Category: Nursery

14th September 2016

A welcome guest… Groucho the rabbit makes an appearance A special visitor arrived at St Augustine’s Priory on Tuesday 13th September.  Groucho the rabbit, who has been to St Augustine’s Priory over several years is owned by Lucy Bennet, past pupil and daughter of Mrs Bennet, Head of Maths. This year Groucho, accompanied by Lucy,…

13th September 2016

An addition to the Nursery As we welcome so many children into the Nursery and Prep I this September, we welcome Ms Hristina Nikolova, who has also joined St Augustine’s Priory’s Nursery for this new term! Here she introduces herself: ‘I am Hristina Nikolova and I have just joined the Nursery at St Augustine’s Priory…

9th September 2016

A Festival of Literature It is again time for that wonderful literary festival ‘Write on Kew’, returning to Kew Gardens again this year from Thursday 22nd – Sunday 25th September 2016 in Kew Gardens.  This is a festival for all ages, from one to 101 with four days of talks and events with a stellar…

8th September 2016

A Prayer for the New School Year A new academic school year is always exciting. Perhaps starting a new school, moving up a year, reuniting with old friends and making new ones, it all adds to the experience of new beginnings, of a fresh start, a blank page on which to write. The following prayer…

7th September 2016

Miss D Aiton, School Office Manager One of our new members of staff this term is Miss Dawn Aiton, our new School Office Manager. She writes: ‘I am very pleased to have joined St Augustine’s Priory as School Office Manager.  For nearly the last five years I have worked at Brunel University London.  I have…

8th July 2016

Summer Term Melodies… Dr Higgins reports on the musical events of the school over the past few weeks… ‘It has been busy in the Music Department over the last two weeks. Exams and music-making of all kinds have been taking place, with girls from almost every year group in the school taking part in one…

4th July 2016

Miss A Burrell, Head of Biology In September 2016 we will be joined by Miss Aisling Burrell as Head of Biology.  Here she writes introducing herself to us: ‘I am Aisling Burrell and I will be joining the Biology Department at St Augustine’s Priory in September as Head of Biology. I have a first class…

24th June 2016

Following the Pope’s call It is one year since the publication of the papal encyclical ‘Laudato Si’:  On Care for our Common Home’, a call for us all to care for our planet. In the spirit of this encyclical we have been marking the anniversary at St Augustine’s Priory with ‘Laudato Si’ week.  We have…

24th June 2016

Come rain, come shine… Monday 14th June saw the first of this year’s Sports Days, the Senior Sports Day which took place in the grounds and on the Astroturf.  The weather was, to say the least, changeable, but the girls showed incredible endurance, strength and perseverance as every event in track and field was completed…

23rd June 2016

Support our Sixth Form Theatre Company in Walpole Park! Rebecca Shoesmith, Lower VI, one of the members of Priory Players, the Sixth Form theatre company, tells us about their upcoming production in Ealing on Saturday 25th June.  As there is a fair on Ealing Green over this weekend, this will be the perfect opportunity to…