Category: Senior

Priory Post 126 – Poetry keeps on ruling!

27th August 2015

Poetry keeps on ruling! Lower VI Poet is published One of our Lower VI poets and Creative Writing students, Alexia Kirov, has had one of her poem’s published in the Thursday 23rd April edition of The Morning Star.  Her poem, ‘Stuffed Monkeys’ was produced in the Well Versed section, a site well regarded for the…

Priory Post 129 – Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

27th August 2015

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Sixth Form Expeditions Join the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award!  Why?  Read this article by Billie Morrison, our in-coming Head Girl, who writes about two recent unforgettable Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award weekends. ‘On the weekend of 13th – 15th March 2015, five brave Augustinian girls and their incredible teachers went on…

Priory Post 130 – Thanksgiving Liturgy

27th August 2015

Thanksgiving Liturgy Upper V prepare for GCSEs The Chapel is the centre of our school community and where we mark major milestones.  Yesterday was one of these occasions when Upper V celebrated their Thanksgiving Liturgy with friends, family and staff prior to the start of their GCSEs. We all joined together to give thanks for…

Priory Post 133 – Poems from the Priory

27th August 2015

Poems from the Priory Upper IV to Sixth Form Workshops Our always successful Tom Warner poetry workshops are now in their third year.  This year over twenty students from Upper IV to the Sixth Form have enjoyed and benefitted from these workshops run by the poet, Tom Warner.  The students take part in blocks of…

Priory Post 134 – Religious Studies visit

27th August 2015

Religious Studies visit Upper VI visit the Buddhist Vihara Here is a report from the recent visit of Upper VI to the London Buddhist Vihara, a centre for Theravada Buddhism. Founded in 1926 by Anagarika Dharmapala, the Vihara was the first Buddhist monastery to be established outside the continent of Asia. ‘On Monday 27th April we visited the London Buddhist…

Priory Post 135 – Three Faiths Forum Link Day

27th August 2015

Three Faiths Forum Link Day Upper IV go kayaking!   For our final Three Faiths Forum link day with Unity Girls’ High School, Mrs McDermott brought five Upper IV girls to the Welsh Harp Reservoir in West Hendon on Friday 1st May. The activity was a two hour kayaking session with the Phoenix Canoe Club….

Priory Post 138 – Teenage Cancer Trust

27th August 2015

Teenage Cancer Trust Form III and Lower IV make plans On Wednesday 6th May Form III and Lower IV heard a talk from the Teenage Cancer Trust by Emma who talked to the girls about fundraising and explained what the charity offers to their patients. Mariella King, Lower IV Alpha, reports on the effect learning…

Priory Post 141 – Examinations

27th August 2015

Examinations From the Counsellor’s Chair Mrs R Good, the School Counsellor, gives some advice on how to deal with examinations: ‘Normal levels of stress can help you work, think faster and more effectively, and improve your performance.  It’s normal to be anxious around exam times.  If your anxiety becomes overwhelming your performance can be adversely…

Priory Post 144 – Walking a Hill for Nepal

27th August 2015

Walking a Hill for Nepal Lower V and staff climb Horsenden Hill ‘We’re taking a walk in the park for those in Nepal whose lives are far from a walk in the park’.  So said Mr Ian Chappory, Geography Department, about the Fundraising Friday climb for Nepal on Horsenden Hill this afternoon, Friday 22nd May….

Priory Post 82 – Young Enterprise

26th August 2015

Young Enterprise Lower VI and ‘Innovatrix’ Lower VI’s Young Enterprise group, ‘Innovatrix’ is going from strength to strength.  Young Enterprise’s mission statement is ‘to inspire and equip young people to learn and succeed through enterprise’.  Its guiding principle is to do this through ‘learning by doing’. Innovatrix is certainly accomplishing this.  You will remember them…

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