The Year of the Word. From a rock that David threw at Goliath to Queen Esther to an entire Nativity scene the pupils and staff at St Augustine’s Priory threw themselves into World Book Day on Thursday and its theme of characters from the Bible. Pupils dressed as characters from the Old and New Testaments…
Poetry and Prose at St Augustine’s Priory. Book Week is an excellent time to launch our latest publication, SCRIBE. SCRIBE is a selection of poetry and prose produced by girls from Upper II to Upper VI and written during the Summer and Michaelmas Terms 2019. Arising out of the Creative Writing Club and English curriculum…
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…
Stretch your brain! The St Augustine’s Priory Parents’ Committee quiz nights are always an excellent time to jumble up the brain cells for an evening of food and fair play. Taking place this year on Friday 13th March, doors are open at 7.00pm and the quiz starts at 7.30pm. There will be a break during…
A concert of four schools joining together. The evening of Monday 23rd March sees a not-to-be missed concert of the Emmaus Catholic Schools’ Partnership. Taking place at 7.30pm in Ealing Abbey, with guest vocalists VOCES8, this will be an evening when the four schools in the partnership join together for an evening of wonderful music-making….
Our prayerful beginning to Lent. Following the excitement of the pancakes on Shrove Tuesday the next day we marked Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Lent is the period of forty days leading up to Easter, a time when we prepare through fasting, penitence and prayer for Easter. Two Masses were held on Wednesday, celebrated…
The Catholic Children’s Society. At Senior Assembly on Monday this week we were visited by Ms K Waring from the Catholic Children’s Society, the organisation we will be supporting throughout Lent via the collection boxes which have been distributed one to each class. The CCS supports disadvantaged children and families across London, Hertfordshire and the…
A useful guide. Ms Burrell and Mrs Pugh, Science Department, have provided a handy guide to a very current issue, the coronavirus, aka COVID-19. As they say, ‘we have produced this so that girls are able to interpret the headlines on the virus correctly and properly look after themselves’. We hope that you find it…
The Wonder of Words. St Augustine’s Priory has a long link with authors starting with George Sand (real name Aurore Dupin), the nineteenth century French novelist who attended the school when it was in Paris. Fast forward to the twenty-first century and award-winning poet Mona Arshi is an Augustinian parent and award-winning poet Neil Elder…
Whole School Involvement From the Nursery right through to Upper VI, all at St Augustine’s Priory were involved in Wellness Week 2020. A host of activities took place, starting on Monday 10th February when Priory 6 students visited the Nursery to talk about how to look after ourselves and each other. Ms Hagerty led a…
