Category: Whole School

8th June 2018

Are you helping your child to enjoy the snakes and ladders of outrageous fortune? We all have the potential to be gamechangers.  In this article by Headteacher, Mrs Raffray, first featured recently in ‘Primary Times’, a way in which all parents can be gamechangers in the lives and education of their children is examined.  And…

7th June 2018

A date for your diary… We are all looking forward to the visit later in June of the world-renowned Miraculum Children’s Choir from the Kodály Music School in Hungary, directed by Laszlo Durányik.  The choir will be visiting us from the evening of Wednesday 20th until the morning of Friday 22nd June. We are privileged…

7th June 2018

A whole school runs. On Sunday 3rd June, a day of glorious sunshine, a strong contingent of girls, parents and staff from the St Augustine’s Priory community running in the Race for Life for Cancer Research UK.  Mrs Gosling, Director of Sport, reports:   ‘The St Augustine’s Priory pink army assembled for the Race for…

7th June 2018

Lower I commemorate a special occasion. Every year at St Augustine’s Priory we celebrate our First Holy Communicants.  Over the previous weeks girls in Lower I have received their First Holy Communion in their parishes and we mark this important event in the girls’ lives with a special Mass.  Prep III to Upper II, families,…

25th May 2018

Plans for the week of 11th – 15th June. In school assemblies on Friday, 25th May, Priory 6 introduced us to the plans for Women’s Wellness Week, running from 11th – 15th June. This will be a packed week of events and talks at St Augustine’s Priory, encompassing many issues which impact on women’s lives. …

24th May 2018

Junior Maths Week. Earlier in May Nursery to Upper II embarked on an enhanced exploration of Mathematics.  Ms Gambrill, Mathematics Coordinator for the Juniors, relates the work that went on throughout the Junior School: ‘During the first half of May the Junior, Prep and Nursery pupils celebrated Maths Week. The main aims of the week…

22nd May 2018

St Gregory’s Nursery pupils meet our farm animals.  The St Augustine’s Priory Farm is going from strength to strength, providing a wonderful learning environment for children of all ages, whether for science lessons, for those who plan to enter a career working with animals or simply for those who enjoy their company! Last Friday, 18th…

17th May 2018

 Lower IV and Upper IV embrace La France.  Monday 14th May dawned bright and early for twenty-two Lower IV and Upper IV pupils and four members of staff.  They had all managed to get themselves by 5.00a.m. to St Augustine’s Priory where a coach was waiting to whisk them off to St Pancras station to…

10th May 2018

Women’s Wellness Week – What aren’t we talking about? It is spring.  Yes, finally, green buds are appearing and whatever we have all made of this unusually bitter winter it appears to be ending.  At this time of year some people’s thoughts turn to their gardens, or interior decorating – but for me it is…

4th May 2018

Conversations for development.  Wednesday 2nd May saw Lower VI engage in an initiative designed to help prepare Lower V pupils for life in Priory 6.  At the beginning of the afternoon Lower VI pupils advised on A Level subjects to groups of Lower V pupils who rotated from subject station to subject station.  This was…