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Careers Talks in the Lent Term 2020
Learning about Life. Mr Ferguson, History teacher and PSHEE Co-ordinator, has once again organised a term of excellent careers speakers. Beginning on 30th January with Ms Catherine Lewis La Torre, CEO British Business Investments, CEO British Patient Capital, Ms Lewis La Torre took us through her career in finance after graduating with a degree in…
The Benefits of Sport.
Swimming for Success. Mr Harnett is known as a significant member of the Mathematics Department, but less well known is his involvement with the swimming team. A national swimmer in his teens, specialising in the Butterfly Stroke, Mr Harnett qualified as a coach when he was sixteen and coached from then and all through his…
Seniors and Ealing Teen Read 2020
An invigorating discussion. Last week we were visited by Ms K Franklin who works as the Schools’ and Children’s Service Manager in Ealing Secondary Schools. Ms Franklin is part of the ‘School Library Services’ team, which organizes the ‘Ealing Teen Read,’ whose aim is to promote reading for pleasure. Mrs Bhatti, School Librarian, reports that ‘Ms Franklin…
Meeting Members of Staff
Ms N Chandler. This term we have been delighted to welcome Ms N Chandler, who joined us as PA to the Bursar plus having responsibility for HR compliance. Ms Chandler is a past pupil of St Augustine’s Priory and has fond memories of her time here. After working in retail for eleven years and several…
The UK Space Design Competition
Through to the next stage. The UK Space Design Competition is an annual science and engineering competition designed as a simulation of life in industry. Open to students in Years 10 to 13, the UKSDC aims to enable students to experience the vast potential and valuable opportunities available through future study, or even a career,…
God loves teachers
Additional events. We thought you would be fascinated by this piece which was quoted in the St Ignatius School, Toowong, Newsletter in October 2005 and which we would like to share with you: ‘God loves Teachers On the sixth day God created men and women. On the seventh day, God rested – not so much…
Upper V on Retreat
A day at SPEC Josephine Heffernan and Dilichi Dieobi, Upper VA, were two of the participants in the Upper V Retreat Day at the SPEC Retreat Centre to mark the end of their mock GCSEs. Here they give their account of the day: ‘On Monday 20th January, after our mock examinations, the whole of Upper…
Celebrating Chinese New Year
The Nursery and the Year of the Rat Tomorrow sees the beginning of the Year of the Rat, the Chinese New Year. The Nursery enjoyed their celebrations by making a dragon and participated in a dragon dance with cymbals in the Playground. A Chinese restaurant had pride of place in their home corner and they…
Meeting Members of Staff
Ms C Matheson We are delighted to welcome Ms Matheson to St Augustine’s Priory who joins the English Department to teach English this term to Form III – Upper IV. After achieving a BaCl in Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology Ms Matheson took a graduate degree in Secondary Education and a graduate…
The Sacred and the Ordinary
Although we can mark the Christmas season until the Feast of the Presentation, or Candlemas, on 2nd February, we have now entered the Ordinary Time of the liturgical year. There in one sentence is the finely strung balance between the sacred and the ordinary which Christmastide celebrates. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales…