Category: Junior
Our Christmas Carol Service
Looking to the stars Our traditional Carol Service at Ealing Abbey on Tuesday 13th December was a wonderful occasion. To a backdrop of stars, our pupils from Lower I to Upper VI joined in music and readings with parents, staff and past pupils to celebrate Advent and look forward to the birth of the Christ…
‘A Budget Cinderella’
Priory Players’ Pantomime Our Head of Drama and Managing Director of the Priory Players, Ms Brown, reports on the Priory Players’ Christmas production: ‘On Friday 9th December the Priory Players staged this year’s school panto ‘A Budget Cinderella’ and it was a triumph. Bhakti Patel, the company’s production manager, co-directed the play with me and…
Language Learning
An academic analysis Language learning has long been a staple part of our Junior School curriculum with French recently having been joined by Spanish and Mandarin. We are very fortunate that this has continuously been delivered by not only native speakers, but also language-teaching specialists. Therefore when the Government, in 2014, made it compulsory for…
Holy Family Parish Christmas Carol Concert
A Christmas community On Sunday 11th December a choir led by Mrs Cotton and Miss Johnson from St Augustine’s Priory was delighted to perform at the Holy Family Church’s Carol Concert together with the Iraqi Choir from the parish and the choir from the Holy Family Catholic Primary School. Fr Neil, Parish Priest at the…
Christmas Fair 2016
Some of the highlights! Our Christmas Fair took place on Friday 2nd December. As always, it was organised by our Parents’ Committee, and this year it was even better than ever! From the teddy tombola, the delicious refreshments to suit all tastes, the hoopla stall and our Young Enterprise team selling their wares, to the…
Understanding Catholicism
The Benedictine Institute ‘Understanding Catholicism’ is a fascinating course run at the Benedictine Institute, Overton House, 74 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5. The course is for adults of any faith or none and has been developed for both non-Catholic and Catholic parents of children and teachers at Catholic schools – and for anyone else interested in…
Exodus
Journeying As we journey through Advent to Christmas Day, let us remember all those who journey in the world today, that God may bring them safe to their destination.
Little Shop of Horrors
Feed me, Seymour! St Augustine’s Priory will be wowing audiences with their cutting edge version of the classic American musical, Little Shop of Horrors, at Questors Theatre on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th and Saturday 11th March 2017. The musical will be performed in the Judi Dench Playhouse, the main and highest capacity stage of the…
Might counting our blessings be the path to health and wellbeing?
I have finally acknowledged that I am no longer a young teacher. Various moments have prompted this epiphany and it was sealed recently as I reflected upon schools’ responses to the new curriculum. I realised that I am one of just a few people in the staff room who remembers teaching A Levels before Curriculum…
The Advent Journey
Travelling with CAFOD We have now entered the season of Advent, the time to prepare for the coming of Christ. CAFOD, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, has produced a digital Advent calendar to help ‘you to reflect on issues of global justice with your family or as part of your parish or community as…