Category: Prep

Advent: First Week

30th November 2017

Preparing for the coming of Christ Sunday 3rd December is the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of the four week season when we prepare for Christmas, the coming of Jesus Christ into the world.  To mark this we light the first of the Advent candles. Here is a prayer to help us to focus…

Charities Week

23rd November 2017

27th November – 1st December 2017 We are all looking forward to Charities Week which, although usually held in the Lent Term, this academic year has been brought forward to next week!  Activities aplenty will take place including talent shows, cake sales, an eco-fashion show, dodgeball tournament, a bring and buy sale and the ever-popular…

Vision of Hope

21st November 2017

A visit to the House of Lords The website of the National Schools Poetry Competition (NSPC4PEACE) says that the competition ‘is designed to unlock the potential of young people and to encourage them to express their emotions through writing poetry about peace.’ As it is supported by the Three Faiths Forum (3ff), Mrs McDermott, Head…

Christmas Fair

21st November 2017

A panoply of excitement Just over two weeks to go before our annual Christmas Fair, organised by our Parents’ Committee.  Friday 8th December at 3.00pm sees the event open and it will end with the Grand Prize Draw at 5.30pm. As always, Father Christmas will be setting up his grotto in the Prep Playground, ably…

Anti-Bullying Parent Questionnaire

17th November 2017

Link below to national survey Please find below the link to a national survey on Anti-Bullying and our parents’ knowledge of our policies and procedures.  We are always reflecting on our practice in this area and our most recent change to our policy is that we have included a specific reference to parents as bystanders…

All different, all equal

16th November 2017

Anti-bullying week: a Whole School mission We were pleased to support Anti-bullying week this year with a range of activites throughout the school. “As a school that promotes Gospel values of truth, justice, compassion and reconciliation, we aim to help both the victims and perpetrators of bullying”, commented Mrs Cotton. Anti-Bullying Week is coordinated by…

Quel Jour Magnifique!

16th November 2017

Visitors from Sainte-Marie de Neuilly Wednesday 15th November was a red-letter day in the annals of St Augustine’s Priory.  We were delighted to welcome two visitors from a Parisian school, Sainte-Marie de Neuilly: Véronique Philouze, Directrice Collège-Lycée, and Sabine Chauvet, Responsable de division 5ème. But Sainte-Marie de Neuilly is no ordinary school.  You may remember…

Nursery and Preps mark anniversaries

15th November 2017

Remembrance Last weekend saw two days of note, Armistice Day on Saturday 11th November, marking the anniversary of the end of the First World War, followed by Remembrance Day on Sunday 12th November when services and ceremonies were held throughout the U.K. to remember and pray for those who fell in the two world wars…

Priory Pyrotechnics & Pitshanger Bookshop Prize Giving 2017

25th October 2017

Last Friday 20th October our Parents’ Committee annual fireworks display, Priory Pyrotechnics, once again lit up the early autumn sky over our Ealing grounds. The evening took place at the bottom of the field thus providing St Augustine’s Priory as a dramatic backdrop to the fireworks. Staff, parents and girls manned the stalls, from Priory…

Prep III travel with Barnaby Bear

20th October 2017

A visit to the Amersham Field Centre Learning about Geography and the natural world takes many forms.  Whether you are studying a map, learning about the tides and the shoreline, analysing the imports and exports of a given country or examining population distribution, it is important to retain the sense of discovery and excitement that…

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