Category: Whole School
Spring at St Augustine’s Priory
The grounds wake from winter. The grounds at St Augustine’s Priory are beautifully coming into their own with Spring definitely in the air. Daffodils, the heralds of Spring, are trumpeting the new season and blossoms and buds are running riot. It seems strange to see the grounds and animals at St Augustine’s Priory without…
Lower VI researchers
Pax Christi. Lower VI has not let the grass grow under their feet. In today’s remote learning lesson (24th March), Mrs McDermott, Head of R.E., gave them a mission to research and write about Pax Christi, the international organisation which works for peace based on the gospel. Over the last half term Priory 6 has…
Ethical Leadership Programme
Priory 6 and Trusted Friends. Ljilja Vincic is one of three Priory pupils participating in the Ethical Leadership programme. They are involved in designing projects which will recognise and develop their leadership qualities and skills for life. The Ethical Leadership Programme is a student-focused qualification designed to recognise character skills and leadership qualities, while enabling…
Priory 6 Space Designers
UK Space Design Competition 2020 finals. Marie Corsini, past pupil, engineer, and an enormous guide and mentor to our Priory 6 scientists, reports on the UK Space Design Competition finals, held at Imperial College London on the weekend of 14th and 15th March 2020, which came at the end of our own STEAM week. ‘On…
Upper I visit the André Malraux School
An afternoon of French culture! Monday 9th March saw Upper I visit the André Malraux School for an afternoon of French culture. Ms Gandi, Teacher of French and Spanish reports on their visit: ‘On Monday afternoon we went to the French Primary school André Malraux in Hanwell. Upper I had previously exchanged some information about themselves…
Book celebrations continue
Visit of Frank Cottrell-Boyce. The visit of author Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Friday 13th March was an amazing finale to the previous week’s celebrations of Book Week and World Book Day. Mr Cottrell-Boyce has written sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, won the 2004 Carnegie Medal for ‘Millions’ and the 2012 Guardian Prize for ‘The Unforgotten…
Ealing Teen Read 2020
The Final. Tuesday 10th March saw the Final of the 2020 Ealing Teen Read at Dormers Wells School which was attended by many of our Ealing Teen Readers, Mrs Bhatti, Mr Elder, Mrs King and Mrs George. As Mrs Bhatti, School Librarian, commented, ‘The Ealing Teen Read 2020 has been an amazing journey through the…
Fright Night Fantastic!
Learning On Screen Awards. With the amazing news that the film directed by Priory 6 pupil, Taline Manuelian, for Fright Night 2019 has been shortlisted for the Learning On Screen Awards 2020 in the Promotional Film Award category, we thought that you would like to see the shortlisted film! The results will be announced at…
Buddy Writers for Budding Writers
Creative Writing Workshop. One of the most inspiring events during Book Week was the creative writing workshop for Form III which was run by two writers from Upper IV, Ariana and Isabelle. Here they talk about the experience: Ariana Buckland commented: ‘On Wednesday 4th March during lunchtime, we held a workshop aimed towards Form III….
World Book Day and Book Week
The Year of the Word. From a rock that David threw at Goliath to Queen Esther to an entire Nativity scene the pupils and staff at St Augustine’s Priory threw themselves into World Book Day on Thursday and its theme of characters from the Bible. Pupils dressed as characters from the Old and New Testaments…