Category: Sixth Form

18th November 2015

Upper VI student elected We are delighted to announce that Pervin Kaur, student in the Upper VI at St Augustine’s Priory, has recently been elected the new Youth Mayor for Ealing. Pervin said that, ‘Being Youth Mayor for Ealing is giving me a platform to be the voice of youth, to advocate our views on…

13th November 2015

Mathematicians triumph! The Senior (Sixth Form) Maths Challenge 2015 took place last week.  This is an annual competition organised by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust which tests A Level mathematicians and challenges them to solve some frighteningly difficult problems. The results were announced last night and we were thrilled to hear that Ririko Yoshie (Upper…

9th November 2015

Oxbridge interview practice Several Upper Sixth Formers from the John Lyon School in Harrow were our guests today as they visited St Augustine’s Priory to take part in some practice interviews in preparation for their Oxbridge interviews.  At the same time, our Upper VI Oxford and Cambridge candidates visited the John Lyon school for their…

3rd November 2015

The next step towards the future… We reported on our recent Sixth Form Open Evening in a previous Priory Post (16th October).  Held on Thursday 15th October, it came at the end of a day when our Upper V students attended Sixth Form classes to enjoy a taste of Sixth Form Life at St Augustine’s…

20th October 2015

Calling all competitors! This term has seen a feast of poetry: from pupils, parents and staff members.  We would now like to continue this with the Poetry By Heart Competition, which is open to girls in Lower V and above. This is a national competition with the first round taking place in schools.  The St…

16th October 2015

Options for the future After enjoying a day shadowing our Sixth Form, our current Upper V girls and their parents and prospective Sixth Formers from other schools yesterday attended our Sixth Form Open Evening.  Current Sixth Formers were on hand to welcome our guests with our Sixth Form prospectus and handbook which lists all the…

13th October 2015

Reviews from the current Lower VI… In advance of the Sixth Form Open evening on Thursday 15th October, some of the current Lower VI share their views on the additional subjects available to study in the Sixth Form at St Augustine’s Priory.  So, for those of you studying for GCSEs at the moment, do have…

5th October 2015

Kew Literary Festival 2015 Earlier this year we featured an article on the up-coming Literary Festival, Write on Kew.  One of its organisers was a Lower V parent, Ms Burgess.  We now hear from Grace Lozinski, Upper V Alpha, who tells us of her experience attending the event. ‘From Friday 25th to Sunday 27th September,…

2nd October 2015

A host of activities celebrating literature The Juniors have had a great week celebrating the wonderful world of literature.  Monday saw the author, Tony Bradman, visiting the school and not only reading from his work to the Juniors, but also conducting some sessions on creative writing and the work of an author (see interview below)….

30th September 2015

Upper VI Former’s Mural Our theme for this academic year is Courage.  Courage takes many forms, sometimes a momentary blaze of bravery, but, more often, a steady perseverance and steadfast resolution over a long period of time. We are extremely fortunate at St Augustine’s Priory to have an array of talented pupils who are committed…