A day of insights. As a follow-up to Women’s Wellness Week, on Thursday 21st June, Lower V and Lower VI visited Imperial College to the Hammersmith Medical Research Centre. This experience enabled girls to seriously consider STEM careers, but also emphasised the importance of being aware of our bodies and wellbeing. Aditi Jadhav, Lower VI,…
Young People’s Poetry Competition 2018. The English Department has announced some amazing news! St Augustine’s Priory Form III pupils have swept first, second and third places in the Year 7 category of the Young People’s Poetry Competition at the Chiswick Book Festival. First Prize in the Year 7 category has been awarded to Naomi Nnatu,…
An international opportunity. The St Augustine’s Priory travel scholarships contribute towards enabling our girls to gain valuable experience overseas. Our travel scholars this year are Priory 6 pupils Portia Laryea-Adu and Ljiljana Krneta. Their travels will be taking them far and wide and they will be undertaking work in very different countries. Here they tell…
A puzzling challenge. Mr Dellow, Head of e-Learning and ICT, and his team embarked on another challenge this year. He takes up the story, ‘After the success of last year’s Escape Room, it was decided that a follow-up was required. This year saw a change of the format as, instead of being locked in a…
Studying ‘The Duchess of Malfi’. Studying Webster’s ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ for A Level, Banu Ali, Priory 6, reports on the recent visit of English Literature students to see a production by the RSC in Stratford. ‘On Friday 15th June, the Lower VI English Literature students went to Stratford-upon-Avon to see an absolutely breath-taking production…
PGL at Barton Hall, Devon. Barton Hall, situated in South Devon, is a wonderful place to visit for anyone who wants to go on an adventure. Which is exactly what Lower II did from Monday 11th – Wednesday 13th June when they enjoyed glorious sunshine in a location which has a backdrop of rolling Devonshire…
Association Day: Saturday 30th June. We are all looking forward to Association Day this Saturday, from 4.00 – 9.00pm. Whether you are present or past pupils, staff or parents, we would love to see you there. There will be so much going on, including performances of Shakespeare, a bouncy castle, art exhibition, the dedication of…
CAFOD campaign. ‘Share the Journey’, CAFOD’s campaign of awareness raising of the plight of refugees saw Augustinians of all ages – from Nursery to Priory 6 to staff and parents walking around the school grounds last week. Throughout the week, from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd June each class gathered in our Chapel and then…
Inspirational visitors. This week has seen some extraordinary visitors come to St Augustine’s Priory. We welcomed the Miraculum Children’s Choir from the Kodály School in Kecskemét, Hungary. Led by László Durányik, this world-famous choir has won accolades and awards for over twenty years and we were delighted to welcome them to Ealing as first stop…
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…
