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Lower VI Young Enterprise
The Little Lantern Company Every year the Lower VI students form a company to take part in the Young Enterprise programme. We have a report on this year’s company and great product: ‘This year a group of Lower VI students has taken on the challenge to unleash our personal and business skills through the Young…
Nursery Nativity
‘It’s a Baby!’ Yesterday, 2nd December, our Advent season really got under way with the Nursery’s performance of ‘It’s a Baby!’ their Nativity production, which was a wonderful afternoon’s entertainment. This took place in the Nursery itself which was packed, parents and other family members thronging the seats set out to watch the unfolding of…
Senior School Dance Showcase
Showstoppingly Great! Yesterday evening, 2nd December, seventy plus girls from Form III to Upper IV treated us to an amazing display of dancing. Comprising pieces from curricular lessons, co-curricular clubs and with girls even choreographing their own routines, the audience was entertained to a variety of dance styles in a marvellous evening of dance. The…
Christmas Lunch
Serenading our diners, crackers and delicious food! On Tuesday 1st December pupils at St Augustine’s Priory enjoyed their Christmas lunch. This may seem a little early, but from now on until the end of term, apart from lessons and the regular activities of a busy school, we will also be enjoying several Nativity plays, the…
Sixth Formers in Slapton!
Getting drenched in Devon From Friday 6th to Monday 9th November the Lower VI AS Geographers from St Augustine’s Priory attended a residential field trip at the Field Studies Centre at Slapton Ley on Start Bay in South Devon. They were accompanied by both members of the Geography teaching staff. The weather may not have…
Welcoming Advent
Sunday 29th November Sunday 29th November is the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of the four week season of the Church’s year when we get ready for the coming of Christ. This is a time of hope, joy and expectation and gives us the opportunity to prepare ourselves and focus on the approaching Nativity…
Upper V presents…
Stretch and Challenge On Wednesday 18th November Upper V students, Grace Lozinski, Franceska Barnard and Serena Gray presented to us the projects they had been working on in ‘Stretch and Challenge’. Stretch and Challenge is a new initiative – an opportunity for pupils to pursue areas of interest, to study and explore in depth a…
Juniors and Preps collect for…
Operation Christmas Child This year our collection by the Preps and Juniors of gift-filled shoeboxes for children in need around the world, organised by Operation Christmas Child, was a triumph with a total of 137 boxes being donated. One of our parents kindly took the boxes to the depot from where they will travel worldwide…
Lower II presents
The Blue Crystal You may think that you are in November 2015, but no. In reality… ‘In the year 4015 following the depletion of its natural resources, Earth’s life support systems and civilisation depend upon the Blue Crystal which powers a giant computer. When the crystal is stolen by the Zarcons, a warrior race from…
Lower I investigates
Stonehenge In their History lessons Lower I has been investigating Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument in Wiltshire, learning about it through taking part in a ‘Stonehenge Fact Hunt!’ The Stonehenge Fact Hunt involved the girls exploring their classroom and finding the many facts about Stonehenge which had been hidden by their Form Teacher, Mrs Van Der…