Category: Whole School
Year of Mercy Pilgrimage
Catholic Primary Schools join together On Tuesday 5th July St Augustine’s Priory was privileged to be the last stage in the Ealing Deanery Catholic Primary Schools’ Pilgrimage to mark the Year of Mercy. Over the last few weeks, primary schools from all over the deanery had marked the Year of Mercy with a pilgrimage, journeying…
Languages in the Junior School
Achievements in learning ‘To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.’ (from a Chinese proverb) Ms Assemat, Modern Foreign Languages Junior Co-ordinator, speaks about the achievements this year of our Junior school linguists! ‘As the Junior Co-ordinator for Modern Languages, I am eager to share the…
Form III and the Good Samaritan Mass
Westminster Cathedral On Tuesday 21st June the Good Samaritan Mass was held at Westminster Cathedral, celebrating the work of schools for the Crisis Fund of the Catholic Children’s Society, Westminster. Dilichi Dieobi, Form III Alpha, was privileged to read at the Mass and said, ‘I was lucky enough to read a bidding prayer at the…
Hola! from Lower VI
A Level Spanish students visit the BFI Friday 24th June saw the A Level Spanish students visit the British Film Institute for a study day on the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, ‘Almodóvar on the Edge – All about His Films’ Here is an account of the day from several of the students involved. In case there…
Ealing in Bloom
Lower II and Upper II guides to the grounds On Tuesday 28th June we welcomed the judges from the Ealing in Bloom competition who had come to judge our grounds for this year’s competition. The categories under which our grounds were judged were maintenance, plants, features and children’s involvement. To show them round the grounds…
Meeting Members of Staff…
Miss A Burrell, Head of Biology In September 2016 we will be joined by Miss Aisling Burrell as Head of Biology. Here she writes introducing herself to us: ‘I am Aisling Burrell and I will be joining the Biology Department at St Augustine’s Priory in September as Head of Biology. I have a first class…
Space Seeds part 2
STEM: the results of a unique voyage On 6th May we wrote of an exciting Space Seeds project, in which pupils took part in a national initiative called ‘Rocket Science’, a collaborative project between the Royal Horticultural Society and the UK Space Agency. Form III enjoyed planting the seeds back in May and have since…
Preps I and II visit Odds Farm
Animals galore On Thursday 23rd June Preps I and II went on an expedition to Odds Farm Park in Wooburn Common. They had a wonderful time, meeting lots of animals and even attending a sheep race. Here are some of the accounts of the day from members of Prep II: Audrey writes, ‘First we went…
Lower V complete their expedition
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Bronze Award At St Augustine’ Priory we have encouraged girls to take part in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for many years, with girls achieving Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. Lucy Jacks, Lower VA, takes us through the latest episode in the life of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award at St…
Prep II and Laudato Si’
Correspondence with Pope Francis Last year Pope Francis wrote to the world with his encyclical “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”, urging us to care for our home, the planet Earth, and all that it contained. After we celebrated Laudato Si’ week last week with several initiatives designed to help…