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Month: January 2020

The UK Space Design Competition

31st January 2020

Through to the next stage. The UK Space Design Competition is an annual science and engineering competition designed as a simulation of life in industry. Open to students in Years 10 to 13, the UKSDC aims to enable students to experience the vast potential and valuable opportunities available through future study, or even a career,…

God loves teachers

31st January 2020

Additional events. We thought you would be fascinated by this piece which was quoted in the St Ignatius School, Toowong, Newsletter in October 2005 and which we would like to share with you: ‘God loves Teachers On the sixth day God created men and women. On the seventh day, God rested – not so much…

Upper V on Retreat

31st January 2020

A day at SPEC Josephine Heffernan and Dilichi Dieobi, Upper VA, were two of the participants in the Upper V Retreat Day at the SPEC Retreat Centre to mark the end of their mock GCSEs.  Here they give their account of the day: ‘On Monday 20th January, after our mock examinations, the whole of Upper…

Celebrating Chinese New Year

24th January 2020

The Nursery and the Year of the Rat Tomorrow sees the beginning of the Year of the Rat, the Chinese New Year.  The Nursery enjoyed their celebrations by making a dragon and participated in a dragon dance with cymbals in the Playground.  A Chinese restaurant had pride of place in their home corner and they…

Meeting Members of Staff

24th January 2020

Ms C Matheson We are delighted to welcome Ms Matheson to St Augustine’s Priory who joins the English Department to teach English this term to Form III – Upper IV.  After achieving a BaCl in Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology Ms Matheson took a graduate degree in Secondary Education and a graduate…

The Sacred and the Ordinary

15th January 2020

Although we can mark the Christmas season until the Feast of the Presentation, or Candlemas, on 2nd February, we have now entered the Ordinary Time of the liturgical year. There in one sentence is the finely strung balance between the sacred and the ordinary which Christmastide celebrates. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales…

Meeting the new decade

10th January 2020

The speaking image. This series of images encapsulates the values that we hold at St Augustine’s Priory.  From Nursery through to Upper VI we rejoice in intellectual curiosity in a school which holds academic excellence at its core.   There is a love of learning and an overflowing creativity which encourages a freedom of spirit amongst…

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Strengthening Our Community: The Return of Boys to our Preps and Pre-Preps

We are excited to share that, from September 2026, boys will begin moving up from our Nursery into Reception, marking the gradual reintroduction of boys into our Prep and Pre-Prep School.

This step reflects growing interest from families who value our strong holistic ethos and unique grounds and setting and would like their sons and daughters to share their educational journey together.

At St Augustine’s, our strong sense of community, academic excellence, and deep care for each individual child remain at the heart of everything we do. This is a natural evolution of our school rather than a change to who we are, building on our strengths and allowing us to offer the same joyful, inspiring education to even more children.