Category: Nursery

23rd November 2015

Mathematics Rules! Miss Slight, Form Teacher Nursery, reports on her Form’s exploration of numbers: “Last week in the Nursery we introduced ‘Number of the Week’. Each week we look at a number out of sequence in a range of different forms. Last week we worked with the number four. We talked about what the number…

8th October 2015

Barnaby Bear welcomes Prep III Mrs Lubowiecka, Form Teacher Prep III, tells us about Prep III’s recent adventures in Amersham: ‘On Thursday 1st October Prep III and their teddy bears went on a Geography trip to Amersham Field Centre where they were welcomed by Sarah and Barnaby Bear. They helped Barnaby to pack his rucksack…

2nd October 2015

A host of activities celebrating literature The Juniors have had a great week celebrating the wonderful world of literature.  Monday saw the author, Tony Bradman, visiting the school and not only reading from his work to the Juniors, but also conducting some sessions on creative writing and the work of an author (see interview below)….

27th August 2015

We prepare for Easter The End of Lent Term 2015   At St Augustine’s Priory the final days of the Lent Term 2015 were filled with anticipation and celebration as we continued our journey through Lent and looked forward to the events of Holy Week. The Preps started us off with their early celebration of…

27th August 2015

Be Spirited Time Nursery to Lower IV On Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th April our Chapter Room and Chapel welcomed pupils from the Nursery to Lower IV and gave them the opportunity to ‘Be Spirited’. Prayer stations were laid out in both areas so that our pupils were able to savour different approaches to prayer…

27th August 2015

Pirates Ahoy! The Nursery goes Treasure Hunting Friday 15th May saw a voyage of discovery as the Nursery donned pirate outfits and went to hunt for buried treasure in the Prep Meadow. Fortunately, we have a pirate galleon and Captains Bani and Jackson led their shipmates as they ventured on a voyage of exploration and…

26th August 2015

Bear Hunt! Nursery and Prep I gather round the camp fire Last week, on Thursday 12th February, Nursery and Prep I took full advantage of our Forest School and went on a bear hunt.  This involved wrapping up warmly, trekking to the Prep Meadow, setting up camp, building a camp fire (actually Mr Smith and…

25th August 2015

Building snowmen The Nursery in the snow Our grounds are covered in the first snows of the winter.  This can mean only one thing – our Nursery out and about in our grounds building snowmen. Led by Miss Bani, Form Teacher Nursery, and her colleagues, our Nursery pupils put on their warmest winter clothing ready…