Category: Prep
Vive La Viande!
Sourcing our food The excellence of the quality of the food prepared and served to St Augustine’s Priory pupils and staff is of primary importance to our school caterers, Holroyd Howe, and it is of great educational value to explain to pupils where our food comes from and how it ends up on our plates….
Drawing and Writing Competition
‘Remember, Remember’ We are pleased to announce that, together with Pitshanger Bookshop, St Augustine’s Priory is running an exciting new creative competition. The theme of the competition, ‘Remember, Remember’ is based around St Augustine’s Priory’s theme for this year, ‘Memory’. There are two categories: from 4 – 7 years of age entries are invited of…
The Taste of Music
Music Department News Dr Higgins, our Director of Music, reports on the news so far this term from the Music Department ‘Term has commenced and the Music Department is in full swing (no pun intended). First, may I say it is my great pleasure to welcome Mrs Heather Eccleston to the Music Department. Mrs Eccleston…
Meeting Members of Staff…
Mrs Eccleston, Music Department As Dr Higgins mentions in his article on the Music Taster Day, Mrs Eccleston joins us for this term. We would like to welcome Mrs Eccleston to St Augustine’s Priory and here share some words she has written as introduction, ‘Hello, my name is Mrs Heather Eccleston and I’m the new…
Meeting Members of Staff…
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…
A Dahlicious Day
Roald Dahl’s Centenary Celebrations ‘There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t even started wondering about yet.’ Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach The Junior School was alive with fictional characters on 13th September 2016 as Prep II through to Upper II helped us celebrate a most creative…
Write on Kew
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…
What Will This Year Bring?
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…
‘Artkitecture’
A Summer of Art and Architecture As we look forward to next week when elements of the ‘Artkitecture’ summer course’s sculptural building will be exhibited in the Rose Garden we look back at the adventure of this week long workshop which took place earlier in the summer. In what seemed to be the hottest week…
Meeting Members of Staff
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…