Category: Prep

7th March 2022

‘A very warm welcome to the Society of Heads Conference 2022. What a pleasure it is to welcome so many people in person. We also welcome people joining us online. We last met for conference shortly before the first lockdown in March 2020.  Since then we have climbed the mountain of moving schools online, responding…

4th March 2022

Time to draw breath. After a busy first half of the Lent Term, the week just before Half Term was a welcome respite to create space for mind, body and soul – the theme for St Augustine’s Priory this year and the theme for our Wellness Week. Fittingly, the week began with a time of…

25th February 2022

A day to celebrate. Our Feast Day took place just before Half Term on Wednesday 9th February.  The school gathered for The Wishing at the beginning of the day when speeches from our Head Girl and the House Captains were well received.  During The Wishing, the Catherine Aylward Award winners were announced.  This award commemorates…

21st February 2022

Successful Bookbuzz and Book Week! Thursday 3rd March is the 25th anniversary of World Book Day and has, as its theme, ‘You Are a Reader’.  We are looking forward to celebrating all things literary in that week in our Book Week.  We have already begun our celebrations as  Form lll and Lower lV received their…

4th February 2022

We are Creating Space for Truthful Conversations. RADIO We have been involved in the Faith and Belief Forum’s school linking programme since November 2010. We are currently linked with the Jewish Community Secondary School in Chipping Barnet. Previously, we were also linked with Unity Girls School, a Muslim school in Hendon, before they relocated. As…

4th February 2022

Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week. As we look forward to celebrating Wellness Week next week, looking at all aspects of wellness, Mrs R Good, our Counsellor and Play Therapist writes about Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week. ‘Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week is taking place this year from 7th – 13th February, the eighth annual event…

1st February 2022

Getting ready for Spring. Although it is only January, Prep III were thinking ahead last week when they visited the Priory Farm.  Miss Algar, Form Teacher Prep III, takes up the story: ‘Prep III had a lovely afternoon in the farmyard on Thursday last week, collecting some soil for our seeds. We planted our seeds…

28th January 2022

A wonderful ‘thank you’. Hestia was one of the charities for which we raised funds at the 2021 Carol Service and, thanks to the generosity of our parents, we were able to send them £494.17. We were thrilled to receive a video from Hestia thanking us for our contribution which was played at the Senior…

28th January 2022

Ealing at War. Following the extraordinary event of this week, when an unexploded World War II bomb was found on a building site just beyond our school grounds, we thought it might be interesting to say something about Ealing at war, a time when people tried to go about their daily lives while living with…

27th January 2022

Remembering. Thursday 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day, remembering those millions of people who were persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust.  To mark this at St Augustine’s Priory Ms Brown reports that in Monday’s Senior Assembly, ‘Ava and Mary in Upper IV Aleph interviewed Clare Lawlor from the Imperial War Museum Holocaust Galleries about the…