Category: Priory Post
Governor in The Guardian
An inspiring career. Governor of St Augustine’s Priory, Mr Floyd Steadman, who so generously gives of his time to staff and girls, most recently in his training workshops on Unconscious Bias, has recently featured in an article in The Guardian. The article, by Jeremy Inson from 4th June, focuses on Maro Itoje, Saracens and England…
Lower IV examine Conscience
Our still, small voice. ‘A clear conscience’, ‘examine your conscience’, ‘a guilty conscience’, ‘prisoner of conscience’, ‘what does your conscience tell you to do?’ We are all familiar with these phrases, our language is full of them. Lower IV have been examining the issue and here are two articles which reflect their work. Ms Corkery…
Learning Modern Languages
Seniors and Poetry by Heart. The Seniors have been enjoying a linguistic and literary Spring as they have discovered the richness of poetry. Ms de Lahitte describes the competition that took place: ‘We had thirty-three entries to the ‘Modern Languages Poetry by Heart Senior Competition’ this year, a competition where students had to memorise a…
Confirmation Mass 2021
Upper IV and Lower V celebrate. Mass was live streamed to the families of girls in Upper IV and Lower V this week who are celebrating making their Confirmation this year or who had received the sacrament last year. Other participants in this week’s Mass were the Liturgy Prefects from Form III to Lower V,…
The Unicorn School come to visit
Enthusiastic visitors to Priory Farm. We were all delighted to welcome the Reception class from the Unicorn School, Kew, on 26th May who came to visit the Priory Farm. Mr Raffray was on hand to lead the children around the school, starting with our sheep. The sheep were as enthusiastic as our visitors as they…
Priory 6 finalists
The ICAEW BASE Challenge. We reported back in March how pupils in Lower VI took part in the BASE challenge organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). They worked in groups of three to four to solve online problems put together presentations in response to case studies they researched. We…
Upper IV Historians
Researching the marginalised. Mrs Lunn, History Department, here describes the recent work of Upper IV Aleph: ‘Before embarking on their GCSE courses after half-term, Upper IV Aleph have spent their last History lessons focusing on personal histories of colonial troops who fought for Britain during The First World War. Students were inspired by the Imperial…
An exciting Half Term activity for Preps
‘Don’t Tell Grandma’ Exciting news from Amy Perry, our Ballet and Musical Theatre teacher, on a Half Term activity that we know everyone will enjoy. Ms Perry is in rehearsals for a show which is on next week at the Chiswick Playhouse and many of her pupils are fans of the theatre and we know…
Form III Mathematicians
Hyperbolic crochet. Mrs Bennet, Head of Mathematics, has been enthusiastically introducing Form III to hyperbolic crochet, resulting in some very beautiful work. She explains: ‘What is hyperbolic space? We are used to the idea that two parallel lines will never converge and will always be the same distance apart. In hyperbolic geometry, parallel lines converge…
Taking delivery
Our new residents. This week the Priory Farm took delivery of two new residents: two beautiful Oxford Sandy and Black piglets. The Oxford Sandy and Black is a rare, traditional breed of pig and nearly became extinct twenty years ago. The eight week old piglets became instant favourites with girls and staff and soon settled…