Month: October 2017

Sports Scholars Special: Part III

26th October 2017

Lower V Sports Scholars As we look back on a half term which has seen us sponsor the Ealing Mini Mile at which a large number of our girls competed and achieved excellent results and a wonderful array of fixtures every week, we rounded off this half term with three of our runners being selected…

Priory Pyrotechnics & Pitshanger Bookshop Prize Giving 2017

25th October 2017

Last Friday 20th October our Parents’ Committee annual fireworks display, Priory Pyrotechnics, once again lit up the early autumn sky over our Ealing grounds. The evening took place at the bottom of the field thus providing St Augustine’s Priory as a dramatic backdrop to the fireworks. Staff, parents and girls manned the stalls, from Priory…

Live portrait painting demo with Anastasia Pollard

24th October 2017

On Tuesday 17th October 2017 Anastasia Pollard came to St Augustine’s Priory to give staff and students a live 4-hour portrait painting demonstration. Anastasia studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Florence Academy of Art. Her work has been seen in the annual exhibitions of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and was previously…

News from the Bursary

20th October 2017

Congratulations to Miss Naylor Many of you will know Miss Naylor, who works in our Bursary as the Finance and Examinations Assistant.  While working at St Augustine’s Priory Miss Naylor has also been studying for her accountancy qualification which she achieved this summer.  This has been an incredible journey for Miss Naylor which she writes…

Preps and Juniors Concert: Simon Mayor and Hilary James

20th October 2017

Miss Westley tells us about the Prep and Junior School’s visit from musical entertainers Simon Mayor and Hilary James on Thursday 19th October, a great way to end Junior Assessment Week: “On Thursday afternoon the girls enjoyed a lively afternoon of music presented by Hilary James and Simon Mayor. Everybody sang along to lots of…

Prep III travel with Barnaby Bear

20th October 2017

A visit to the Amersham Field Centre Learning about Geography and the natural world takes many forms.  Whether you are studying a map, learning about the tides and the shoreline, analysing the imports and exports of a given country or examining population distribution, it is important to retain the sense of discovery and excitement that…

Prep II and Prep III learn about Diwali

19th October 2017

The Hindu Festival of Lights Prep II Form Teacher, Mrs Costello, tells us about how Prep II and Prep III learnt about the Hindu festival, Diwali, which takes place this week and celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance and hope over despair. ‘This week Preps II and III…

Our Form III Accelerated Readers

19th October 2017

Girls are motivated by 100% scores in Accelerated Reader quizzes Form III girls Naomi Nnatu, Katherine O’Neill and Mattie Green all scored 100% in the Accelerated Reader quizzes they took recently. Funded by our wonderful Parents’ Committee, the Accelerated Reader quizzes not only give pupils immediate online feedback on their reading but build reports that…

Our Artists and Photographers

19th October 2017

Mashan Marri and Isabella Ju of Lower VI write about their recent trip into central London. ‘On Wednesday 4th October the Upper V and Priory 6 Art and Photography students went to visit two galleries: The Photographer’s Gallery and Jerwood Space – we were also lucky enough to spontaneously fit in another gallery visit to…

Macbeth at Watermans Arts Centre

19th October 2017

Shakespeare Schools Festival The national Shakespeare Schools Festival provides a valuable opportunity for pupils to work on a production, whether through acting or backstage, bring it to fruition and perform it in front of an audience.  This year the St Augustine’s Priory production is Macbeth and will be performed at the Watermans Arts Centre on…

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