Month: September 2019

20th September 2019

Our GCSE Food and Nutrition students’ cookery skills have been tested this term as they progress to more complex culinary challenges. The Year 10 cohort successfully produced Swiss rolls with little or no cracking – considered a complex task to master by the examination board. The 14-15 year-olds will demonstrate compulsory food preparation key skills…

19th September 2019

Dr Burke attended a graduation ceremony at Canterbury Christ Church University to officially celebrate becoming a Doctor of Education. Gad’s Director of Studies completed the professional doctorate while studying part-time at the university and in her spare time for five years. Dr Burke, who also has a Masters in Education, specialising in Leadership and Management…

18th September 2019

Our Under 13 football team battled through their first inter-school match this week. Read Head of PE, Mr Ben McDowell’s match report: Bethany Vs Gad’s Hill – 16th September 2019 The first U13 football fixture of the season took Gad’s to Bethany School where we won 6-1 this time last year. This time round though…

17th September 2019

The Gad’s Hill Combined Cadet Force was invited to take part in a march to honour soldiers who lost their lives fighting for their country this weekend. The annual Corps Memorial Parade took place on Sunday in Rochester, after a military service in the city’s Cathedral. The Gad’s cohort joined veterans and serving members of…

16th September 2019

A Year eight student is celebrating a successful first grading after enjoying karate as a Gad’s after school activity and joining a local club. Emma, 13, now a member of Shukokai Karate Academy, started the martial art last year and has already achieved a merit in her first grading. Academy Chief Instructor, Sensei Katie Simpson…

13th September 2019

Dressed as their favourite book characters, our Year four classmates, and their teachers, are celebrating Roald Dahl’s birthday with a packed day of themed activities. This morning, the eight to nine-year-olds shared a story in Gad’s library while sipping on hot chocolate, just as Dahl’s loveable bookworm character Matilda did:  “She travelled all over the…

12th September 2019

Gad’s Hill Kindergarten and Junior children learned more about how they will be helping to grow their very own aromatic plants for Harvest celebrations, at an assembly led by their Heads of School. Ten-year-old Junior Heads, Oduware and Peter talked confidently about hydroponics and the implications for global nutrition, which is this term’s Junior school…

11th September 2019

A group of Year nine, ten and eleven boys had fun playing table tennis at lunchtime today – no rackets required!

11th September 2019

Our Year eight classes are competing to be kitchen champions in their first cooking lessons of the term. Yesterday, Mr McDowell’s form prepped, cooked and served cheddar and courgette muffins and today, Ms Bissett’s tutees will take on the cheesy challenge. Department Head, Miss Rachael Baker, said:  “Healthy competition combined with healthy food is always…

10th September 2019

Our youngest children are learning how to express themselves through music and movement during regular workshops with our specialist drama and dance teacher. The two to four-year-olds join Mrs Crowter, of The Amanda-Jayne Stage School, in Gad’s theatre for a weekly session all about music, movement, rhythm and dance. Together, the youngsters take part in…