Category: Whole School
Visit by Ealing MP
“You can do it” This was the way in which Dr Rupa Huq MP, Ealing Central and Acton, left an attentive audience of St Augustine’s Priory pupils on Friday 29th April, following an encouraging speech about modern democracy and life as a Member of Parliament. Dr Huq encouraged our girls not only to ensure they…
Space Seeds
STEM: a voyage of discovery The Science department of St Augustine’s Priory has been successful in their application to take part in a collaborative project between the Royal Horticultural Society and the UK Space Agency: ‘Rocket Science’, a national initiative to turn curious school pupils into space biologists! The rocket seeds, which this time last…
Upper II production of Annie Junior
“It’s a hard enough life for us”… But not for the audience! A crowded room of proud parents and teachers were itching to join in with the singing that filled the hall of St Augustine’s Priory on Wednesday evening, during Upper II’s production of Annie Junior. In the words of Director of Music, Mr Martin,…
Running Wild
Augustinians cast in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production “A story of love, loss, loyalty and of living for the moment.” That sounds like a tall order. Love, an emotion one would expect to be encouraged in a Catholic school; Loss, an inevitable experience that requires a balance of anguish and optimism impossible at any…
Sixth Form student takes centre stage
Aoife-Jane Moss joins the National Youth Theatre Fifty or so years ago the now Dame Helen Mirren is likely to have experienced that which we all have at one time or another (usually the first day at a new school) – butterflies in her tummy. Why? Well alongside the probable nerves of new academic challenges…
The Benefits of Reading (Part Two)
From the Counsellor’s Chair Mrs Good, our School Counsellor, here contributes the second in her articles on the benefits of reading: ‘In my previous article I explored the benefits of reading to children. But what if encouraging your child to read is a challenge? After a day of lessons that includes reading, some children may…
Music News
From the Director of Music Four weeks into term and it is wonderful to hear the sound of rehearsals underway at lunchtimes, before and after school. A number of ensembles have chosen to mark this year’s Shakespeare anniversary in creative ways. The Senior Orchestra has started rehearsing the Dance of the Clowns from Mendelssohn’s music…
Youth Mayor of Ealing raises funds for charity
The Little Princess Trust During her year in office, Pervin Kaur, Upper VI student at St Augustine’s Priory and Youth Mayor of Ealing, is working hard on several issues including fundraising for The Little Princess Trust, a charity which provides real hair wigs to children across the UK and Ireland who have lost their own…
Schools Science Prize 2016
Corpus Christi College Oxford Science Competition Corpus Christi College, Oxford, has announced the categories for their annual Schools Science Competition. There are two categories this year, firstly Biomedical Sciences in which they require an essay outlining one experiment or test on a sample of organic matter from Mars. The other category is Chemistry: write an…
Lower IV Alpha and Trees for Earth
Online petition Last Friday, Lower IV Alpha presented their assembly on the topic of Earth Day 2016. The theme of Earth Day this year is ‘Trees for Earth.’ The Earth Day Network has pledged to aim to plant 7.8 billion trees by 2020 – a tree for every person on Earth. The class were so…