Faith Life
Category: Nursery
Lent Term 2023: Highlights 1
The first half of the Lent Term 2023 has seen community life at St Augustine’s Priory at its best. From retreats to visits to Paris and our Feast Day, we have joined together to celebrate and commemorate. Community and Faith Life: Feast Day. The annual St Augustine’s Priory Feast Day was celebrated on Wednesday 8th…
Michaelmas Term 2022: Highlights 2
From time travel, to Paris, to New York, the St Augustine’s Priory community went far and wide during the second half of the Michaelmas Term 2022. It’s a wonderful town: New York, New York. Mr Chappory, Head of Geography, reports on the visit, at the end of the Michaelmas term and the beginning of the…
Michaelmas Term 2022: Highlights 1
The first half of the Michaelmas Term 2022 at St Augustine’s Priory was filled with a variety of events. The following highlights give just a taste of all that happened. 1. Year 7’s Adventure at High Ashurst: Flying High! Tara in Year 7 reports on the high excitement visit of Year 7 in September to…
Wonderful Weddings
Celebrations in the Chapel. Since the end of the Summer Term we have been delighted to celebrate not one, but two weddings of past pupils in our Chapel. On the first weekend of the Summer holidays, Rozzy married Jake and on the following weekend, Olivia married Jonah. Both weddings were beautiful and joyous occasions filled…
Breeding a Therapy Sheep
Our pet lamb. We didn’t start out with the idea of breeding a therapy sheep, it just seemed to happen! When our lambs were born this Spring, one of them was unfortunately rejected by his mother. So the Farm Managers, under the guidance of Mr Raffray, decided to hand rear the lamb. Bottle-feeding a new…
Independent Schools of the Year 2022 awards
St Augustine’s Priory shortlisted. We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted in two categories in the Independent School Parent magazine’s Independent Schools of the Year 2022; for ‘Student Wellbeing’ and also ‘Rising Star of the Year’. As the ISOTY website states, the purpose of the awards is to, ‘highlight the excellence of…
GSA Creative Writing competition
Great success! The Creative Writing Club is thrilled to announce that Tamara and Milly, both in Upper IV have achieved great success in the Girls’ Schools Association Creative writing competition. In the KS3 category Tamara’s poem has been awarded runner-up position and Milly’s poem has been highly commended. Congratulations to both! Mrs King, English Department,…
Priory Farm and Meadow Open Morning
Meeting the animals. The Priory Farm and the Meadow threw open their gates on Sunday 12th June to welcome visitors. Our ‘Augustronomique’ horsebox opened up and provided refreshments on a warm June morning. Mr Raffray, the Priory Farm Managers and the parents who volunteer on the allotment and Priory Farm were on hand to guide…
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee BBQ Picnic
A lunch in the grounds. After all the events of the Platinum Jubilee Weekend, St Augustine’s Priory was ready to celebrate as well. The Nursery had marked the Jubilee with a tea before Half Term, but the rest of the school were waiting for a BBQ picnic on Friday 10th June. Armed with a…
Nursery Sports Day
A galaxy of events to enjoy. The Nursery Sports Day was held on Friday 10th June and was a time of balancing, jumping, running and throwing as the Nursery children demonstrated their sporting prowess. Prep I was there to show support to the Nursery and they were joined by the Nursery parents who cheered everyone…
