Category: Prep

9th September 2016

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…

8th September 2016

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…

7th September 2016

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…

7th September 2016

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…

8th July 2016

Summer Term Melodies… Dr Higgins reports on the musical events of the school over the past few weeks… ‘It has been busy in the Music Department over the last two weeks. Exams and music-making of all kinds have been taking place, with girls from almost every year group in the school taking part in one…

4th July 2016

Miss A Burrell, Head of Biology In September 2016 we will be joined by Miss Aisling Burrell as Head of Biology.  Here she writes introducing herself to us: ‘I am Aisling Burrell and I will be joining the Biology Department at St Augustine’s Priory in September as Head of Biology. I have a first class…

1st July 2016

Animals galore On Thursday 23rd June Preps I and II went on an expedition to Odds Farm Park in Wooburn Common.  They had a wonderful time, meeting lots of animals and even attending a sheep race.  Here are some of the accounts of the day from members of Prep II: Audrey writes, ‘First we went…

1st July 2016

Correspondence with Pope Francis Last year Pope Francis wrote to the world with his encyclical “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”, urging us to care for our home, the planet Earth, and all that it contained. After we celebrated Laudato Si’ week last week with several initiatives designed to help…

30th June 2016

A Journey Back in Time Hampton Court Palace is where you can explore what life was like in the Tudor and Stuart courts.  Situated on the banks of the River Thames this wonderful palace was the destination of a recent visit by Lower IV.  Katie Fung, Lower IV Alpha, leads us through Lower IV’s time…

24th June 2016

Following the Pope’s call It is one year since the publication of the papal encyclical ‘Laudato Si’:  On Care for our Common Home’, a call for us all to care for our planet. In the spirit of this encyclical we have been marking the anniversary at St Augustine’s Priory with ‘Laudato Si’ week.  We have…