Category: Junior School

12th February 2020

Our Year two classmates took part in a science workshop at The Historic Dockyard Chatham this week as part of this term’s topic on materials. The six to seven-year-olds were set out on a fact-finding mission, completing fun and exciting challenges with friends. Their first task, ‘What’s in the bag?’ saw pupils investigate a selection…

28th January 2020

Junior children at Gad’s Hill School celebrated Chinese New Year with a visit from a classmate’s parent, who treated them to traditional gifts and dishes. Mrs Shan Zhang, from Higham, joined the 8-9 year-olds to talk about how people all over the world mark the festival, which signifies a fresh start at the end of…

24th September 2019

J3 classmates created their very own woodland workmate during a regular outdoor learning session in Gad’s Forest School. The seven to eight-year olds have been reading ‘The Hodgeheg’, written by master author of animal adventures, Dick King-Smith. Together, the cohort has really enjoyed getting into character and looking at setting descriptions, so what better way…

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 July 2019

Our Y6 classmates bid each other a fond farewell for the summer at a celebration assembly. Parents were invited to see their children perform a series of heart-warming songs and witty poems about their time at Gad’s so far. Every child recounted a memory or funny anecdote about school life – all of which were…

25th June 2019

A Gad’s Hill student was awarded first place in a regional ballroom contest, just over a year after starting dancing. Autumn Hansford, 9, from Shorne, took the title of best Under 10 Ballroom dancer at the ProAm Champions event in Brentwood, Essex earlier this month. Competing in the youngest category, Autumn competed in 70 heats…

24th June 2019

Our J5 classmates faced-up to a monster of a challenge in their Year six art transition lesson. The nine-to-ten-year-olds were tasked with designing and creating their very own 3D monster, in just one hour! Art teacher, Miss Rachael Baker, said: “Moving-up a year can be exciting but daunting. “I wanted the children to stretch themselves…

20th June 2019

Beatty House was named overall winner at this year’s sports day but Wellington and Haig members took the top spots for individual athleticism. The combined scores for all track and field events secured the reds’ win with 357 points, followed by Haig with a total of 303 and Wellington with 277 points. Year six students,…

19th June 2019

Our Year five classmates dodged the rain but still got wet in an outdoor maths lesson today. Working together, they used measuring jugs to convert millilitres to litres. Visual mathematics helps children see concepts which in-turn aids understanding – by the looks on their faces, it certainly seems the nine to ten-year-olds practical al fresco…

18th June 2019

Our Junior classes worked together to solve problems on an enrichment day of team building activities. The motto of the day quickly became ‘there’s no “I” in team’ as children were faced with mental and physical challenges such as a blindfolded maze bridge-making in the Forest School and school grounds. Head of Juniors, Mrs Cullen…