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Junior School parents receive a weekly e-newsletter featuring sporting achievements, Doodle Maths, House Point Certificates and other successes as well as updates on some of the learning taking place in the classrooms. Snippets from the November 26 newsletter are replicated below.
Congratulations to the following pupils who achieved the awards based on their scores in the national Primary Maths Challenge for able mathematicians in Year 5 and 6. Gold: Adam, Nitya Silver: Alexandra , Isabelle Bronze: Luke, Ralph, Nancy
Our team competed in the NSEA Eventer's Challenge Qualifier at Rectory Farm Equestrian on Saturday 31 October. The competition was hosted by Pinewood School and is a qualifier for Hickstead in May 2021. The girls were a credit to St Gabriel’s and did brilliantly! Clare and Olivia we...
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...
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...
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 a riding school pony, Jack...
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...