Month: June 2018
Women’s Wellness Week
An inaugural event. Women’s Wellness Week, held last week at St Augustine’s Priory, was an incredible initiative, drawing together our community in awareness raising, discovery and education about how to make choices for a healthy and fulfilling life. To that end we started the week with a powerful talk by Mrs Ransome (see article in…
Women’s Wellness Week at St Augustine’s Priory
They say “take care of your body as it is the only place you will live in”. In similar spirit, St Augustine’s Priory celebrated Women’s Wellness Week which brought together issues regarding our bodies and minds and how to care for them. Students were invited to talks, workshops and activities that initiated conversations regarding nutrition,…
Junior Film Night
Great support for Fundación Anpuy. Miss De Lahitte reports that the recent Modern Languages Junior Film Night, held on Friday 8th June was a roaring success, raising a marvellous £174.10 which will go towards sponsoring the education of Nicolas, the boy we are proud to be sponsoring in Argentina through Fundación Anpuy in Salta, Argentina. …
Association: 2008 Leavers return
A ten year reunion. We are all looking forward to the Association Day on Saturday 30th June when current and past pupils, parents and staff will join together to enjoy a wonderful day of entertainment in our grounds. A foretaste of this day was held on Sunday 13th May when the leavers of Summer 2008…
Nursery and Prep I help out
Answering a call from Fairyland. Nursery and Prep I gathered in the Prep Meadow on Tuesday 19th June where Miss Keane asked them all to solve something that was puzzling her. Can you help me? Mystery footprints! On one of the benches near a tree were some golden, glittery, footprints. ‘Whose footprints are these?’ Miss…
Blooming in June…
Ealing in Bloom competition. Tuesday 19th June saw us welcome three judges from the Ealing in Bloom competition. We were delighted to be able to show them around our grounds and tell them about all the wonderful things that happen there! Mrs Knowles together with Nancy from Lower I, Alice from Upper I, Ivy and…
Prep II Prepare Salads!
A Healthy Lifestyle. Following on from Women’s Wellness Week last week Prep II are really taking to heart the issues addressed. Ms Daya here reports on their work so far… ‘As part of our Healthy Lifestyles topic in Science, Prep II prepared salads in their lesson this week. They brought in a selection of their…
Sports Days…
Seniors and Nursery triumph. Senior Sports Day began the week in sunshine and a medley of record breakers and personal bests. The Nursery pupils in their sports day on Tuesday were not so concerned with breaking school records or achieving personal but they had a wonderful time! Ms Hales reports that ten school records were…
Share the Journey
Walking in solidarity. Every year thousands of people around the world flee their home countries in a bid to reach safety. They risk separation from loved ones, great danger and sometimes death. Next week we will be finding out about and sharing some of these journeys. Through CAFOD’s ‘Share the Journey’ campaign we will be…
Lower I and Upper I go on safari
A visit to Woburn Safari Park. Ms Gambrill, together with Lower I and Upper I, had an adventurous time on Wednesday 13th June when they travelled to the wilds of Woburn. Ms Gambrill takes up the story… ‘Lower and Upper I had one of their last adventures of the year and travelled to Woburn…