Category: News

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…

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…