Category: Nursery

Upper I Designs for Charities Week

3rd February 2016

Beautiful Biscuits… Upper I contributed to the activities of Charities Week by being enthusiastic participants in the Prep and Junior Biscuit Decorating event on Tuesday.  This was an extremely fun event and here are some of the comments received from our star bakers! Fern Mortimer explains, ‘On Tuesday 2nd February our class did biscuit decoration…

Charities Week!

29th January 2016

Our annual week of fundraising Charities Week is a long-standing tradition at St Augustine’s Priory.  Every year the whole school community joins forces to raise funds for the charities chosen by the school Houses.  This year it will take place next week and from Monday 1st to Friday 5th February there will be an assortment…

St Augustine’s Priory Road Safety Week

29th January 2016

Attention to what? The hustle and bustle of modern city living is considered, by many, a thrill. An inexhaustible supply of communication, entertainment, news and attention, keeps our young Augustinians’ eyes and ears on ready alert. But in this mire of competing distractions, how readily do our girls’ senses focus on that which they should?…

Nursery, Prep I and the Year of Mercy

28th January 2016

Our Holy Doors Cathedrals around the world have opened their Holy Doors for the Year of Mercy which began in December last year.  On Tuesday 8th December 2015, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door in St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, inaugurating the Jubilee of Mercy. The ceremony took place after he celebrated Mass for the Solemnity…

A Sixth Former’s Musical Journey

28th January 2016

Learning a musical instrument! Rhiannon Phillips, Upper VI, is an enthusiastic flautist of great ability.  And, as she writes below, taking up a musical instrument is something she would recommend to everybody: ‘I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow you all away with my 24 note chromatic scale in the key of G! Many…

A Stitch in Time: Designing the Long Kneelers

27th January 2016

The stitches multiply From the Nursery to Upper VI during January the whole school was involved in our A Stitch in Time Project. The smaller kneelers have been designed and are in production with the whole school, staff, past pupils and Governors embroidering and spreading the kneelers far and wide – even going as far…

The Nursery experiments

26th January 2016

The Importance of Science Recently, the Nursery explored the thrilling world of science through some experimental work in their laboratory (aka The Nursery). Miss Slight, the Form Teacher for the Nursery, writes about their investigations: ‘Recently in the Nursery we all took part in an exciting science experiment! We first discussed in a group what…

Prep III: Art Critics

11th January 2016

Reporting on the National Gallery During the last half of last term Prep III learnt how to be newshounds in their English lessons.  During their visit to the National Gallery on 3rd December they used these skills to analyse and report on the paintings of the Nativity they saw and studied as part of their…

Nursery Nativity

3rd December 2015

‘It’s a Baby!’ Yesterday, 2nd December, our Advent season really got under way with the Nursery’s performance of ‘It’s a Baby!’ their Nativity production, which was a wonderful afternoon’s entertainment.  This took place in the Nursery itself which was packed, parents and other family members thronging the seats set out to watch the unfolding of…

Christmas Lunch

1st December 2015

Serenading our diners, crackers and delicious food! On Tuesday 1st December pupils at St Augustine’s Priory enjoyed their Christmas lunch.  This may seem a little early, but from now on until the end of term, apart from lessons and the regular activities of a busy school, we will also be enjoying several Nativity plays, the…

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