The Parents’ Committee Seasonal Celebration Friday 2nd December from 3.00 – 5.30pm sees the 2016 Parents’ Committee Christmas Fair. As always, the Parents’ Committee is preparing an event which will dazzle and delight! There will be many wonderful stalls for us all to enjoy and for this fair to be the success it always is,…
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…
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…
“To succeed, you have to believe in something with such passion that it becomes a reality” – (Dame Anita Roddick) Monday 7th November began with an assembly on ‘Resilience and Drive’ from our guest for the morning, Hannah Macleod, Team GB Olympic 2016 Gold Medallist, Team GB Olympic 2012 Bronze Medallist and member of the…
Healthy Eating at St Augustine’s Priory The humble apple has for thousands of years wormed its way into our hearts and our stomachs. And this week has seen Holroyd Howe, our school caterers, seek to enlighten us on all things apple. With a display in the cloisters of a variety of apple varieties and a…
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…
A Stitch in Time We were delighted when the Summer edition of The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) magazine featured our ‘A Stitch in Time’ project, the project for the upholstering of our Chapel kneelers which our Head of Art, Miss Eng, has led and organised from its inception. Pupils take part in the embroidering of…
“I’ll grow it back anyway!” These unassuming words of Aneae Rodriguez, Upper VI, represent so effortlessly the outlook that girls at St Augustine’s Priory develop as they grow; selfless, down to earth girls with their feet so firmly on the ground when it comes to considering others. “My motivation to cut my hair was somewhat…
Mrs K Bhatti, School Librarian We welcome this term our new School Librarian, Miss Bhatti, who here introduces herself: ‘Dear Staff, Parents and Students, I am Karen Bhatti, your new School Librarian. I have worked within an educational organisation as a School Librarian for 16 years. I enjoy working with children and young adults and…
‘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…
