October 2020

A wealth of inspiration. On the website of Black History Month, Catherine Ross, Founder Director of Museumand – The National Caribbean Heritage Museum and Editor of Black History Month 2020 writes: ‘Black History Month 2020 is also a time to look forward and celebrate the here and now – and the future possibilities. In years […]

A Display for the Michaelmas Term. Joy is something to be treasured!  An inspirational display has been put up by the Juniors to mark their joy at returning to school after the summer.   Both staff and pupils are contributing to the display, which continues to be added to! We share with you here some of […]

Black History Month. Ms Bhatti, School Librarian, has adorned the Scriptorium with a display marking Black History Month.  She writes, ‘In the Scriptorium, Black History Month is a celebration of writers, illustrators and inspirational people of colour. We have created a display in the library to promote Black History Month along with a colourful array […]

A once in a lifetime experience. Despite the limitations of life these days, Form III visited Africa this week and connected with some wonderful  Northern White Rhinos.  Although they couldn’t travel to Kenya, Kenya came to us via Zoom! Ms Eng, Head of Art takes up the story:   ‘Over the summer, Arianna in Form III, […]

Black History Month celebration. The celebrations to mark Black History Month continue in the Art Department as here, Ms Eng, Head of Art, reports on the work Lower IV have been undertaking in their study of perspective in Art.  Ms Eng writes: ‘We thought we would celebrate Black History Month by each researching an artefact […]

Studying The Little Red Hen. The Nursery have been having an exciting time this week!  Mrs Morris reports that the story of the week was The Little Red Hen who finds some wheat.  She plants the wheat, harvests and mills it before baking it into delicious bread!  At each stage she asks all the other […]

Activities around the School. Celebrating #GoRedForDyslexia today, 9th October, by wearing red accessories was a great way to help raise awareness of neurodiversity.  But there were many more activities going on around the school this week which all helped us to understand neurodiversity! Mrs Thackray, our Literacy Support Teacher, reports that St Augustine’s Priory marked […]

Books Galore. Mrs Bhatti, our School Librarian, updates us on all the literary activities going on this term throughout the school.  In addition, in this Dyslexia Awareness Week, Mrs Bhatti has put together an excellent display in the Scriptorium with books about various aspects of neurodiversity for girls to investigate. ‘We celebrated Roald Dahl’s birthday […]

LB TE HC EL PY RA XK. Code-breaking – a subject that exerts a fascination for any fan of spy stories.  Mathematics and Computing are, of course, two subjects that are essential for life.  Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than at Bletchley Park.  Mr Dellow, Head of the Computing Department and Head of […]

Our Drama Scholars report. Drama is a fascinating subject, allowing pupils to explore, not just the text, character or plot, but the wider issues surrounding the plays they study. At St Augustine’s Priory our pupils are involved in Drama productions each year and relish the opportunity to research and discover all that Drama has to […]