A Date for your Diary! The Parents’ Committee is holding another wonderful evening on Friday 16th March. ‘A Quizzical Evening’ will test your ability to mine the darkest recesses of your memories for those items of trivia you have stashed away for that rainy day. What is the capital of Iceland? How many children did…
A Time of Transformation. Lent is a time of transformation, when we strive, with God’s help, to undertake the journey that is Lent with a pure heart and a spirit of compassion. We thought we would share this prayer with you today to take with you on this journey to Easter.
Did you know that “whatevs” has entered the English dictionary? You probably knew that “mankini” is used frequently enough to have become a “real” word but did you know that words, which have evolved from texting, have formally been acknowledged? Do you use “Truthiness (n): the quality of seeming or being felt to be true,…
A School Community. The Lent Half Term began, as always, with our school’s Feast Day on Friday 9th February. Originally held on the Feast Day of Reverend Mother, this is a tradition which reaches back many years into the history of St Augustine’s Priory, when the school was in France. At the beginning of the…
EYFS Forest School adventure Our Forest School is very popular – covering many aspects of the curriculum and ensuring that children enjoy and take advantage of all that our grounds have to offer. On Tuesday 6th February the Nursery and Prep I set out into the grounds to go on a bear hunt. Miss Keane,…
Women’s Right to Vote To mark the centenary of women’s right to vote 1918, just before half term Upper I took part in an experiment designed to demonstrate what life may have been like! Miss Gambrill, Form Teacher Upper I, reports on the subsequent events: ‘To commemorate the centenary of women gaining the vote, Upper…
Tea Time for T-Pex If you would like a career in veterinary science, or yearn to be a zookeeper or a biologist, here at St Augustine’s Priory we can certainly assist with your career choices by enabling you to have hands-on experience with some of our own livestock. We now have a thriving farm with…
Ignatian Spirituality This year Ash Wednesday falls during our Half Term. Mrs McDermott, Head of Religious Studies, draws our attention to a website which invites us to reflect on each day of Lent as we go through the Lenten journey. This is a way of praying the Examen throughout Lent with materials provided by Fr…
Splendid Productions Antigone Workshop. Drama is a wonderfully creative subject and allows pupils the opportunity to take part in some exciting workshops. Here, Ms Brown, Head of Drama, talks about the Splendid Productions workshop on Antigone, one of the texts studied. ‘On Saturday 27th January, Splendid Productions theatre company director, Kerry Frampton, delivered a workshop on Jean Anouilh’s Antigone to…
English Literature to the fore. English Literature is full of glorious gems – from Shakespeare to Austen, from Chaucer to Hilary Mantel, books enrich all our lives. But this term, Form III have explored even deeper. Form III have been studying what is possibly the oldest surviving long poem in Old English: Beowulf. Its date…
