A day of sunlight and celebration. On a bright and shining Saturday in late June, the inaugural St Augustine’s Priory Association Day took place in our wonderful grounds. Pupils and their families, past pupils, staff, both present and past and neighbours all came together to join in the festivities. The Parents’ Committee worked tirelessly both…
An evening to treasure. On Tuesday 26th June, our Sports Awards Evening was held to celebrate our achievements in the sporting arena over the past academic year. Mrs Gosling, Director of Sport, takes up the story: ‘On the evening of Tuesday 26th June we welcomed over 200 people from the St Augustine’s Priory community to…
Sunday 8th July started out hot and ended up hot – for most of us anyway! For some inhabitants of St Augustine’s Priory it ended on a much cooler note as Sunday was the day that the sheep shearers came calling! Below are some pictures of the event, but if you would like to see…
A day of insights. As a follow-up to Women’s Wellness Week, on Thursday 21st June, Lower V and Lower VI visited Imperial College to the Hammersmith Medical Research Centre. This experience enabled girls to seriously consider STEM careers, but also emphasised the importance of being aware of our bodies and wellbeing. Aditi Jadhav, Lower VI,…
An international opportunity. The St Augustine’s Priory travel scholarships contribute towards enabling our girls to gain valuable experience overseas. Our travel scholars this year are Priory 6 pupils Portia Laryea-Adu and Ljiljana Krneta. Their travels will be taking them far and wide and they will be undertaking work in very different countries. Here they tell…
A puzzling challenge. Mr Dellow, Head of e-Learning and ICT, and his team embarked on another challenge this year. He takes up the story, ‘After the success of last year’s Escape Room, it was decided that a follow-up was required. This year saw a change of the format as, instead of being locked in a…
Studying ‘The Duchess of Malfi’. Studying Webster’s ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ for A Level, Banu Ali, Priory 6, reports on the recent visit of English Literature students to see a production by the RSC in Stratford. ‘On Friday 15th June, the Lower VI English Literature students went to Stratford-upon-Avon to see an absolutely breath-taking production…
CAFOD campaign. ‘Share the Journey’, CAFOD’s campaign of awareness raising of the plight of refugees saw Augustinians of all ages – from Nursery to Priory 6 to staff and parents walking around the school grounds last week. Throughout the week, from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd June each class gathered in our Chapel and then…
Inspirational visitors. This week has seen some extraordinary visitors come to St Augustine’s Priory. We welcomed the Miraculum Children’s Choir from the Kodály School in Kecskemét, Hungary. Led by László Durányik, this world-famous choir has won accolades and awards for over twenty years and we were delighted to welcome them to Ealing as first stop…
An inaugural event. Women’s Wellness Week, held last week at St Augustine’s Priory, was an incredible initiative, drawing together our community in awareness raising, discovery and education about how to make choices for a healthy and fulfilling life. To that end we started the week with a powerful talk by Mrs Ransome (see article in…
