Category: Senior
World Alzheimer’s Month
The Thread of Life at St Augustine’s Priory. September 2019 marks the eighth World Alzheimer’s Month, raising awareness of dementia, the condition which affects so many people worldwide and carries with it so much stigma. At St Augustine’s Priory we believe in lifelong learning, utilising academic subjects and the opportunities they provide to open doors to…
Lower V: an exchange visit to remember
Enjoying France. The website of the European Day of Languages, celebrated on 26th September each year, has some fascinating facts on offer. Among them: There are about 225 indigenous languages in Europe – roughly 3% of the world’s total. Bilingualism brings with it many benefits: it makes the learning of additional languages easier, enhances the…
The Traveller’s Prayer
A shared experience. Priory 6 members, Aoife Pedreschi and Jasmine Dawuda were two of this year’s recipients of the St Augustine’s Priory Travel Scholarship and took the opportunity to travel to Vietnam where they taught English to adults (an article on this will follow). At Senior Assembly on Monday Aoife and Jasmine relayed their experiences…
Priory 6 and an adventurous weekend
Stubbers Adventure Centre. Naomi Jeffries and Ljilja Vincic (Lower VI) were part of the Priory 6 group who visited the Stubbers Adventure Centre for a weekend of activities recently. They report on the weekend: ‘At 2.00pm on Friday 6th September, Priory 6 left St Augustine’s Priory to go on our residential visit to the Stubbers…
Yourstage
A dramatic opportunity! Ms Hagerty, Director of Priory 6, teaches GCSE and A Level Drama at St Augustine’s Priory, and has just stepped into a new role as Deputy Head (Co-curriculum, Community and Development). Ms Hagerty started running her company Yourstage Drama (then Yourspace) in 2008. The company has gone from strength to strength, and…
Meeting Members of Staff…
Mr S Matheson. This term we welcome Mr Matheson, who joins our Science Department as Head of Chemistry and will be teaching this subject in the Seniors up to and including A Level. Originally from Australia, Mr Matheson obtained his B.Sc. with Honours from the University of Queensland and also achieved a B.Ed. Before teaching,…
Careers Speakers
The Michaelmas Term programme. This term sees a varied selection of Careers Speakers covering a wide selection of careers visiting St Augustine’s Priory. On 19th September the programme begins with the visit of Sobia Rahman, Senior Vice President of Western Union. This is followed by former pupil, Grace Lozinski, who will be speaking on taking…
‘Dear Big Gods’
Poet Mona Arshi’s latest collection. Award-winning poet and Augustinian parent, Mona Arshi, has recently published her latest, wonderful, collection of poetry, ‘Dear Big Gods’. Published in April 2019, ‘Dear Big Gods’ follows Ms Arshi’s Forward Prize-winning collection, ‘Small Hands’. ‘Dear Big Gods’ is published by Liverpool University Press and it ‘continues its lyrical and exact…
A Summer of Activity
Report from the Bursar. Our Bursar, Mr Powell, reported back to parents recently about the work that took place over the summer at St Augustine’s Priory. Along with the continuous cycle of internal redecoration, including in the Chapel, classrooms and refectories, the Academy has been substantially refurbished with the replacement of radiators and lighting and…
The start of the Michaelmas Term
With St Augustine of Hippo. ‘Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of…