Month: September 2020

City Kids Autumn 2020

29th September 2020

New issue available now. The Autumn 2020 edition of City Kids, the magazine for London families, is now available.  To read your copy please click on the following link: Read Autumn 2020 issue where you will find a host of information, including a calendar of events on in London and issues arising from lockdown and…

Upper IV and ‘The Way’

29th September 2020

The importance of pilgrimage. Mrs McDermott reports that, as part of their unit on Pilgrimage, Upper IV have watched the film, ‘The Way’, made in 2010, about a man’s journey along The Camino de Santiago, the Way of St James, the network of pilgrimage routes that ends at the tomb of St James in the…

Prep II and Prep III Mass

25th September 2020

The Good Shepherd. Prep II and Prep III produced a wonderful display of sheep in the Chapter Room this week!  This was in preparation for their Celebratory Mass on 23rd September to begin the school year.  This was on the theme of ‘The Good Shepherd’, and Miss Keane, Deputy Head Juniors (Academic), had this to…

News from Zambia

25th September 2020

Lubasi Home developments. We have received some news from Mrs Sarah Bramble (expedition coordinator), who is our link with Lubasi Home in Zambia, for which we raised the wonderful sum of £1,400 earlier in the year.  This is what she has to tell us: ‘It was a very exciting meeting of St Augustine students, their…

Prep I study owls

24th September 2020

Combining Literature and Art. Mrs van der Merwe, Prep I Form Teacher, describes an exciting Prep I cross-curricular activity.  Prep I have been exploring the excellent world of literature with ‘Owl Babies’ and expanding that into some great art work using natural materials from our grounds. Mrs van der Merwe explains, ‘Over the past two…

Priory 6 Careers Talks

24th September 2020

A Blended Learning Opportunity. We have an exciting line-up of speakers ready to go in this term’s programme of Careers Talks for Priory 6, organised by Mr Ferguson.  The only difference this term is that they will be taking part remotely.  All part of our blended learning programme! The programme begins on Friday 2nd October…

Real change, enduring change

24th September 2020

One step at a time. ‘Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time’.  So said Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who died on 18th September 2020. The poem below, ‘In the steps of RBG’ by American poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer speaks about the change that…

Our new, ‘virtual’ Carlo House

24th September 2020

Community and Remote Learning Online (CARLO). One of the greatest challenges of self-isolation is exactly that sense of isolation, which can make people of all ages feel cut off from their friends and relations.  We are therefore delighted to announce the launch of ‘Carlo’, a new ‘virtual’ House for all students (and staff) who are…

Lower II’s cross-curricular approach

18th September 2020

Explosions of colour! Mrs Round, Lower IIA Form Teacher, RE and Faith Leader and Science Leader, here shows how Lower II are embracing a cross-curricular approach to their subjects, combing Art with R.E. and ICT.  They have produced some glorious pieces of ‘Creation Art’ art work, incorporating theological questions, whilst also demonstrating their growing skills…

Reaching across the U.K.

17th September 2020

Blended Learning Initiative. One of the biggest challenges education is facing during the Covid-19 pandemic is how to simultaneously reach, stimulate and educate both those children who are in school and those who, owing to self-isolation or quarantine, are at home. At St Augustine’s Priory, we realised before lockdown began that an effective way of…

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