Tips on managing exams for parents. Our School Counsellor, Mrs R Good, has some timely advice for parents during this examinations season. ‘Whilst a certain amount of pressure and worry can motivate some students to revise and achieve in exams, the pressure of exams can feel intolerable for others, activating or intensifying existing feelings of…
St Gregory’s Nursery pupils meet our farm animals. The St Augustine’s Priory Farm is going from strength to strength, providing a wonderful learning environment for children of all ages, whether for science lessons, for those who plan to enter a career working with animals or simply for those who enjoy their company! Last Friday, 18th…
Lower IV and Upper IV embrace La France. Monday 14th May dawned bright and early for twenty-two Lower IV and Upper IV pupils and four members of staff. They had all managed to get themselves by 5.00a.m. to St Augustine’s Priory where a coach was waiting to whisk them off to St Pancras station to…
Women’s Wellness Week – What aren’t we talking about? It is spring. Yes, finally, green buds are appearing and whatever we have all made of this unusually bitter winter it appears to be ending. At this time of year some people’s thoughts turn to their gardens, or interior decorating – but for me it is…
Conversations for development. Wednesday 2nd May saw Lower VI engage in an initiative designed to help prepare Lower V pupils for life in Priory 6. At the beginning of the afternoon Lower VI pupils advised on A Level subjects to groups of Lower V pupils who rotated from subject station to subject station. This was…
Young Young Enterprise. Prep III explored their entrepreneurial abilities this week as they took part in a project designed to cultivate their business, creative and marketing skills! As part of the upcoming Association Day on Saturday 30th June this group of budding businesswomen will be designing and making their own products to sell on a…
Visit from Mr Alan Reed. As part of the History curriculum, a field visit is undertaken to the battlefields of World War I. This year we were privileged to host Mr Alan Reed, an expert on World War I, who came to St Augustine’s Priory on Friday 27th April to speak on the topic and…
A visit from the André Malraux Primary School. Miss Gandi, Modern Languages Department, writes, ‘It is now the second year of our partnership with the André Malraux Primary School. After they kindly invited us in January to share the French tradition of the galette, we exchanged book marks with our favourite book characters during Book…
Drama production extraordinaire. Wednesday evening saw Upper IV’s latest Drama production, ‘Game Changers’. Ms Brown, Head of Drama, comments, ‘It was wonderful to see Upper IV perform an eclectic selection of scenes and poems by game-changing playwrights on Wednesday evening. We saw a plethora of characters ranging from A.A. Milne’s Wind in the Willows to Steven Berkoff’s Metamorphosis…
Google Chromebooks. Mr Dellow, Head of ICT, has some exciting news to impart… ‘If you take a look around you will probably find you are no more than a metre away from some form of computing device, in fact, you are likely to be using one to read this post. As of this week our…
