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Category: Priory Post
News from Zambia
Lubasi Home developments. We have received some news from Mrs Sarah Bramble (expedition coordinator), who is our link with Lubasi Home in Zambia, for which we raised the wonderful sum of £1,400 earlier in the year. This is what she has to tell us: ‘It was a very exciting meeting of St Augustine students, their…
Prep I study owls
Combining Literature and Art. Mrs van der Merwe, Prep I Form Teacher, describes an exciting Prep I cross-curricular activity. Prep I have been exploring the excellent world of literature with ‘Owl Babies’ and expanding that into some great art work using natural materials from our grounds. Mrs van der Merwe explains, ‘Over the past two…
Priory 6 Careers Talks
A Blended Learning Opportunity. We have an exciting line-up of speakers ready to go in this term’s programme of Careers Talks for Priory 6, organised by Mr Ferguson. The only difference this term is that they will be taking part remotely. All part of our blended learning programme! The programme begins on Friday 2nd October…
Real change, enduring change
One step at a time. ‘Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time’. So said Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who died on 18th September 2020. The poem below, ‘In the steps of RBG’ by American poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer speaks about the change that…
Our new, ‘virtual’ Carlo House
Community and Remote Learning Online (CARLO). One of the greatest challenges of self-isolation is exactly that sense of isolation, which can make people of all ages feel cut off from their friends and relations. We are therefore delighted to announce the launch of ‘Carlo’, a new ‘virtual’ House for all students (and staff) who are…
Lower II’s cross-curricular approach
Explosions of colour! Mrs Round, Lower IIA Form Teacher, RE and Faith Leader and Science Leader, here shows how Lower II are embracing a cross-curricular approach to their subjects, combing Art with R.E. and ICT. They have produced some glorious pieces of ‘Creation Art’ art work, incorporating theological questions, whilst also demonstrating their growing skills…
Reaching across the U.K.
Blended Learning Initiative. One of the biggest challenges education is facing during the Covid-19 pandemic is how to simultaneously reach, stimulate and educate both those children who are in school and those who, owing to self-isolation or quarantine, are at home. At St Augustine’s Priory, we realised before lockdown began that an effective way of…
Winning Poems
Chiswick Book Festival Young People’s Poetry Competition. Seventeen schools took part in this year’s Chiswick Book Festival Young People’s Poetry Competition and, with so many poems about lockdown submitted, a special ‘Lockdown’ category was created. Tisha Maroo won the Year 7 section in this category with her eloquent and moving poem, ‘Locked In’ which encapsulates…
Ealing Foodbank
September donations needed. This is a time of great need for many people. The Ealing Foodbank has contacted us to ask if people are able to assist with their latest shopping list. Their stocks are dwindling and they say that there was a 4909 kg gap between donations received and food distributed in August. They…
Premiere at the BBC Proms 2020
Composer Hannah Kendall. The BBC Proms, the annual festival of classical music, is enjoyed every year by millions. In 2020, the festival ran from 17th July until the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 12th September. This year, owing to the pandemic, it was unfortunately not possible to hold live concerts from the beginning…