Intermediate Maths Challenge results. Mrs Bennet, Head of Maths, delights in the Maths Challenges organised by the UK Mathematics Trust. We have recently received the results from the Intermediate Maths Challenge where our girls once more achieved excellent results. This year our pupils garnered 14 Bronze, 9 Silver and 2 Gold awards, which is a…
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….
Poetry Competition. Ms Corkery, Religious Education Department, reports on the competition which combined R.E. with creative writing! ‘As part of ‘The God who Speaks’ theme for this school year, the Religious Education Department recently ran a poetry competition at Key Stage 3. The task was to create a poem inspired in some way by the…
Visitors from Oswestry School. Winter is still with us even though the daffodils are blossoming in the Prep Meadow! But the Priory Farm never sleeps. The allotment needs tending, the chickens, micro-pigs and sheep all need looking after and our Farm Managers are no slouches when it comes to all the work involved – however…
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…