Category: Senior

16th November 2017

Preparation for lifelong success On Monday 13th November our first ever Form III Taster Afternoon took place, a new initiative thought up by Mrs Knowles, Deputy Head, Juniors, and Mrs Gosling, Senior Form Teacher, Form III.  You will have read in last week’s article (http://sapriory.com/priory-post/preparation-lifelong-success/) that on Taster Day, Upper II spend an afternoon as…

16th November 2017

Visitors from Sainte-Marie de Neuilly Wednesday 15th November was a red-letter day in the annals of St Augustine’s Priory.  We were delighted to welcome two visitors from a Parisian school, Sainte-Marie de Neuilly: Véronique Philouze, Directrice Collège-Lycée, and Sabine Chauvet, Responsable de division 5ème. But Sainte-Marie de Neuilly is no ordinary school.  You may remember…

10th November 2017

A Half Term expedition From Wednesday 25th to Saturday 28th October girls from throughout the Seniors took part in a visit to the ancient world by visiting Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Accounts of the visit have been produced by several members of the group. Naomi Nnatu, Form III,…

9th November 2017

Form III Taster Afternoon We are constantly striving to ensure that girls benefit from being at an all-through school; Junior school girls are increasingly taught by Senior school teachers as they progress up the school, the Big Sister Little Sister programme buddies up new Form III girls for their first year in the Senior School,…

9th November 2017

St Augustine’s Priory’s spookiest annual fundraiser Back in April this year our current Sixth Form Leadership Team were candidates for office making presentations to Upper II and the rest of the Senior School about their aims and vision should they be elected as School Officials. The girls made a lasting impression, a recurring theme being…

9th November 2017

LB TE HC EL PY RA XK Mr Dellow, Head of ICT, tells us about the visit, on Friday 20th October, of Upper IV to Bletchley Park: ‘After a half term of breaking codes and ciphers, Upper IV Computing students were rewarded with a trip to Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes. This is the department’s second…

26th October 2017

Lower V Sports Scholars As we look back on a half term which has seen us sponsor the Ealing Mini Mile at which a large number of our girls competed and achieved excellent results and a wonderful array of fixtures every week, we rounded off this half term with three of our runners being selected…

25th October 2017

Last Friday 20th October our Parents’ Committee annual fireworks display, Priory Pyrotechnics, once again lit up the early autumn sky over our Ealing grounds. The evening took place at the bottom of the field thus providing St Augustine’s Priory as a dramatic backdrop to the fireworks. Staff, parents and girls manned the stalls, from Priory…

24th October 2017

On Tuesday 17th October 2017 Anastasia Pollard came to St Augustine’s Priory to give staff and students a live 4-hour portrait painting demonstration. Anastasia studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Florence Academy of Art. Her work has been seen in the annual exhibitions of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and was previously…

19th October 2017

Girls are motivated by 100% scores in Accelerated Reader quizzes Form III girls Naomi Nnatu, Katherine O’Neill and Mattie Green all scored 100% in the Accelerated Reader quizzes they took recently. Funded by our wonderful Parents’ Committee, the Accelerated Reader quizzes not only give pupils immediate online feedback on their reading but build reports that…