Month: July 2017

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

14th July 2017

Silver and Bronze expeditions The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award has been running for many years here at St Augustine’s Priory, enabling students to achieve their Bronze, Silver and Gold awards.  Here are the latest reports from the Silver and Bronze Award groups. Silver Award, South Downs, Monday 3rd – Wednesday 5th July 2017 It was…

Celebrating Life

14th July 2017

Praying for Peace This year has seen some wonderful events at St Augustine’s Priory – the Arts Evening, the celebration Masses for our First Holy Communicants and Confirmation candidates, the Be Spirited Day, the skiing visit to Italy, the English Summer Garden Party, the school production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, the Sports Awards, the…

End of Summer Term 2017

13th July 2017

“Dream big, be determined and most importantly – enjoy yourself”, Mrs Collins, Interim Head teacher. It’s hard to believe the end of the school year has come round yet again; events such as Roald Dahl Day, the High 5 Netball tournament and the European Day of Languages last September are still fresh in our minds!…

Miss Slight and the Nursery

13th July 2017

A fond farewell In September 2015 Miss Cherie Slight joined us as Nursery teacher.   Since then she, together with her Nursery team, has guided her young charges through the seasons of the year, through the Church seasons of Lent, Easter and Christmas and has seen her pupils progress and grow.  On Wednesday 12th July, the…

A Level Geography Independent Investigations

13th July 2017

Fieldwork in and around Aberystwyth, Wales Fieldwork is an essential component of Geography.  At St Augustine’s Priory pupils learn early; for example, Upper II’s fieldwork in Amersham is excellent ground work for the expeditions they will participate in further up the school.  On Saturday 8th July fieldwork took centre stage as Priory 6 Geographers travelled…

‘A Stitch in Time’ at our Arts Festival

11th July 2017

A community embroidery project During our Arts Festival, on Wednesday 28th June, a wonderful display and demonstration of the creativity achieved throughout the year by our students, one of the displays was of our ‘A Stitch in Time’ project, started in 2015.  We now have some examples of finished kneelers on display, and at the…

Upper II Moving Up Mass

7th July 2017

As we draw closer to the end of term, we celebrate all the girls who are moving up in the school.  This is a particularly important transition for Upper II, who will join the Senior school in September this year.  As the girls are well prepared to begin life in the Senior school, the transition…

Our Escape Room is open and it’s ‘the best ever’!

7th July 2017

The clock is ticking… St Augustine’s Priory in Ealing have turned their cellar into a real life, fully immersive Escape Room for the last week of the summer term.   Inspired by a school trip to live escape room ‘clueQuest’, Mr Dellow, Head of ICT, made big plans to get the girls code breaking and team…

 Big Sister not-so-Little Sister

7th July 2017

  Our Big Sister, Little Sister programme has reached the end of another academic year.  Our continuous Big Sister, Little Sister programme lays a firm emphasis on the community spirit of St Augustine’s Priory when, each September, our new Senior girls in Form III meet our Sixth Form.  Yes, there are regular group meetings, but…

A Psychedelic Summer Concert

7th July 2017

Last night, Thursday 6th July, saw our first concert to take place in the newly refurbished hall and also the last concert of this academic year.  The music played harked back to yesteryear as perennial favourites were performed. Hits from Queen, The Beatles and Abba filled the hall (and grounds around it) as the school’s…

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