News
A welcome guest…
A welcome guest… Groucho the rabbit makes an appearance A special visitor arrived at St Augustine’s Priory on Tuesday 13th September. Groucho the rabbit, who has been to St Augustine’s Priory over several years is owned by Lucy Bennet, past pupil and daughter of Mrs Bennet, Head of Maths. This year Groucho, accompanied by Lucy,…
Aladdin
Aladdin Form III makes a dramatic start to the term Ms Brown, Head of Drama, relates how Form III started the year with a visit to the theatre, a wonderful way for them to add to the enjoyment of a new school year and for new and old pupils to form friendships! ‘On Wednesday 7th…
Meeting Members of Staff…
An addition to the Nursery As we welcome so many children into the Nursery and Prep I this September, we welcome Ms Hristina Nikolova, who has also joined St Augustine’s Priory’s Nursery for this new term! Here she introduces herself: ‘I am Hristina Nikolova and I have just joined the Nursery at St Augustine’s Priory…
A Dahlicious Day
Roald Dahl’s Centenary Celebrations ‘There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t even started wondering about yet.’ Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach The Junior School was alive with fictional characters on 13th September 2016 as Prep II through to Upper II helped us celebrate a most creative…
Silver Award, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
Victorious Qualifying Expedition Participants At St Augustine’s Priory we are pleased to offer all three levels of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Bronze, Silver and Gold. During the summer the Silver Award candidates travelled to Wales. Ms Hayden takes up the story… ‘On 1st August the Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award participants from St Augustine’s…
Memory in Action
A Stitch in Time ‘Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.’ (Elie Wiesel) At St Augustine’s Priory the theme for this year is Memory and, as the Headteacher, Mrs Raffray, wrote in her last letter, ‘We will be planning rich cross-curricular links, competitions as well…
Priory 6
Priory 6, the new Sixth Form of St Augustine’s Priory, was a hive of excitement on the morning of Friday 2nd September, when Lower VI students heard presentations from Ms Hagerty, Director of Sixth Form and Head Girl, Erin Costello. In rather comfortable chairs in their newly refurbished Common Room, students listened to details of…
Write on Kew
A Festival of Literature It is again time for that wonderful literary festival ‘Write on Kew’, returning to Kew Gardens again this year from Thursday 22nd – Sunday 25th September 2016 in Kew Gardens. This is a festival for all ages, from one to 101 with four days of talks and events with a stellar…
What Will This Year Bring?
A Prayer for the New School Year A new academic school year is always exciting. Perhaps starting a new school, moving up a year, reuniting with old friends and making new ones, it all adds to the experience of new beginnings, of a fresh start, a blank page on which to write. The following prayer…
‘Artkitecture’
A Summer of Art and Architecture As we look forward to next week when elements of the ‘Artkitecture’ summer course’s sculptural building will be exhibited in the Rose Garden we look back at the adventure of this week long workshop which took place earlier in the summer. In what seemed to be the hottest week…