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Category: Prep
Ash Wednesday
Our prayerful beginning to Lent. Following the excitement of the pancakes on Shrove Tuesday the next day we marked Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Lent is the period of forty days leading up to Easter, a time when we prepare through fasting, penitence and prayer for Easter. Two Masses were held on Wednesday, celebrated…
Our Lenten work
The Catholic Children’s Society. At Senior Assembly on Monday this week we were visited by Ms K Waring from the Catholic Children’s Society, the organisation we will be supporting throughout Lent via the collection boxes which have been distributed one to each class. The CCS supports disadvantaged children and families across London, Hertfordshire and the…
COVID-19
A useful guide. Ms Burrell and Mrs Pugh, Science Department, have provided a handy guide to a very current issue, the coronavirus, aka COVID-19. As they say, ‘we have produced this so that girls are able to interpret the headlines on the virus correctly and properly look after themselves’. We hope that you find it…
Book Week 2020
The Wonder of Words. St Augustine’s Priory has a long link with authors starting with George Sand (real name Aurore Dupin), the nineteenth century French novelist who attended the school when it was in Paris. Fast forward to the twenty-first century and award-winning poet Mona Arshi is an Augustinian parent and award-winning poet Neil Elder…
Wellness Week 2020
Whole School Involvement From the Nursery right through to Upper VI, all at St Augustine’s Priory were involved in Wellness Week 2020. A host of activities took place, starting on Monday 10th February when Priory 6 students visited the Nursery to talk about how to look after ourselves and each other. Ms Hagerty led a…
Wellness Week 2020
A celebration of life. Next week sees the St Augustine’s Priory Wellness Week which this year has as its theme Women’s Rights: Taking Action, focussing on the wholeness of the human being. Many events are planned. Among them there will be a session on ‘Women and the Word’ for Priory 6 which will take as…
The Benefits of Sport.
Swimming for Success. Mr Harnett is known as a significant member of the Mathematics Department, but less well known is his involvement with the swimming team. A national swimmer in his teens, specialising in the Butterfly Stroke, Mr Harnett qualified as a coach when he was sixteen and coached from then and all through his…
Meeting Members of Staff
Ms N Chandler. This term we have been delighted to welcome Ms N Chandler, who joined us as PA to the Bursar plus having responsibility for HR compliance. Ms Chandler is a past pupil of St Augustine’s Priory and has fond memories of her time here. After working in retail for eleven years and several…
God loves teachers
Additional events. We thought you would be fascinated by this piece which was quoted in the St Ignatius School, Toowong, Newsletter in October 2005 and which we would like to share with you: ‘God loves Teachers On the sixth day God created men and women. On the seventh day, God rested – not so much…
Celebrating Chinese New Year
The Nursery and the Year of the Rat Tomorrow sees the beginning of the Year of the Rat, the Chinese New Year. The Nursery enjoyed their celebrations by making a dragon and participated in a dragon dance with cymbals in the Playground. A Chinese restaurant had pride of place in their home corner and they…