This week, four of our pupils had the special honour of decorating the Gomer Christmas tree for the annual St Mary’s Church Alverstoke Tree Festival, which opens tomorrow. The festival is always a beautiful event and this year promises to be no different. The church will be filled with creativity, colour and community spirit. Benjamin, El ...

In our net and wall games, the children have been focusing on improving their accuracy through a range of fun, skill-based activities. They have shown fantastic concentration and teamwork as they practised controlling shots and aiming with greater precision. In gymnastics, Year 3 have explored a variety of shapes and jumps, working hard t ...

We hope everyone has had a lovely start to Advent and if you are opening an Advent calendar this year, we hope today’s window brought a smile! This season is always a special time in school, filled with anticipation, reflection, and a growing sense of excitement as we move towards Christmas. Last week, as part of Year 4’s RE learning on th ...

What a brilliant afternoon have had at our KA Gomer Christmas Fair! The whole school felt wonderfully festive and it was heartening to see so many families, friends and members of our community joining us to celebrate the start of the festive season. We also always love to see former students too. The children were fantastic. They loved h ...

Today, our International Ambassadors worked with Mrs Mawby to create this year’s Christmas decorations for the Gomer St Mary’s Christmas Tree Festival. The theme celebrates our wonderful Gomer community and the languages spoken by our children and their families. To reflect this diversity, the Ambassadors explored the 11 languages recorde ...

In Year 6, we place great importance on developing an understanding of mathematical concepts: not just learning a method, but knowing why it works. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through a combination of manipulatives and pictorial representations, which help us visualise a problem before moving on to more abstract calc ...

Today, further to the letter we sent you last week, we have used our assembly to acknowledge White Ribbon Day. We used White Ribbon materials to explore what it means to ‘speak up’ when things don’t feel right. We are teaching our students that they have the power to change culture by challenging harmful ‘banter’ a ...

Friday of last week welcomed us with a ‘crisp’ and beautifully sunny morning. This was the perfect backdrop for our autumn term Groundforce Day. Coats and hats were certainly needed! Children and their adults rolled up their sleeves and got to work across our grounds, making a tremendous impact. From clearing, planting and tidy ...

We are incredibly lucky to have such remarkable places of historical interest right on our doorstep and yesterday our Year 6 pupils made the most of that opportunity with a visit to the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Wrapped up warm, the children met at the ferry and even squeezed in a quick stop at the sundial to learn ...

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Silver Artsmark Award by Arts Council England. The assessors praised our rich and inclusive arts curriculum, our work with global majority artists such as Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui , our expanded music offer (including every child learning an instrument!), dedicated arts lessons ...