Category: Whole School

21st March 2022

Leadership Hustings. Upper II to Upper VI and staff gathered in the Badano Hall on Tuesday 15th March for the annual excitement of the leadership hustings.  Every year candidates for next year’s school officials set forth their manifestos.  Our great current school officials were present to hear what their prospective successors had to say; pupils…

21st March 2022

Preparing for lambing. The Priory Farm is a wonderful part of life at St Augustine’s Priory, providing learning opportunities for all ages and we often host other schools who visit and enjoy meeting our animals.  A core of farm life is the training of the Priory Farm Managers where pupils from Form III upwards undertake…

18th March 2022

The Year of St Joseph. Today, Friday 18th March, Miss Keane and our Upper II Liturgy Monitors took part in a special event.  Miss Keane reports: ‘Our Upper II Liturgy Monitors, Sophia, Angela, Maia and Bernadette attended a special Mass at Our Lady of St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Hanwell today to celebrate the end…

18th March 2022

The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings come to St Augustine’s Priory. From the fifth century these islands of Britain played host to the Saxon warriors followed by the Jute and Angle settlers.  All three groups settled and fought over the next hundred years or so and then in the eighth century new visitors arrived – the Northmen,…

17th March 2022

A performance for the Society of Heads. We were delighted that our Baroque Group were invited to play at the Society of Heads Conference last week in Cheshire.  Mrs Raffray is the Chair of The Society of Heads this year, which is an organisation representing independent schools in the UK and overseas.  The three musicians,…

14th March 2022

Daffodils and ducks. It is a sure sign that Spring is taking root when the daffodils arrive at St Augustine’s Priory to trumpet Spring’s arrival.  The grounds are ablaze with daffodils as they adorn the farm, the Prep Meadow and the Prayer Garden. The ducks are always keen to explore and enjoy the warmer weather…

14th March 2022

The naming of our temporary Hall. Our new temporary Hall now has a name.  Building work is soon to commence at St Augustine’s Priory, adding new spaces to educate and enthuse all who are here.  Therefore, we have taken possession of a temporary Hall, which has been put up on the grounds to house clubs,…

14th March 2022

Visit to Hampton Court Palace. Lower II historians recently visited one of the UK’s most magnificent historic buildings, Hampton Court Palace.  Originally owned by Cardinal Wolsey, chief minister to Henry VIII, it passed to the king when Cardinal Wolsey fell from favour.  In the seventeenth century, King William III undertook to rebuild and extend the…

11th March 2022

Stop Everything – Read. Last week we celebrated Book Week with a feast of literary lusciousness.  We welcomed authors Sylvia Bishop and Sita Brahmachari who ran workshops for our very receptive students and Book Character Day was a triumph of staff and pupils dressing up as their favourite literary characters.  From the works of Beatrix…

9th March 2022

‘Girls can do anything’. Mrs Nikolova reports that the Nursery had a wonderful time celebrating International Women’s Day on 8th March. She says, ‘Nursery had a fabulous International Women’s day. We listened to the story ‘Girls can do anything’.  In addition, we also had a scrumptious afternoon tea with the girls.’   The Juniors and…