Category: Sixth Form
Lower V and Lower VI visit Imperial
A day of insights. As a follow-up to Women’s Wellness Week, on Thursday 21st June, Lower V and Lower VI visited Imperial College to the Hammersmith Medical Research Centre. This experience enabled girls to seriously consider STEM careers, but also emphasised the importance of being aware of our bodies and wellbeing. Aditi Jadhav, Lower VI,…
Travel Scholars
An international opportunity. The St Augustine’s Priory travel scholarships contribute towards enabling our girls to gain valuable experience overseas. Our travel scholars this year are Priory 6 pupils Portia Laryea-Adu and Ljiljana Krneta. Their travels will be taking them far and wide and they will be undertaking work in very different countries. Here they tell…
ADA rules supreme
A puzzling challenge. Mr Dellow, Head of e-Learning and ICT, and his team embarked on another challenge this year. He takes up the story, ‘After the success of last year’s Escape Room, it was decided that a follow-up was required. This year saw a change of the format as, instead of being locked in a…
Priory 6 visit Stratford-upon-Avon
Studying ‘The Duchess of Malfi’. Studying Webster’s ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ for A Level, Banu Ali, Priory 6, reports on the recent visit of English Literature students to see a production by the RSC in Stratford. ‘On Friday 15th June, the Lower VI English Literature students went to Stratford-upon-Avon to see an absolutely breath-taking production…
Sharing the Journey
CAFOD campaign. ‘Share the Journey’, CAFOD’s campaign of awareness raising of the plight of refugees saw Augustinians of all ages – from Nursery to Priory 6 to staff and parents walking around the school grounds last week. Throughout the week, from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd June each class gathered in our Chapel and then…
The Miraculum Children’s Choir
Inspirational visitors. This week has seen some extraordinary visitors come to St Augustine’s Priory. We welcomed the Miraculum Children’s Choir from the Kodály School in Kecskemét, Hungary. Led by László Durányik, this world-famous choir has won accolades and awards for over twenty years and we were delighted to welcome them to Ealing as first stop…
Women’s Wellness Week
An inaugural event. Women’s Wellness Week, held last week at St Augustine’s Priory, was an incredible initiative, drawing together our community in awareness raising, discovery and education about how to make choices for a healthy and fulfilling life. To that end we started the week with a powerful talk by Mrs Ransome (see article in…
Blooming in June…
Ealing in Bloom competition. Tuesday 19th June saw us welcome three judges from the Ealing in Bloom competition. We were delighted to be able to show them around our grounds and tell them about all the wonderful things that happen there! Mrs Knowles together with Nancy from Lower I, Alice from Upper I, Ivy and…
Sports Days…
Seniors and Nursery triumph. Senior Sports Day began the week in sunshine and a medley of record breakers and personal bests. The Nursery pupils in their sports day on Tuesday were not so concerned with breaking school records or achieving personal but they had a wonderful time! Ms Hales reports that ten school records were…
Priory 6 at the Palace
RAF Air Cadet on duty. In this, the centenary of the founding of the Royal Air Force, Priory 6 pupil and Air Cadet Heather Woodman was privileged to be involved in a very special occasion. Heather reports: ‘On Thursday 24th May, I found myself lucky enough to be invited to a Garden Party at Buckingham…