On a sunny Friday morning, both Year 12 tutor groups organised an Easter egg hunt for Year 7 – Year 9 to help raise money for the Cyclone Idai Emergency Fund. We were delighted to raise in excess of £50.00 for this worthy cause. All the participants spent the mornin...
Fizz 'n' Mix is a bath bomb company created by our Year 12 Young Enterprise team. Over the course of their first year of sixth form, the team have been meeting weekly, initially to generate ideas and plan but thereafter to sell and look at ways to grow their business. The team have...
As part of their studies of material culture, Year 10 and 13 classicists recently took a trip to London to visit some ancient artefacts. Year 13 began the day at the reconstructed temple to Mithras, a Roman shrine which was discovered in London after the second world war. The museum is designed t...
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Senior Spring Concert.
On Tuesday 20 November, girls attending Maryam Khorassani's talk on her journey to becoming a barrister, benefited not only by gleaning an understanding of the routes into the legal profession but also learning from Maryam's resilience along the way. Several maj...
On Monday 19 November, we were delighted to welcome Dr Richard Penny, from the University of Southampton, to work with Year 12 students on research skills for their Extended Project Qualification(EPQ). The University of Southampton are keen supporters of the EPQ and Dr Penny shared evidence of...
On Monday 12 November, 4 Sixth form students went to Highdown School, Reading to take part in this year's UK Mathematics Trust (UKMT) Senior Maths Challenge. This encourages reasoning, logic, deduction and the use of basic techniques to solve a variety of problems. The teams...
Our annual celebration of Harvest Festival took place in assembly on Monday 8 October and Reverend Joy Mawdesley from St Nicolas' Church, Newbury led the celebration with an inspiring talk on the mustard seed, linking its growth from small beginnings with faith. As always our children took pa...
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We were delighted to host a talk on Friday 5 October from Baroness Pidding, a member of the House of Lords. Baroness Pidding's talk to Year 11 -13 students about the work and role of the House of Lords was followed by a question and answer session on various aspect...
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Three days after the end of the summer term, eleven Sixth Form students, Miss Pearmine and our World Challenge leader, Alex, flew to Borneo in Southeast Asia to spend four weeks travelling, volunteering and trekking. When we arrived in the south of Malaysian Borneo, the first difference we noticed w...
St Gabriel’s is thrilled to announce excellent results achieved by our A level students this year, 81% achieved A* - B grade, with over a half attaining places at Russell Group universities. As well as other top universities such as Loughborough, Lancaster and Royal...
On Tuesday, 1 May 2018 the Young Enterprise team, Montague Jewellery, went to the County Final at Oracle's Business Conference Centre in Reading.