Category: Senior
Visit by Ealing MP
“You can do it” This was the way in which Dr Rupa Huq MP, Ealing Central and Acton, left an attentive audience of St Augustine’s Priory pupils on Friday 29th April, following an encouraging speech about modern democracy and life as a Member of Parliament. Dr Huq encouraged our girls not only to ensure they…
Space Seeds
STEM: a voyage of discovery The Science department of St Augustine’s Priory has been successful in their application to take part in a collaborative project between the Royal Horticultural Society and the UK Space Agency: ‘Rocket Science’, a national initiative to turn curious school pupils into space biologists! The rocket seeds, which this time last…
Running Wild
Augustinians cast in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production “A story of love, loss, loyalty and of living for the moment.” That sounds like a tall order. Love, an emotion one would expect to be encouraged in a Catholic school; Loss, an inevitable experience that requires a balance of anguish and optimism impossible at any…
Music News
From the Director of Music Four weeks into term and it is wonderful to hear the sound of rehearsals underway at lunchtimes, before and after school. A number of ensembles have chosen to mark this year’s Shakespeare anniversary in creative ways. The Senior Orchestra has started rehearsing the Dance of the Clowns from Mendelssohn’s music…
Youth Mayor of Ealing raises funds for charity
The Little Princess Trust During her year in office, Pervin Kaur, Upper VI student at St Augustine’s Priory and Youth Mayor of Ealing, is working hard on several issues including fundraising for The Little Princess Trust, a charity which provides real hair wigs to children across the UK and Ireland who have lost their own…
Schools Science Prize 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…
Lower IV Alpha and Trees for Earth
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…
Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Practice Expedition
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…
Upper IVA’s Retreat experience
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…
STEM
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….