Category: News

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…

4th June 2018

Our youngest children have released the class frogs back into their natural habitat, after looking after them last term. The classmates enjoyed watching the eggs develop into tadpoles and then transition from froglets to frogs before letting them swim free in the school’s pond in the rose garden.  

30th May 2018

Our female CCF contingent found out about careers in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at a specialised event. The 14-strong cohort, from Years 8 and 9, attended the STEM Careers Showcase at the prestigious Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Together with Head of Careers, Miss Rana, the group learned how to access professions which are…

24th May 2018

Orienteering, team-buidling and fun on the menu for Removes today.

23rd May 2018

Our Year 2 class spent an evening under the stars before bedding-down in the sports hall at our very first Forest School sleepover. Led by Forest School leader Mrs Marshall, the classmates, and teachers, took part in outdoor activities including den building and cooking marshmallows over an open fire. As night drew-in, the children set-up…

22nd May 2018

Our Y6 classmates are enjoying their first full day at an outdoor activities centre in Ashford. The 10 and 11-year-olds are spending five days at Grosvenor Hall outdoor learning centre where they will be taking part in physical challenges and team building exercises. Head of Junior School Mrs Cullen reported the children slept well and had a…

21st May 2018

Our Year six classmates are enjoying the sunshine at their ‘adventure’ home for the next working week. The Removes have travelled to Grosvenor Hall in Ashford for five days of fun, extra-curricular learning and team building activities on the Gad’s annual residential trip. Set in the grounds of a former manor house, the outdoor education…

21st May 2018

Our KG and Junior children are enjoying meeting new born chicks after they have hatched in school. Together with their teachers, a 17-strong group of Juniors collected fertilised eggs from Christmas Tree Farm in Orpington and have been caring for them in an incubator in a classroom. School Council members, from Reception to Year 6,…

18th May 2018

Our youngest children celebrated the forthcoming nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with their very own tea party today. Students from Nursery to Year 2 decorated crowns and cakes and shared fruit and juice on the lawn with classmates. Thank you to our Shell pupils who were on-hand to make sure everybody had enough…