Category: Senior
City Kids Autumn 2020
New issue available now. The Autumn 2020 edition of City Kids, the magazine for London families, is now available. To read your copy please click on the following link: Read Autumn 2020 issue where you will find a host of information, including a calendar of events on in London and issues arising from lockdown and…
Upper IV and ‘The Way’
The importance of pilgrimage. Mrs McDermott reports that, as part of their unit on Pilgrimage, Upper IV have watched the film, ‘The Way’, made in 2010, about a man’s journey along The Camino de Santiago, the Way of St James, the network of pilgrimage routes that ends at the tomb of St James in the…
News from Zambia
Lubasi Home developments. We have received some news from Mrs Sarah Bramble (expedition coordinator), who is our link with Lubasi Home in Zambia, for which we raised the wonderful sum of £1,400 earlier in the year. This is what she has to tell us: ‘It was a very exciting meeting of St Augustine students, their…
Real change, enduring change
One step at a time. ‘Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time’. So said Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who died on 18th September 2020. The poem below, ‘In the steps of RBG’ by American poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer speaks about the change that…
Our new, ‘virtual’ Carlo House
Community and Remote Learning Online (CARLO). One of the greatest challenges of self-isolation is exactly that sense of isolation, which can make people of all ages feel cut off from their friends and relations. We are therefore delighted to announce the launch of ‘Carlo’, a new ‘virtual’ House for all students (and staff) who are…
Reaching across the U.K.
Blended Learning Initiative. One of the biggest challenges education is facing during the Covid-19 pandemic is how to simultaneously reach, stimulate and educate both those children who are in school and those who, owing to self-isolation or quarantine, are at home. At St Augustine’s Priory, we realised before lockdown began that an effective way of…
Winning Poems
Chiswick Book Festival Young People’s Poetry Competition. Seventeen schools took part in this year’s Chiswick Book Festival Young People’s Poetry Competition and, with so many poems about lockdown submitted, a special ‘Lockdown’ category was created. Tisha Maroo won the Year 7 section in this category with her eloquent and moving poem, ‘Locked In’ which encapsulates…
Ealing Foodbank
September donations needed. This is a time of great need for many people. The Ealing Foodbank has contacted us to ask if people are able to assist with their latest shopping list. Their stocks are dwindling and they say that there was a 4909 kg gap between donations received and food distributed in August. They…
Premiere at the BBC Proms 2020
Composer Hannah Kendall. The BBC Proms, the annual festival of classical music, is enjoyed every year by millions. In 2020, the festival ran from 17th July until the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 12th September. This year, owing to the pandemic, it was unfortunately not possible to hold live concerts from the beginning…
Geographers investigate
Fieldwork in the time of coronavirus. Mr Chappory, Head of Geography, reports on the field visits which took place at the end of last week when he and his band of intrepid Geographers ventured to the south coast. ‘Despite some changes to A Level requirements for our current Upper VI, changes to Geography fieldwork is…