Category: News

7th August 2019

Gad’s Hill GCSE student James Slater, 16, will represent his country in the Angling World Championships in October, after winning gold at the Home Nations final this summer. James, from Hartley, and his Junior squad finished top of the league tables in the national tournament in Ireland and will go on to compete against teams…

6th June 2019

Gad’s history lessons are dedicated to D-Day this week, to honour the soldiers who died at the Battle of Normandy. Junior and Senior students are learning more about the landing operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Classmates have also been finding out about…

8th May 2019

Ahead of today’s Wellington charity football tournament, Junior and Senior House members spent yesterday morning finding out more about life at Gad’s. Head of Kindergarten and Junior Wellington, Mrs Ravinder Sandhu, said: “House assemblies are a great way for our students to get to know each other better. “The cohort took the time to talk…

29th April 2019

A Gad’s student entertained more than 100 local people at a musical showcase in Higham – before inviting them to try the school’s flagship instrument for themselves. 11-year-old Sophie Fry, who lives in the village, performed a solo recital on Marimba for the members of HiARA (Higham Active Retirement Association) at the memorial hall. Invited…

12th April 2019

Watch our students talk about life at Gad’s this Sunday, 14th April, on BBC One at 11am. Gad’s features in the BBC’s new ‘Walks of Life’ series, which explores the cultural and spiritual narratives that can be found throughout the Great British countryside. Presenter Mehreen Baig walks in the footsteps of the county’s most famous…

23rd November 2018

Gad’s Hill students scaled the school’s brand new 9.1m climbing wall today – with six-year-old Scarlett Curtis the first to reach the top. Kindergarten pupil, and experienced climber, Scarlett, joined classmates and Juniors and Seniors to help celebrate the launch of the impressive installation. The wall is the result of two years’ fundraising by the school’s…

23rd November 2018

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… thank you to the Rowswell family for kindly donating our beautiful tree, decorations and lights – and thank you to the youngest member of the family for helping to decorate it!🎄 #GadsFamily

9th November 2018

Tonight sees the opening show of ‘Snow Queen’ at the Brook Theatre, Chatham – featuring one of our very own Seniors. Caitlin, of Shell R, plays several parts in this weekend’s production, a tale of love and loss in a kingdom of ice. 11-year-old Caitlin has been a member of the Play on Words Theatre…

8th November 2018

Independent Higham school, Gad’s Hill, has joined forces with the University for the Creative Arts, recently named ‘Modern University of the Year 2019’ by The Times’ Good University Guide, to train and inspire the creative talents of its students. The University for the Creative Arts (UCA), which also holds the title of the ‘Number 1…

7th November 2018

Our Year 10 Food and Nutrition students made chocolate ravioli today. Working from scratch, the cohort demonstrated how they were able to use a specialist machine to develop the elasticity of the gluten in the pasta and to give it the correct bite and texture. The lesson helped build on their existing theoretical and practical…