NEWS & EVENTS
Once again, we have chosen to share our Christmas card for 2025 digitally, and redirect the funds typically spent on posting physical Christmas cards towards a special donation to our local foodbank.
This year, we took time to explore which food items are most needed and selected those essentials accordingly, alongside a variety of festive Christmas treats. Our Sixth Form girls volunteer at the foodbank each week, helping to weigh and sort donations, and they were thrilled to deliver such a plentiful haul this year. This is a cause they care about deeply, and being able to offer these extra gifts and essentials at this time of year is a source of great pride for us all.
On behalf of the entire Queen’s Gate community, we wish you health and happiness throughout 2026, and keep an eye out for the Christmas cards landing in your inboxes!
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Take a look at our previous newsletters and catch up on all the amazing things we’ve been up to this term in the ‘News & Events’ section of our website (link in bio).
After a long hiatus, The Log made a triumphant return at the end of this term. Carrying its traditional name, our School magazine was shared with families to enjoy over the Christmas break. With photos, reports and a special feature on the Bright Young Things, The Log is a celebration of all that passed here at Queen`s Gate over the 2024/2025 academic year. Happy reading to all our QG families!
From imagination to icing! Congratulations to our Junior School winner Alexia and Senior School winner Isabelle, whose festive designs from our annual Christmas Cake Design Competition were transformed into stunning real cakes by QG old girl, Nicky Tesler. A truly sweet celebration of creativity!
Last Friday, girls from Reception to Year 2 took over St Stephen’s Church to perform their much-anticipated Nativity play for an audience of family and friends. After much time spent memorising lines, fine-tuning songs, and attempting choreography that occasionally resembled organised chaos, it all came together in a wonderfully entertaining show. From shepherds who forgot their sheep to angels who nearly lost their halos, the girls delivered a festive performance full of charm, humour, and just the right amount of unpredictability - exactly what a Nativity play should be!
We love welcoming members of Age UK Kensington and Chelsea every Friday to have lunch with our Lower Sixth girls, and this week we were delighted to celebrate with them over a Festive lunch complete with crackers, Christmas music and a roast dinner. This initiative is just one part of our extensive Charities and Outreach programme here at Queen`s Gate and is a highlight of the QG week.
Our Year 8 students recently visited Brompton Cemetery, one of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’, for a Gothic literature–focused tour. They explored notable graves, Gothic architectural features, and Victorian attitudes toward death to support their upcoming descriptive writing assessment.
Year 3 and 4 workshop at V&A - Pattern, Shape & Me
Year 3 and 4 students were given opportunities to learn through direct engagement with museum artefacts at the V&A last week. They enjoyed a guided tour of the Islamic Middle East gallery, followed by a hands-on session where they created their own tiles. Geometry and tessellation were explored during this creative process.
