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Lent Term 2023: Highlights 1
The first half of the Lent Term 2023 has seen community life at St Augustine’s Priory at its best. From retreats to visits to Paris and our Feast Day, we have joined together to celebrate and commemorate. Community and Faith Life: Feast Day. The annual St Augustine’s Priory Feast Day was celebrated on Wednesday 8th…
Michaelmas Term 2022: Highlights 2
From time travel, to Paris, to New York, the St Augustine’s Priory community went far and wide during the second half of the Michaelmas Term 2022. It’s a wonderful town: New York, New York. Mr Chappory, Head of Geography, reports on the visit, at the end of the Michaelmas term and the beginning of the…
Michaelmas Term 2022: Highlights 1
The first half of the Michaelmas Term 2022 at St Augustine’s Priory was filled with a variety of events. The following highlights give just a taste of all that happened. 1. Year 7’s Adventure at High Ashurst: Flying High! Tara in Year 7 reports on the high excitement visit of Year 7 in September to…
Prep I visit the National Gallery
A day enjoying art. Mrs Van Der Merwe reports on the artistic researches of Prep I, who recently visited one of London’s major galleries: ‘Not only are Prep I delightful artists in their own right, they are also very appreciative of the art of others. On Friday 19th November they set out for the National…
Headteacher’s Blog: Creating Space for Headteachers surviving a pandemic
The pandemic blurred all boundaries. Some of this was good. To start with we thought it was a great equaliser – anyone could catch COVID. But it wasn’t democratic – some people had a party, will speak freely of enjoying it – without a commute, children at home, salaries coming in. Others were cooped up…
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Headteacher’s Blog: Wilderness
“You’re going to have to go on a journey and you mustn’t be afraid. You were always braver than you knew.” This last year we have been on a journey none of us saw coming. A year ago we were watching from afar as numbers of COVID cases were tracked. From a conference of Headteachers…
Women and the Word
“Would you empty the dishwasher?” “You couldn’t set the table could you?” As you read those mitigated directives are you hearing a woman or man’s voice in your head? That they are all questions situated in the kitchen we might disregard but did you know that there is a body of research evidence exploring what…
The Sacred and the Ordinary
Although we can mark the Christmas season until the Feast of the Presentation, or Candlemas, on 2nd February, we have now entered the Ordinary Time of the liturgical year. There in one sentence is the finely strung balance between the sacred and the ordinary which Christmastide celebrates. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales…
Primary Mathematics Challenge 2019
Girls across Upper II and Lower II took part in the Primary Mathematics Challenge 2019. The girls did brilliantly with 6 of the girls, 4 of them from Lower II, gaining scores of 19 and above, out of 25; a significant achievement. Rin, from Lower IIA, had the highest score overall, with a magnificent 22…