Category: Whole School
Cipher Club and the 2016 Soton Cipher Competition
Deciphering the ciphers Mrs Bennet, Mathematics Department, reports on the progress of the 2016 Soton Cipher Competition and the mathematical maze through which our students are finding their way! ‘So far the Priory Decoders and the Cipher Guild (our two teams from Upper IV and Lower V) have managed to decrypt all of the challenges…
Hanwell Homeless Concern
Priory Purpose Thank you to Amy-Elizabeth Roye of Upper VI, who wrote the following to parents last week on behalf of Priory Purpose, the charity movement set up by the Sixth Form. “Every year St Augustine’s Priory helps to support a local charity, ‘Hanwell Homeless Concern’. Miss Sylvia Clayton, a former St Augustine’s Priory teacher,…
Holy Family Parish Christmas Carol Concert
A Christmas community On Sunday 11th December a choir led by Mrs Cotton and Miss Johnson from St Augustine’s Priory was delighted to perform at the Holy Family Church’s Carol Concert together with the Iraqi Choir from the parish and the choir from the Holy Family Catholic Primary School. Fr Neil, Parish Priest at the…
Prep III visit the National Gallery
Studying the Nativity Mrs Lubowiecka, Form Teacher, Prep III, reports on the recent artistic discoveries of Prep III at the National Gallery… ‘On Thursday 1st December Prep III visited the National Gallery to learn more about the Nativity Paintings they had been studying as part of their R.E. topic this term. Our guide, Jocelyn, was…
What’s On for Priory 6
The Week of Monday 12th December to the holidays! Discover nature inspired engineering, virtual reality, and enjoy our Carol Service – all these are happening next week. For more information contact Mr Salmon. Links are attached. Monday 12th December Maximise your performance: RSM, 6.30pm, free, need to register. Olympic bronze medallist and double World Champion rower, Sarah Winckless will talk…
Advent
‘The Coming’ We hope that you will enjoy the following poem, ‘The Coming’, which brings home to us the deliberate decision of the Son of God to come down to earth for us.
Debate of the Day
Sky News coverage Three of our Senior pupils took part in today’s Sky News ‘Debate of the Day’. Charlotte Higham, Lucy Williams and Elise Mercer were interviewed at St Augustine’s Priory yesterday for the news story about the forthcoming ban in July 2017 on pop-up adverts for food on social media and online which will…
The Nursery Nativity
The birth of Jesus retold The Nursery Nativity, ‘Our First Nativity’, on Wednesday 7th December was a classic re-telling of the birth of Jesus. Mary and Joseph, the donkey, shepherds, the three Kings, the innkeeper and the angels all played their part in this production, performed in front of a Nursery full of parents and…
Piera Cuttica
Priory 6 Careers Speakers We were so pleased to welcome Piera Cuttica, Head of Post Production at Manor Production Services and the most recent in our series of guest speakers, to the school last Thursday 1st December 2016. The following was sent to us by Piera Cuttica, summarizing her Careers Talk which she kindly presented…
Prep I and Prep II’s Nativity
‘Baboushka’ takes centre stage Prep I and Prep II joined forces on Tuesday 6th December for their Christmas Nativity, ‘Baboushka’, heralding the start of our Advent festivities. The Chapel was filled with parents and friends ready to enjoy this first of our Nativity plays. ‘Baboushka’ is a wonderful play about a Russian woman, the Baboushka…