Priory 6 and Trusted Friends. Ljilja Vincic is one of three Priory pupils participating in the Ethical Leadership programme. They are involved in designing projects which will recognise and develop their leadership qualities and skills for life. The Ethical Leadership Programme is a student-focused qualification designed to recognise character skills and leadership qualities, while enabling…
UK Space Design Competition 2020 finals. Marie Corsini, past pupil, engineer, and an enormous guide and mentor to our Priory 6 scientists, reports on the UK Space Design Competition finals, held at Imperial College London on the weekend of 14th and 15th March 2020, which came at the end of our own STEAM week. ‘On…
Learning On Screen Awards. With the amazing news that the film directed by Priory 6 pupil, Taline Manuelian, for Fright Night 2019 has been shortlisted for the Learning On Screen Awards 2020 in the Promotional Film Award category, we thought that you would like to see the shortlisted film! The results will be announced at…
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….
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…
