Faith Life
Category: Priory Post
Lent Term 2023: Highlights 1
The first half of the Lent Term 2023 has seen community life at St Augustine’s Priory at its best. From retreats to visits to Paris and our Feast Day, we have joined together to celebrate and commemorate. Community and Faith Life: Feast Day. The annual St Augustine’s Priory Feast Day was celebrated on Wednesday 8th…
Michaelmas Term 2022: Highlights 2
From time travel, to Paris, to New York, the St Augustine’s Priory community went far and wide during the second half of the Michaelmas Term 2022. It’s a wonderful town: New York, New York. Mr Chappory, Head of Geography, reports on the visit, at the end of the Michaelmas term and the beginning of the…
Michaelmas Term 2022: Highlights 1
The first half of the Michaelmas Term 2022 at St Augustine’s Priory was filled with a variety of events. The following highlights give just a taste of all that happened. 1. Year 7’s Adventure at High Ashurst: Flying High! Tara in Year 7 reports on the high excitement visit of Year 7 in September to…
Upper VI Leavers’ Mass and Progression
A wonderful evening. September began beautifully with our Upper VI Leavers’ Mass and Progression. On Thursday 1st September our Summer 2022 Upper VI leavers gathered with their families and staff in the Meadow to mark their leaving St Augustine’s Priory and progressing on to university. Mass was celebrated by Fr David Reilly and the Mass…
GCSE results at St Augustine’s Priory
A day to celebrate. Congratulations to all our GCSE candidates who received their results yesterday, Thursday 25th August. It was wonderful to see our students (together with many family members) who came to school to celebrate with us. Following the excellent A Level results at St Augustine’s Priory last week, the GCSE results achieved by…
A Level results at St Augustine’s Priory
An exciting day. Congratulations to all our out-going Upper VI who received their A Level results today, Thursday 18th August. We were delighted to welcome them to St Augustine’s Priory to celebrate with members of staff and family. Mrs Raffray, Headteacher, commented, ‘’We say that our girls will change the world. This cohort of A…
Sports Awards evening
A welcome return to a superlative event. Bearing in mind the glorious summer of sport we have enjoyed, from the victory of the Lionesses to the Commonwealth Games and now the European Athletics Championships and the European Swimming Championships, it was wonderful to be able to welcome the return of our Sports Awards evening on…
Wonderful Weddings
Celebrations in the Chapel. Since the end of the Summer Term we have been delighted to celebrate not one, but two weddings of past pupils in our Chapel. On the first weekend of the Summer holidays, Rozzy married Jake and on the following weekend, Olivia married Jonah. Both weddings were beautiful and joyous occasions filled…
Breeding a Therapy Sheep
Our pet lamb. We didn’t start out with the idea of breeding a therapy sheep, it just seemed to happen! When our lambs were born this Spring, one of them was unfortunately rejected by his mother. So the Farm Managers, under the guidance of Mr Raffray, decided to hand rear the lamb. Bottle-feeding a new…
Independent Schools of the Year 2022 awards
St Augustine’s Priory shortlisted. We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted in two categories in the Independent School Parent magazine’s Independent Schools of the Year 2022; for ‘Student Wellbeing’ and also ‘Rising Star of the Year’. As the ISOTY website states, the purpose of the awards is to, ‘highlight the excellence of…
