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16th January 2019

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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…

6th November 2018

Talking about how we feel is a good thing but actually taking part in activities and workshops that bring ‘the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy’ to life are exactly what Gad’s termly wellbeing days are all about. Launched last year, the school organises one day per term where Senior students, often joined by…

16th October 2018

Gad’s Nursery, Kindergarten and Junior children came together to celebrate harvest time, with a concert and presentation of donated food to a local outreach charity. Students as young as three performed songs, poems and readings about what harvest means to them and to people all over the world. The older students presented a series of…

10th July 2018

Gad’s Hill Headmaster Mr David Craggs joined his GCSE students to etch his name on the school roof, as part of a leavers’ tradition, started in 1924. Mr Craggs, 55, has run the school since 2000 and retires at the end of this term. Every summer the Year 11s go up on the old school…

18th June 2018

All the families we welcomed to open day this weekend agreed, the best thing about Gad’s is our children! Students from Reception to Year two were praised for their warm and friendly natures and knowledge of and passion for their school. Headmaster Mr Craggs said: “A happy child who is doing well at school has…