Poetry Competition. Ms Corkery, Religious Education Department, reports on the competition which combined R.E. with creative writing! ‘As part of ‘The God who Speaks’ theme for this school year, the Religious Education Department recently ran a poetry competition at Key Stage 3. The task was to create a poem inspired in some way by the…
Visitors from Oswestry School. Winter is still with us even though the daffodils are blossoming in the Prep Meadow! But the Priory Farm never sleeps. The allotment needs tending, the chickens, micro-pigs and sheep all need looking after and our Farm Managers are no slouches when it comes to all the work involved – however…
Our prayerful beginning to Lent. Following the excitement of the pancakes on Shrove Tuesday the next day we marked Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Lent is the period of forty days leading up to Easter, a time when we prepare through fasting, penitence and prayer for Easter. Two Masses were held on Wednesday, celebrated…
The Catholic Children’s Society. At Senior Assembly on Monday this week we were visited by Ms K Waring from the Catholic Children’s Society, the organisation we will be supporting throughout Lent via the collection boxes which have been distributed one to each class. The CCS supports disadvantaged children and families across London, Hertfordshire and the…
A useful guide. Ms Burrell and Mrs Pugh, Science Department, have provided a handy guide to a very current issue, the coronavirus, aka COVID-19. As they say, ‘we have produced this so that girls are able to interpret the headlines on the virus correctly and properly look after themselves’. We hope that you find it…
The Wonder of Words. St Augustine’s Priory has a long link with authors starting with George Sand (real name Aurore Dupin), the nineteenth century French novelist who attended the school when it was in Paris. Fast forward to the twenty-first century and award-winning poet Mona Arshi is an Augustinian parent and award-winning poet Neil Elder…
Whole School Involvement From the Nursery right through to Upper VI, all at St Augustine’s Priory were involved in Wellness Week 2020. A host of activities took place, starting on Monday 10th February when Priory 6 students visited the Nursery to talk about how to look after ourselves and each other. Ms Hagerty led a…
TES Independent School Awards 2020 We were delighted when, last Friday, 7th February, St Augustine’s Priory won the TES Student Initiative of the Year at the TES Independent School Awards 2020. A Priory 6 student initiative to tackle period poverty captured the judges’ attention. Period poverty is the lack of access to sanitary products, menstrual…
Exchange programme with Ste Marie de Neuilly An opportunity to experience French culture and improve language skills is offered by our exchange programme with our sister school, Ste Marie de Neuilly in Paris. Lower IV pupils embarked on this visit which took place from 29th January to 1st February. Rachel Hiney and Caterina Lincoln, Lower…
The God who speaks: The year of the Word On Thursday 30th January, the Liturgy Prefects from Form III – Upper IV attended Mass at Westminster Cathedral and followed this with a tour of the ‘Tents of Meeting’ Scripture Road Show, organised to mark ‘The God Who Speaks: The Year of the Word’, this year’s…
