Category: Senior
Miraculum Children’s Choir
A date for your diary… We are all looking forward to the visit later in June of the world-renowned Miraculum Children’s Choir from the Kodály Music School in Hungary, directed by Laszlo Durányik. The choir will be visiting us from the evening of Wednesday 20th until the morning of Friday 22nd June. We are privileged…
Racing for Life
A whole school runs. On Sunday 3rd June, a day of glorious sunshine, a strong contingent of girls, parents and staff from the St Augustine’s Priory community running in the Race for Life for Cancer Research UK. Mrs Gosling, Director of Sport, reports: ‘The St Augustine’s Priory pink army assembled for the Race for…
First Holy Communion Celebration
Lower I commemorate a special occasion. Every year at St Augustine’s Priory we celebrate our First Holy Communicants. Over the previous weeks girls in Lower I have received their First Holy Communion in their parishes and we mark this important event in the girls’ lives with a special Mass. Prep III to Upper II, families,…
Priory 6 and Women’s Wellness Week
Plans for the week of 11th – 15th June. In school assemblies on Friday, 25th May, Priory 6 introduced us to the plans for Women’s Wellness Week, running from 11th – 15th June. This will be a packed week of events and talks at St Augustine’s Priory, encompassing many issues which impact on women’s lives. …
From the Counsellor’s Chair
Tips on managing exams for parents. Our School Counsellor, Mrs R Good, has some timely advice for parents during this examinations season. ‘Whilst a certain amount of pressure and worry can motivate some students to revise and achieve in exams, the pressure of exams can feel intolerable for others, activating or intensifying existing feelings of…
The Priory Farm welcomes visitors
St Gregory’s Nursery pupils meet our farm animals. The St Augustine’s Priory Farm is going from strength to strength, providing a wonderful learning environment for children of all ages, whether for science lessons, for those who plan to enter a career working with animals or simply for those who enjoy their company! Last Friday, 18th…
À Paris avec St Augustine’s Priory (Part I)
Lower IV and Upper IV embrace La France. Monday 14th May dawned bright and early for twenty-two Lower IV and Upper IV pupils and four members of staff. They had all managed to get themselves by 5.00a.m. to St Augustine’s Priory where a coach was waiting to whisk them off to St Pancras station to…
Priory 6 and Lower V work together
Conversations for development. Wednesday 2nd May saw Lower VI engage in an initiative designed to help prepare Lower V pupils for life in Priory 6. At the beginning of the afternoon Lower VI pupils advised on A Level subjects to groups of Lower V pupils who rotated from subject station to subject station. This was…
Seniors hear about World War I
Visit from Mr Alan Reed. As part of the History curriculum, a field visit is undertaken to the battlefields of World War I. This year we were privileged to host Mr Alan Reed, an expert on World War I, who came to St Augustine’s Priory on Friday 27th April to speak on the topic and…
Upper IV: Game Changers
Drama production extraordinaire. Wednesday evening saw Upper IV’s latest Drama production, ‘Game Changers’. Ms Brown, Head of Drama, comments, ‘It was wonderful to see Upper IV perform an eclectic selection of scenes and poems by game-changing playwrights on Wednesday evening. We saw a plethora of characters ranging from A.A. Milne’s Wind in the Willows to Steven Berkoff’s Metamorphosis…