Category: Junior
STEM Week for Juniors and Preps (Part II)
The Little House of Science workshops. The last week of June was the STEM Week for Juniors and Preps. A festival of science, technology, engineering and Mathematics (excellent workshops on Maths called the Subject Revolution – as in previous article). Mrs Round reports, ‘Several workshops were run by The Little House of Science. Younger year…
Library News
Some excellent books. Our Librarian, Mrs Bhatti, has some great suggestions for a summer of reading and a recap of some of the things we are doing in the library! ‘Prep I are becoming very excited about books and have received their very own copy of the hilarious picture book ‘The Runaway Pea’ written by…
Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Column
Racial Justice Equality and Diversity. We are pleased to announce that St Augustine’s Priory is participating in the Diocese of Westminster Education Service Racial Justice Equality and Diversity Continuing Professional Development online courses. These courses aim to ‘Educate, inform and inspire participants so they can actively work to achieve racial justice and equality in their…
Upper II mark Windrush Day
A stylish celebration. Monday 22nd June was Windrush Day and Mrs Cattigan, Form Teacher Upper II Alpha, reports on the activities organised by Upper II: ‘Upper II celebrated Windrush Day in style on Tuesday 22nd June. They explored the history of the ‘Windrush Generation’ through watching news reels from 1948, when the Empire Windrush sailed…
Something to look out for…
Our next Priory Farm Open Day. A date to mark in your diary is our next Priory Farm Open Day which will be held on Sunday 18th July from 10.00 – 2.00pm. A chance to meet our animals and buy some eggs from our hens and ducks and produce from our allotment. This is proving…
Prep and Junior Sports Days
A festival of sport. Following on from Senior Sports Day, the Nursery, Preps and Juniors have also recently held their Sports Days – a veritable festival of sport at the end of the Summer Term. These events were tremendous events of sporting competition with a variety of athletic events taking place. Some pictures from Preps…
STEM Week for Juniors and Preps
Science and Maths enjoyed by all. Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. The Preps and Juniors relished these subjects this week with workshops galore, including ‘Wilding and the Return of Nature’ for Prep II – Lower I and ‘Green Engineering and Ecology’ for Upper I to Upper II. On Wednesday there was a Subject Revolution Workshop…
Feast of Ss Peter and Paul
A Mass for the whole school. Tuesday 29th June was the Feast of Ss Peter and Paul, and a Holyday of Obligation. We were delighted that Fr Alexander from Ealing Abbey came to celebrate Mass for us. Lower II gathered in the Chapel and Lower IIA had done a wonderful job of preparing the readings…
Songs and Certificates
Lower I, Upper I and Lower II celebrate. The season of Songs and Certificates is upon us! On Monday 14th June we saw Lower II perform with the theme of ‘Birds and Flight’. Mrs Round says that, ‘the girls ‘flew’ into the Chapel to the sound of Nina Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’ and followed this up…
Eyes of the World
Juniors share their vision. Miss Cooke, Form Teacher, Lower II tells us some exciting news from the Juniors: ‘As part of our extra-curricular club ‘Parliamentary Priory’, we have been exploring the climate crisis and this year’s 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) meeting. As part of this, the girls have created some drawings for the…