Category: Sixth Form
Musical Endeavours
A virtual achievement. Learning a musical instrument is a thoroughly rewarding endeavour, but is it something that can be pursued in the current climate, where learning online may sound a challenge too far? Let Naomi, one of our Upper VI students, dispel any doubts you may have! Her achievement this year is a testament to…
Priory 6 Travel Scholarships
Something to aim for! Each year, Priory 6 girls are invited to submit applications for the St Augustine’s Priory Travel Scholarships. We always receive some fascinating proposals from girls wanting to explore the distant reaches of our planet. This year was no exception and two projects have been selected to be awarded the scholarship. Prisha…
‘Whole Being’
Now and Beyond Mental Health Festival. St Augustine’s Priory is celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week (1st – 7th February) with a programme of activities that everyone can become involved in, with the highlight being Wednesday 3rd February’s ‘Now and Beyond Mental Health Festival’. Both Juniors and Seniors have a programme of activities planned with Juniors…
Partnership in action
Walking and working together. During the first lockdown last year, Priory Purpose, the Sixth Form student-led initiative that seeks to serve the community through fundraising via projects such as their annual Fright Night, created a website called Creativity Counts. Moved by how so many children had no access to creative learning our Sixth Form sought to help…
Fratelli Tutti
Accompanying with an open heart. On 4th October last year, the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, the Vatican released the latest encyclical by Pope Francis, ‘Fratelli Tutti’. Mrs McDermott, Head of Religious Studies, here tells us about a recent online training session led by Fr Eamonn Mulcahy on ‘Fratelli Tutti’. ‘Fr Eamonn is a…
Seniors and the environment
Earthshot competition. This morning at Assembly, Mrs Raffray announced the winners in our Earthshot competition. You will remember that last November we wrote about The Earthshot Prize, whose website stated, ‘The Earthshot Prize is the most prestigious global environment prize in history, designed to incentivise change and help repair our planet over the next ten…
2020 in Ten Poems
Poem of the Week. No-one who viewed the inauguration of President Biden this week could have been failed to be moved by the power of poet Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Day 2021 poem, ‘The Hill We Climb’. Although written especially for the day and speaking about the United States, there were lines that resonated with everyone…
Upper VI and religion
World Religion Day 2021. Mrs McDermott, Head of Religious Studies, reports that, ‘Last Sunday,17th January was World Religion Day, celebrated by the Baha’i and other groups. This day promotes interfaith understanding by emphasizing factors common to all faiths. It was first introduced among Baha’i communities in the 1950s, and is now celebrated by a wider…
Testing, testing, testing
St Augustine’s Priory Test Site. In her video this week, we are led by Headteacher Mrs Raffray on a tour of the test site at St Augustine’s Priory. Here, staff who are coming into the school and the children of critical workers are able to access lateral flow tests for Covid-19 on a weekly…
Selection Day 2021
An innovative start to the New Year. Mrs Savic, the St Augustine’s Priory Registrar, reports on this year’s unusual Selection Day: ‘This year’s 11+ Selection Day was like no other in that we did not have any written tests but instead an extended interview via Zoom. The current national lockdown has meant that we could…