Category: Senior

23rd March 2017

The Week of Monday 27th March and the Easter Holidays Revolution in healthcare, the effect of the colour red, cybersecurity and conserving the mountain chicken – just some of the talks offered next week and during the Easter holidays in a list which Mr Salmon has put together for your edification and enjoyment. Do ask…

23rd March 2017

A Joint Project On Friday 17th March St Augustine’s Priory, together with St Benedict’s Senior School, held a joint Careers Event at St Benedict’s.  Here, Elise Mercer, Lower VI, writes about the evening: ‘On Friday 17th March, Priory 6 attended a joint event with St Benedict’s. We were given the task of creating a product…

23rd March 2017

We were delighted to welcome Mona Arshi, poet, former human rights lawyer and current St Augustine’s Priory parent, to St Augustine’s Priory on Wednesday 22nd March to run a poetry workshop.  Here, Mr Elder of the English Department and Zara Al-Naher of Lower V tell us more: “One of the strengths of the English Department at St…

22nd March 2017

Miss Isabel Upcraft stepped in as Headteacher for the Day on Friday 17th March.  Miss Upcraft decreed that the Senior school would be allowed to wear nail varnish and have their hair down for the day, while her year group, Lower IV Alpha, would have a mufti day.  The acting Headteacher, along with her colleagues,…

22nd March 2017

La cuisine de l’amour: The Food of Love Form III are producing their own book of poetry – in French! The days leading up to St Valentine’s Day in February were an occasion when Form III Form III expanded not only their French language skills but also their culinary knowledge. Ms Gandi, Modern Languages Department,…

21st March 2017

Cross-Curricular activity Our 2017 school production ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and its rapidly growing carnivorous character ‘Audrey II’ inspired much cross-curricular activity here at St Augustine’s Priory. Here, Mrs Bennet, Head of Maths, reveals all that was involved: ‘As soon as we knew that the school drama production this year was to be Little Shop…

21st March 2017

Book Week is upon us with all the wonders of the world of books ready and waiting to be explored!  The poster below gives you some idea of how we are celebrating literature this week at St Augustine’s Priory.

20th March 2017

What affects bread rising?  Does colour affect what we eat?  How does sight affect your balance?    British Science Week is a celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).  From Monday 13th – Friday 17th March pupils and teachers at St Augustine’s Priory embraced the chance to get hands-on with their subjects.  Lessons at…

16th March 2017

Debut Poetry Collection Prize 2016 Congratulations to Mr Neil Elder, English Department, who is joint winner of the Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Prize 2016. Mr Elder organises the Tom Warner and Holly Hopkins poetry workshops at St Augustine’s Priory and edits ‘Poems from the Priory’, our annual booklet of pupils’ poetry from these workshops….

16th March 2017

Working for change This week, Lower IV Alpha organised Assembly with the theme of caring for the environment and not being wasteful. In response to a very thought-provoking assembly, the Director of Music and Lower IV Alpha’s Form Tutor, Dr Higgins, made the decision to refrain from printing paper copies of the programme for the…