Category: Faith Life

18th November 2016

Operation Christmas Child Every year near Christmas the Juniors set about collecting shoe boxes. This does not show an avid love for boxes, or for shoes, but in order to send Christmas gifts to children in need abroad, it is necessary to first have an empty shoe box to fill! Operation Christmas Child, run by…

10th November 2016

Juniors step forward Our weekly Masses at St Augustine’s Priory are a source of great joy. We are fortunate to have our own Chapel and are so pleased and thankful that priests, for example, Fr Thomas from Ealing Abbey, or Fr Fintan from Our Lady of Lourdes, are happy to visit here to celebrate Mass…

10th November 2016

Design a cover for our Order of Service The St Augustine’s Priory Carol Service is one of the highlights of our year. Held at Ealing Abbey, this year the service is on Tuesday 13th December at 7.30pm at Ealing Abbey.  Attended by forms Lower I – Upper VI, the Abbey is always packed as family…

9th November 2016

To challenge and inspire is part of the remit for our speaker programme for Priory 6 and this certainly was the case with a recent visitor to St Augustine’s Priory. Mrs Cotton, Deputy Head, Seniors comments on this speaker: “We were fortunate on 18th October to have Professor Gerry Thomas of Imperial College London come to speak to…

4th November 2016

Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home Our celebrations of the one year anniversary marking the publication of the papal encyclical ‘Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home’, has resulted in a wonderful and surprise response from the Vatican. In the Summer Term we held a ‘Laudato Si’ week, celebrating Pope Francis’ call…

11th October 2016

‘Lord of the harvest, we praise you for this season of plenty.  We rejoice that you created everything for all of us to share.’  (CAFOD 2016) CAFOD is the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, standing alongside poor communities and working with them to end poverty and injustice across the…

6th October 2016

Lower IVA’s preparation Every week, one of the Forms takes it in turns to prepare the weekly Mass at St Augustine’s Priory. On Wednesday 5th October, Fr Thomas came to St Augustine’s Priory to celebrate Mass for us and it was the turn of Lower IVA to prepare the Mass which was attended by Form…

30th September 2016

Opening up our view of the world Being labelled is something that may well happen to each of us at some time of our lives. Whether because of our appearance, our mannerisms, our accent, we all risk being identified as a stereotype and identifying others in the same way.  The work of Upper VI artist,…

29th September 2016

Working to help others At St Augustine’s Priory we take the responsibility to others seriously. This was evident in the Prep Assembly on Wednesday 27th September which celebrated the work of the Little Princess Trust and one of its supporters, Christina Miller in Prep III, who has had her hair cut in support of this…

28th September 2016

A Prayer for Peace Lower IV A concluded their assembly this Monday, 26th September, with an extract from David Tonghou Ngong’s ‘A Prayer for Peace’.  The extract, which appears below, calls to mind last week’s International Day of Peace and the longing for the establishment of peace in areas of conflict around the world.  Monday…