Poetry for Lubasi

Posted: 6th March 2020

Ms Mona Arshi at Pitshanger Bookshop.

Wednesday 29th April sees award-winning poet Mona Arshi present an evening of poetry reading and discussion at the Pitshanger Bookshop in support of the Lubasi Children’s Home, Livingstone, Zambia.

Ms Arshi worked as a human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the prestigious Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. She has also been a prizewinner in the Troubadour, Magma and Manchester creative writing competitions, in 2017 Ms Arshi was one of the judges for the Forward Prize and is co-judging the National Poetry Competition this year.

Ms Mona Arshi

The Lubasi Home provides care for orphaned children and St Augustine’s Priory is proud to be supporting this organisation through raising funds for the restoration and painting of bathrooms and toilets, renovation of the roofs above the dormitories and new toilets and bathrooms when they cannot be repaired, the work to be undertaken by local builders.  A group of girls will also be visiting in July of this year to spend time at the Lubasi Home with the children.

Funds raised from the poetry reading will go towards the Lubasi Home.  Tickets for this evening with Ms Arshi are £5.98 – £11.37 and more information and tickets are available by going to the site: an audience with the poet Mona Arshi

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Strengthening Our Community: The Return of Boys to our Preps and Pre-Preps

We are excited to share that, from September 2026, boys will begin moving up from our Nursery into Reception, marking the gradual reintroduction of boys into our Prep and Pre-Prep School.

This step reflects growing interest from families who value our strong holistic ethos and unique grounds and setting and would like their sons and daughters to share their educational journey together.

At St Augustine’s, our strong sense of community, academic excellence, and deep care for each individual child remain at the heart of everything we do. This is a natural evolution of our school rather than a change to who we are, building on our strengths and allowing us to offer the same joyful, inspiring education to even more children.

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