Category: Whole School
‘A Budget Cinderella’
Priory Players’ Pantomime Our Head of Drama and Managing Director of the Priory Players, Ms Brown, reports on the Priory Players’ Christmas production: ‘On Friday 9th December the Priory Players staged this year’s school panto ‘A Budget Cinderella’ and it was a triumph. Bhakti Patel, the company’s production manager, co-directed the play with me and…
Language Learning
An academic analysis Language learning has long been a staple part of our Junior School curriculum with French recently having been joined by Spanish and Mandarin. We are very fortunate that this has continuously been delivered by not only native speakers, but also language-teaching specialists. Therefore when the Government, in 2014, made it compulsory for…
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…