Category: Whole School
Priory Pyrotechnics
Firework Fun! Friday 18th October sees the shining Priory Pyrotechnics coming to St Augustine’s Priory again. Our Parents’ Committee have promised an evening of light, splendour and magical fireworks. Now is the time to book your tickets! . Doors open at 6.30pm, with live music, a BBQ, bar and fun stalls for all the family….
Lower II Parents’ Conversation
Dialogue in Action. On Tuesday 1st October Lower II parents met staff in an evening of conversation about life at St Augustine’s Priory and in Lower II. Mrs Knowles, Deputy Head, Juniors first read two extracts from ‘Mind Their Hearts’ by David Boddy: ‘When youngsters are ten years old, something special happens. The intellect starts…
National Poetry Day
Words and Truth. In the same week as the launch of ‘The God Who Speaks – A Year of the Word’, the diocesan theme for the coming year, Thursday 3rd October marked National Poetry Day 2019 and, not only that, but the 25th national Poetry Day! The theme of this year’s National Poetry Day was…
The God Who Speaks
A Year of the Word. Who can forget the mesmeric beginning of the fourth Gospel, the Gospel of St John: ‘In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God.’ The power of these words never fails to move and, following on from last year’s diocesan theme of ‘Adoremus…
Meeting Members of Staff…
Miss T Saunders. The Maths Department is delighted that Miss T Saunders has joined their department this term to teach Maths from Form III to Upper VI. Miss Saunders achieved a First in Physics from Southampton University and has taught at the Reach Academy in Feltham. She is delighted to join St Augustine’s Priory and…
Help with the Harvest
A Bumper Crop. As you know we are busy harvesting our bumper crop of apples to produce apple juice from our over twenty apple trees. We have been crushing, pressing and pasteurising apples (via our crusher, presser and pasteuriser generously donated to us by our Parents’ Committee). Under the guidance of Mr Raffray, pupils from…
Upper VI Summer 2019 Leavers: an evening to remember
Progression 2019. Every year we are delighted to welcome our summer Upper VI leavers to join staff in a formal dinner at St Augustine’s Priory. This occasion marks a turning point in these young women’s lives when they bid farewell to St Augustine’s Priory and look forward to the wonderful opportunities that university brings. …
World Alzheimer’s Month
The Thread of Life at St Augustine’s Priory. September 2019 marks the eighth World Alzheimer’s Month, raising awareness of dementia, the condition which affects so many people worldwide and carries with it so much stigma. At St Augustine’s Priory we believe in lifelong learning, utilising academic subjects and the opportunities they provide to open doors to…
Yourstage
A dramatic opportunity! Ms Hagerty, Director of Priory 6, teaches GCSE and A Level Drama at St Augustine’s Priory, and has just stepped into a new role as Deputy Head (Co-curriculum, Community and Development). Ms Hagerty started running her company Yourstage Drama (then Yourspace) in 2008. The company has gone from strength to strength, and…
‘Dear Big Gods’
Poet Mona Arshi’s latest collection. Award-winning poet and Augustinian parent, Mona Arshi, has recently published her latest, wonderful, collection of poetry, ‘Dear Big Gods’. Published in April 2019, ‘Dear Big Gods’ follows Ms Arshi’s Forward Prize-winning collection, ‘Small Hands’. ‘Dear Big Gods’ is published by Liverpool University Press and it ‘continues its lyrical and exact…