Faith Life

Ten Ten Resources. Ten Ten Theatre Company, a professional Catholic theatre company which has often visited St Augustine’s Priory, has prepared resources for us all to use at this time.  We are attaching the following prayers and are grateful to Ten Ten for them. We do hope you find them of use.         […]

Pax Christi. Lower VI has not let the grass grow under their feet.  In today’s remote learning lesson (24th March), Mrs McDermott, Head of R.E., gave them a mission to research and write about Pax Christi, the international organisation which works for peace based on the gospel. Over the last half term Priory 6 has […]

The Year of the Word. From a rock that David threw at Goliath to Queen Esther to an entire Nativity scene the pupils and staff at St Augustine’s Priory threw themselves into World Book Day on Thursday and its theme of characters from the Bible.  Pupils dressed as characters from the Old and New Testaments […]

A concert of four schools joining together. The evening of Monday 23rd March sees a not-to-be missed concert of the Emmaus Catholic Schools’ Partnership.  Taking place at 7.30pm in Ealing Abbey, with guest vocalists VOCES8, this will be an evening when the four schools in the partnership join together for an evening of wonderful music-making. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]