Category: Senior

24th April 2017

Mr J Powell, Bursar Our new Bursar, Mr Jonathan Powell, joined St Augustine’s Priory in January and claims to have been so busy since then that he has not had time to draft this article. Having previously served in the Royal Navy and then in the charity sector, he says that the transition has been…

21st April 2017

The Week of Monday 24th April Banning the ivory trade, malaria, living below sea level and autism – some of the topics covered in Mr Salmon’s selection of talks taking place over the next week. Begin the Summer Term by stretching your parameters and explore some of the issues highlighted below!  For more information on…

21st April 2017

‘You mean as much to the school as the school means to you.’ Leah Mpinga, Lower VI It is always so impressive to watch our girls striving to achieve their goals.  Inspiring because they are so young and so driven, and heart-warming because of the many ways in which they attribute their qualities to their…

21st April 2017

Events so far this year Dr Higgins, our Director of Music, reports on St Augustine’s Priory’s musical events since January. ‘The Lent Term was one of extraordinary productivity and output for the Music Department with several projects coming to fruition. After six months of hard work and practice, the school production, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’…

20th April 2017

‘My Name is Nobody’ One of the most famous journeys of all time was that of Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’, the tale of Odysseus’ epic, ten year journey home after the Trojan War. As a response to ‘The Odyssey’, Europe’s second oldest poem, the BBC has…

31st March 2017

Our Mathematicians compete For our Mathematicians it has been an exciting term. The latest competition was the UK Mathematics Trust (UKMT) Team Challenge held at Trinity School, Croydon, earlier in March.  Four pupils from Lower IV and Upper IV attended:  Siya Sehgal, Kyoka Iwami (Lower IV), Katie Fung and Naomi Jeffries (Upper IV). Mr Pereira,…

31st March 2017

Bronze Training Weekend On the weekend of 24th – 26th March our candidates for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze Award left St Augustine’s Priory for their training weekend at Margaret Macmillan House near Meopham, Kent.  Mr Salmon, one of the teachers accompanying the group, here tells his story… ‘There were good times, there were bad…

31st March 2017

Celebrating Books Back in February we announced a national competition being held by the SPECS network (a nationwide network of opticians – Specialist Providers of Eye Care Solutions network) to celebrate World Book Day on 2nd March.  Local optician, ‘Eyes on the Common’, supported this competition which promoted the SPECS Eye Health Campaign built around World Book Day, with an…

31st March 2017

Marking the end of term Today, the last day of the Lent Term, we marked the season of Lent with two liturgies, one for Seniors and one for Juniors, comprising the Stations of the Cross. We thought that we would share the resource used for these liturgies with you; the CAFOD Stations of the Cross….

29th March 2017

‘You can find magic wherever you look.  Sit back and relax, all you need is a book’, Dr. Seuss. It was Book Week here at St Augustine’s Priory last week, and it was an adventure from start to finish.  On Monday 20th March pupils were greeted in the Preps’ playground by Captain Hook, Peter Pan,…