sixth Form’ book launch. Created by Cosima, Head Girl, during the last academic year, the book celebrates its students' experiences through a mix of narratives, pictures and quotes. Sixth Form staff and stude...