Category: Senior
Looking forward to Book Week
Literary News. With an eye on our soon-to-begin journey into our Book Week next week, and the visits of authors Sylvia Bishop and Sita Brahmachari, we thought you would be interested in reading the following review of Mr Elder’s recent publication. ‘Like This’. Mr Elder, who is Head of our English Department, has published several…
Library and Book Week News
Successful Bookbuzz and Book Week! Thursday 3rd March is the 25th anniversary of World Book Day and has, as its theme, ‘You Are a Reader’. We are looking forward to celebrating all things literary in that week in our Book Week. We have already begun our celebrations as Form lll and Lower lV received their…
Headteacher’s Blog
We are Creating Space for Truthful Conversations. RADIO We have been involved in the Faith and Belief Forum’s school linking programme since November 2010. We are currently linked with the Jewish Community Secondary School in Chipping Barnet. Previously, we were also linked with Unity Girls School, a Muslim school in Hendon, before they relocated. As…
Wellness Week
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week. As we look forward to celebrating Wellness Week next week, looking at all aspects of wellness, Mrs R Good, our Counsellor and Play Therapist writes about Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week. ‘Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week is taking place this year from 7th – 13th February, the eighth annual event…
The Life of a Priory Farm Manager
Become involved! We are so fortunate in that we have a farm at St Augustine’s Priory. The Priory Farm hosts an allotment, chickens, ducks and sheep. All our pupils are able to visit the Priory Farm and become involved. From the youngest pupil who learns how to tend the allotment and visit the animals to…
Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Column
Inclusion Committee and Chinese New Year. Tuesday 1st February was the start of the Chinese year of the tiger. Prisha in Upper VI and her colleagues on the Inclusion Committee prepared a beautiful presentation for the Senior Assembly. First they asked pupils what they knew already about Chinese New Year and then took the Seniors…
Hestia
A wonderful ‘thank you’. Hestia was one of the charities for which we raised funds at the 2021 Carol Service and, thanks to the generosity of our parents, we were able to send them £494.17. We were thrilled to receive a video from Hestia thanking us for our contribution which was played at the Senior…
Upper II historians
Ealing at War. Following the extraordinary event of this week, when an unexploded World War II bomb was found on a building site just beyond our school grounds, we thought it might be interesting to say something about Ealing at war, a time when people tried to go about their daily lives while living with…
Let’s All Talk Mental Health
Online talks. The Let’s all Talk Mental Health 2022 season has started and we would recommend the course to parents. The organisation offers ‘informative, incisive and practical help from leading experts to support parents and carers of teens struggling with their mental health.’ ‘The Let’s all Talk Teen Mental Health 2022 Season is a series…
Holocaust Memorial Day
Remembering. Thursday 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day, remembering those millions of people who were persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust. To mark this at St Augustine’s Priory Ms Brown reports that in Monday’s Senior Assembly, ‘Ava and Mary in Upper IV Aleph interviewed Clare Lawlor from the Imperial War Museum Holocaust Galleries about the…