Category: Senior

29th April 2016

Corpus Christi College Oxford Science Competition Corpus Christi College, Oxford, has announced the categories for their annual Schools Science Competition. There are two categories this year, firstly Biomedical Sciences in which they require an essay outlining one experiment or test on a sample of organic matter from Mars.  The other category is Chemistry: write an…

29th April 2016

Online petition Last Friday, Lower IV Alpha presented their assembly on the topic of Earth Day 2016. The theme of Earth Day this year is ‘Trees for Earth.’ The Earth Day Network has pledged to aim to plant 7.8 billion trees by 2020 – a tree for every person on Earth. The class were so…

28th April 2016

Battling the Weather On 27th March, the Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award participants from St Augustine’s Priory along with Ms Hayden and Mr Thomas journeyed to Machynlleth, Wales to take part in their training and practice expedition. The girls had to deal with rough terrain and weather, and demonstrated extraordinary perseverance and an upbeat attitude…

28th April 2016

Exploring Theology Here, Shahla Ghodrat, Upper IVA, reports on Upper IVA’s recent Retreat, held at SPEC, the residential retreat centre for children and young people in the Diocese of Westminster. ‘On 26th April, Upper IVA visited SPEC where we explored the nature of God. SPEC is the residential retreat centre for children and young people…

22nd April 2016

The leader’s perspective.  Role models are as relevant to young people today as they have ever been. The constant vying of ‘celebrities’ to monopolise young people’s attention makes it difficult to identify a ‘role model’. What now is our definition? Surely society’s paradigm of the ideal… does not comprise merely a presence on Sky Atlantic….

21st April 2016

A focus on the Mass More news from our Director of Music, Mr Martin, re musical news this week: ‘The Summer Term has got off to a fine start and congratulations are due to all the girls who took an ABRSM instrumental exam last term. It was an excellent set of results with a 100%…

15th April 2016

The next chapter Schools exist for young people. It follows then that the involvement of young people in the leadership of academic institutions is not only sensible, but necessary. By providing girls with greater ownership of their educational experience, we ensure they develop the skills to manage their own direction in life, which in a…

15th April 2016

Melodies abound during the Summer Term Mr Martin, Director of Music, looks back on the Spring Concert at the end of the Lent Term and reports on the events we can look forward to this Summer Term. ‘Last term’s stand-out musical event at St Augustine’s Priory was the end-of-term Spring Concert, and what a magnificent…

15th April 2016

Lower IV girls run the Junior London Mini Marathon Pupils raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital At 6.30am next Sunday morning, 24th April, Lizzy Higham and Mia Simpson, Lower IV Alpha, have an early start to the day.  They will be at Ealing Town Hall ready to be transported to central London to run…

14th April 2016

Lent Collection feeds thousands with fish The final newsletter of Lent Term commenced with a message from Mrs Raffray which highlighted the many freedoms we in the UK enjoy and which other people, in other places, are not so fortunate to experience. The backdrop to this reflection was a Monday morning assembly in which the…