Category: Nursery
The Echo
The impact of the pandemic. The Senior Eco Committee has prepared the latest edition of ‘The Echo’, the bulletin from the Junior and Senior Eco Committees which aims to engage our wider community in issues surrounding sustainability and reducing our carbon footprints. This edition discusses the impact of the Covid pandemic: ‘Owing to the pandemic,…
Musical Endeavours
A virtual achievement. Learning a musical instrument is a thoroughly rewarding endeavour, but is it something that can be pursued in the current climate, where learning online may sound a challenge too far? Let Naomi, one of our Upper VI students, dispel any doubts you may have! Her achievement this year is a testament to…
Partnership in action
Walking and working together. During the first lockdown last year, Priory Purpose, the Sixth Form student-led initiative that seeks to serve the community through fundraising via projects such as their annual Fright Night, created a website called Creativity Counts. Moved by how so many children had no access to creative learning our Sixth Form sought to help…
Fratelli Tutti
Accompanying with an open heart. On 4th October last year, the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, the Vatican released the latest encyclical by Pope Francis, ‘Fratelli Tutti’. Mrs McDermott, Head of Religious Studies, here tells us about a recent online training session led by Fr Eamonn Mulcahy on ‘Fratelli Tutti’. ‘Fr Eamonn is a…
From the Counsellor’s Chair
Children’s Mental Health Week. Mrs R Good, our School Counsellor, here writes about an issue which is of concern to us all, and focusses on Children’s Mental Health Week, which is from 1st – 7th February 2021. ‘The concept of Children’s Mental Health Week was initially launched in 2015 by children’s charity Place2Be. This year’s…
2020 in Ten Poems
Poem of the Week. No-one who viewed the inauguration of President Biden this week could have been failed to be moved by the power of poet Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Day 2021 poem, ‘The Hill We Climb’. Although written especially for the day and speaking about the United States, there were lines that resonated with everyone…
Testing, testing, testing
St Augustine’s Priory Test Site. In her video this week, we are led by Headteacher Mrs Raffray on a tour of the test site at St Augustine’s Priory. Here, staff who are coming into the school and the children of critical workers are able to access lateral flow tests for Covid-19 on a weekly…
Selection Day 2021
An innovative start to the New Year. Mrs Savic, the St Augustine’s Priory Registrar, reports on this year’s unusual Selection Day: ‘This year’s 11+ Selection Day was like no other in that we did not have any written tests but instead an extended interview via Zoom. The current national lockdown has meant that we could…
Meeting Members of Staff
Ms N Weir. Another new member of staff we welcome to St Augustine’s Priory this term is Ms N Weir, who joins us as a Teaching Assistant in Prep I as cover for Ms Corr. Ms Weir says, ‘I’m very excited to begin this new journey at St Augustine’s Priory. This will be my first…
The Chapel in Advent
Looking to Christmas. Our journey through Advent centres around the anticipation of Christmas, the coming of the Christ child into our lives. Our Chapel has remained open throughout this time, welcoming all those who wish to spend quiet time in peace and contemplation safe in the knowledge that throughout all our lives, it is this…