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St Augustine’s is a Catholic secondary school in Edinburgh with a strong sense of community, striving for high levels of achievement for every student.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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HUGE Well Done to Winse who is a Headstart winner thanks to
@CareerReadyUK
#stem
#uni
#taster
#course
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It is with deep sadness that we have learned that our school chaplain and friend, Fr Duffy, died this morning.
He was a huge presence in our school community and will be sorely missed. Please keep him in your prayers.
May he rest in peace.
We are saddened to announce the death of Mgr Tony Duffy.
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Our 96% Positive Destinations and our work to Close the Attainment Gap. Great to chat to the Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, today about our achievements here at St Augustine’s.
@scotgov
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Feeling proud! Of our pupils who left last year, 96% have moved to a positive destination which puts us in the top 3 schools in Edinburgh.
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Kori Fital wins GOLD!🥇🥇🥇🥇
She made history by becoming the 1st female to win Gold for the Scottish National team in over 40 years. Also it’s the 1st Gold medal won by a Scottish athlete in 17 years.
Well Done Kori!!!!
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We are very proud of our amazing S6 pupils who have gained the Caritas Award! Well deserved recognition for your loving service to your school and faith communities.
#Caritas2020
@leocushley
@archedinburgh
@SCESDirector
@JohnSwinney
@Edinburgh_CC
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Today we spent time in prayer, reflecting on the life of Fr Duffy and his impact on our school community.
Donations to the Fr Duffy Memorial Fund, which will support a sick person to travel to Lourdes on pilgrimage, can be made through ParentPay.
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So proud of our S6 on their last day at St. Augustine’s. A credit to their families and the school.
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Feeling proud! Of our pupils who left last year, 97% have moved to a positive destination which puts us in the top four schools in Edinburgh
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Today we delivered our food and money donations to The Edinburgh Food Project. As you can see this was an outstanding amount and we thank all students and parents who donated to help with our Advent appeal this year!
@EdinFoodProject
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Congratulations to Grace McGinley who won 1st prize in a citywide writing competition based on the work of Robert Burns & in conjunction with Dunedin, New Zealand. Grace has won for the school a free author visit from Scottish Book Trust, as well as a gift token for herself!
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St Augustine’s High School Class of 2019. A lovely time was had by all at the Prom last Friday. Thank you to the Edinburgh Grosvenor Hotel
@EdinburghGros
for a fantastic evening. Good luck to all of Class of 2019!
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Kori Fital attended the Edinburgh Evening News awards on Friday and WON Sportsperson of the year! Huge congratulations to Kori! 🥇🥇🥇🥇
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Well done to our S3 Drama pupils who performed at the Edinburgh Fringe today. You were all absolutely brilliant!
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Congratulations to our pupils receiving their exam results today and for those with results they are not happy with, remember these are only plot twists in your life’s story.
#SQAresults
out tomorrow..
Remember you don’t need to excel in exams to be successful in life..
These successful people either failed exams, dropped out school or were rejected many times over the years
Their stories coming up….
#myjobscotland
#MondayMotivation
#ResultsDay2018
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Today our S6 pupils were delighted to hand over donations to
@MarysMeals
from our school community. This is the last Backpack Appeal being run by the charity so we were pleased to be able to support it!
@archedinburgh
@SCESDirector
@StAndFoundatio1
@SoePastoral
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An amazing response for our call for donations. Thank you all so much for your generosity. St Augustine’s S6 CARITAS class have forwarded these on to Fresh Start.
#freshstart
#caritas
#fooddonations
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So proud of our S6-a mature & dignified last day, with no disruption to junior classes! Will miss you all & the contributions you have made.
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Our Kori does it again! We’re so proud of you.
#widerachievement
Huge congrats to
@stahsnews
S1 School of Football pupil Kori Fital who recently became U13 Scottish Karate Champion! Just the 13hrs of Football & Karate training a week for this young role model! Good luck at the upcoming World Championships in Bulgaria!
#tacklinginequalities
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A huge well done to our first 21 pupils to complete and achieve their Bronze expedition. A great amount of dedication and perseverance was shown over the two days! We are very proud of you all.
#IAmDofE
#widerachievement
#lifeskills
@DofEBarry
@DofEConnor
@PeteMoir
@DofEScotland
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Congratulations to Kori on winning GOLD in both Mexico and Budapest WKF championships.She is now sitting at no 8 in the world!!She also won Gold in the team event&2 Bronze in the kata category.Good Luck for Chile-she competes in the World Championships for National Scotland team!
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Congratulations once again go to Kori Fital (2D1) who is now the WADO World Champion Karate for her age group. A truly phenomenal effort and we are all very proud of her. Well done Kori from everyone at St Augustine’s!
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As the summer holidays begin, we look forward to welcoming our new S1 pupils in August! It was great to meet you all earlier this month for your transition visit. Have a great break, and we look forward to seeing you all after the holiday!
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Congratulations once again go to Kori Fital (2D1) who is now the WADO World Karate Champion for her age group. A truly phenomenal effort and we are all very proud of her. Well done Kori from everyone at St Augustine’s.
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Last night we celebrated our Class of 2022 and had a fantastic time at their prom! Well done to Sana and Adam for their brilliant speeches reflecting on the past 6 years. Good luck to you all!
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Well done Katie and TK!! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩
Two pupils from Auggies, TK & Kate were featured in a community magazine discussing their roles in an interview about representing young people as candidates of Scottish Youth Parliament Edinburgh. 🏴
This is an amazing achievement & we are super proud of our students! ✨
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On Friday we said goodbye to our wonderful pupils who are leaving
@stahsnews
- we wish you all the very best in your future!
#Goodluck
#stayintouch
#brightfutures
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Well Done to our S6 Caritas Award Winners!! Congratulations to everyone involved!
#CARITAS18
#CatholicSchoolsGoodForScotland
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Congratulations to our Mhairi McLaughlin S6 student on her recent success! We’re all very proud.
Big congratulations to Mhairi McLaughlin who is the U23 British Champion! Well done
@mhairimclaughln
great job! 🤺🥇
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Class of 2023!
We wish you every success for your exams and life as an Auggies Alumni 💙💙💙
#auggieauggieauggie
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Merry Christmas to all from St Augustine's RC High School.
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Congratulations to our Career Ready pupils who graduated last week and a special mention for our Liam Stritch who was awarded Career Ready Student of the Year for Edinburgh!
@DYWScot
@DYWEdinMidEast
@CareerReadyUK
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HUGE! Congratulations to Mr Moore's S4 Computing class who were the overall winners at the
#martyscodingparty18
! We are so proud! Well Done!!
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Congratulations to Owen in S3 who received a leadership award from
@HeriotWattUni
in recognition of the amazing work he is doing in school. As a founding member of our Charities Committee he has been key in projects to support both
@MarysMeals
and
@SCIAF
. We’re very proud of you!
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A beautiful feast day mass celebrated by Archbishop Leo Cushley here in the school. £6000 raised by school community and donated to SCIAF
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St. Augustine’ High School S3 pupils delighted to receive their ipads today to support Teaching and Learning.
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Kori Fital has been nominated for the Edinburgh Evening News local hero awards and has been told she is in the final 3 for her sporting achievements!! Well Done Kori!!
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Well done to our pupils who represented the school on Friday at the Edinburgh Dance competition doing so well! Massive thanks to Eve Yeaman and Clare Wooton as our Dance Ambassadors and Ashley our dance coach!
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Welcome back St Augustine’s pupils!
Tomorrow we start back on Week B Timetable.
Please log on to the TEAMs page of your period 1 class, if possible at 8.45am. Remember, your teachers are there if you don’t know what to do and Mrs Chrystal is on duty in school tomorrow.
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Today we remember Mgr Tony Duffy on the first anniversary of his passing. Our memorial fund has successfully raised enough funds to enable a sick person to travel to Lourdes. Thank you to the St Augustine’s and St Cuthbert’s school communities for your generosity!
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S5 girls attended the
@futureAs5set
conference. Fantastic speakers & very encouraging day. Also met Nicola Sturgeon.
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On behalf of the RE department, thank you to all our community for supporting our Advent charity collection for
@EdinFoodProject
. We are overwhelmed with the generosity of pupils and staff!
#reverseadventappeal
Also, well done to our S5&6 team who helped move it all to the van!
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Well Done Kori Fital!🥋Februarys achievement on winning the European Cadet -54kg Title with the Scottish National squad in Budapest earned Kori more World ranking points and the new rankings were released last week!
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Mrs McKillop & Mr Banks at the P7 camp (soon to be Auggies S1s). Great meeting you all!
@stjosephsedin
@saintdavidsrcps
@FoxCovertRCPS
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Congratulations to our recent former pupil Arran Hastings (also from St Andrew’s Foxcovert) who has secured a golf scholarship to play and study in Waco, Texas. Exciting futures!
@FoxCovertRCPS
#positivedestinations
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Our deepest sympathies to everyone in the
@forresterhs
community.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Today we remembered Andrew, 1 year on. We had a lovely memorial in school towards the end of the day, before gathering outside at the newly installed bench, in his memory. RIP Andrew.
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We are very happy to welcome
@Projekt42EDI
to our school. The young people are developing their well-being through a Yoga and Meditation block.
#mindfulness
#wellbeing
#yoga
#meditation
#MentalHealthMatters
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Thank you to Terry
@thecockburn
for taking talking to pupils on Edinburgh history as part of our Edinburgh 2050 project. Thanks also to
@NicolaSturgeon
for the selfies - the pupils (and teachers!) were delighted!
#300daysofhappy
#HWB
#edinburgh2050
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We are delighted that Kacper, Lauren, Zuzanna and Claire's
#YourCommunityFund
submission for
@ypi_scotland
has been successful! They have secured a £4,000 grant for the work of
@SAMHtweets
in Edinburgh! Fantastic work, and well done to everyone in the group!
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A huge well done to our first Bronze Duke of Edinburgh group. They developed their navigation, tent pitching and team work skills in very difficult conditions.
#perseverence
#IAmDofE
#practicewalk
@DofEScotland
@DofEBarry
@PeteMoir
@EdOutdoorLearn
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Space Kitchen, Broomhouse Hub say:
"We know the supermarket shelves are empty so, during this crisis, Space Kitchen Cafe will be offering THE £1 MENU EVERY DAY (takeaway only). The usual faves - homemade soup, mac 'n' cheese, sausage or nuggets and chips, chips and curry sauce."
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Very proud of our S6 pupil Sophie Callaghan who is standing for the Scottish Youth Parliament. The SYP is the democratically elected voice of Scotland’s young people. Elections take place between the 8th and 21st of November. Please support her.
@ElizabethSCsyp
#SYP
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Congratulations to St Margaret House on winning the House Cup this year and for the first time ever!! 👏👏👏 Mrs McKillop is over the moon! Resilient performance this week going from 4th place to 1st by winning the Question of Sport Quiz!!
Happy holidays everyone!
#summer2023
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We've spotted 15 impressive Auggies pupils and one impressive ex pupil in this picture! Can you spot anymore?
Meet the impressive young Scots pilgrims who give up holidays to care for the sick/disabled in Lourdes...and pay for the privilege too!
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This Sunday, Mr Timms will be presenting as part of BBC One Scotland’s Easter programming. He’ll be on a special episode of Reflections at the Quay for Easter Sunday.
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Our School Link Officer, PC Millar, competed with Team Scotland in the recent Police Sport UK event. He is pictured after the team were declared the Home International Series and Individual Team champions! Well done PC Millar!
@EdinburghPolice
@PoliceScotland
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Today would have been Mgr Duffy’s 75th birthday - a fitting day to reflect on the role he played in our school community. His portrait, painted by a senior pupil, has been installed at the heart of our school and is surrounded by words reflecting on the impact he had on us all.
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Congratulations to our incredible Equalities Committee who did a fantastic job presenting assemblies to every year group about the protected characteristics! They are the drivers of change within our community to ensure there is equality for all. 👏👏👏👏👏
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It's a busy night at the Careers Event at St Augustine's!
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Huge thank you to
#RalphFiennes
and
#IndiraVarma
of
@Macbeth_theshow
for giving our Drama students such an incredible opportunity to learn from two titans of the stage and screen! 🤩🎭🎬🎭🎬🤩
It's not every day Hollywood actors turn up at your school! 🤩
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How wonderful! Our ex pupil, Holly, is doing so well! Lovely to see how our pupils are getting on
@MissCanning1
and we spy you using the great webpage that is
@mywowscotland
!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
👏Yesterday was Miss Canning's last day in the
@Leithpe
department👏
😊Adored by pupils😊
🙌Innovative and meaningful lessons🙌
🏐The REAL Netball coach🏐
🏸Brilliant, engaging, thoughtful N4/5 teacher🏸
🏓Terrible TT player🏓
Good luck
@MissCanning1
🥇🥇🥇
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St. Augustine’s High School celebrating the visit of the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux
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Hello everyone - we are looking forward to seeing you all next week. S1 all day Monday, S2 all day Tuesday, S3 all day Wednesday. S5/6 every morning 9-12. and S4 Mon-Wed 1.30-3.30, all day Thursday and Friday 9-12.
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Wonderful to see all our
@CareerReadyUK
interns doing so well in their first week! Good luck to all our
@CareerReadyUK
interns during their 4 week placement, we can't wait to hear all about your experience in August!
#scotintern18
#YOYP2018
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Finding it hard this Xmas? Big Hearts can help individuals/families who may find things difficult or lonely on Christmas Day. They are inviting you to
Xmas dinner @ Tynecastle Stadium 11am-2pm. Transport to & take back home can be provided. Contact: christmas
@bighearts
.org.uk
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Yesterday’s
#CulturalDay
at St Augustine’s saw a vibrant celebration of our school’s diversity.
A massive well done and thank you to our S5 pupils who led the way in organising and preparing yesterday’s events!
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Good morning all!
Your teachers who do not having caring responsibilities and who are well, will be online from 8.40am.
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Last week we had a wonderful opportunity to celebrate success in S1, S2 and S3. Our Junior Awards Ceremony recognised the achievements of lots of our young people! A special well done to our 3 overall attainment winners, and thanks to the music department for the entertainment!
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The Breakfast Club that is starting next Monday 1st October. It is free for all pupils to attend and will take place from 8am-8.30 at the top of the dining hall. See Miss Cox for more information.
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Thanks to
@agcolehamilton
and
@magic_breakfast
for helping with our breakfast club today! Big thanks to our wonderful S6 pupils who run a very efficient service every morning: Oliwia, Marta, Grace, Tegan, Craig, and Mary 🥯🥯🥯🥯🥯🥯
Great morning helping out with
@magic_breakfast
at
@staugustineshs
who aim to close the attainment gap by ensuring no student starts school hungry!
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Earlier this week we celebrated our
#ClassOf2022
at St Augustine’s.
Mr O’Doherty praised their resilience and our leavers’ ceremony gave an opportunity to reflect on the past 6 years. We wish you all every success for the future!
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Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Pope Benedict XVI Caritas Award! We are incredibly proud of your commitment to loving service in our school and in your parishes and faith communities.
Please collect your medals and certificates from the RE department.
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Huge congratulations to our S2s & Mrs Croome for winning the Artivism category at the Edinburgh Schools Saroj Lal Awards!!
Also, congrats to
@misshkaur1
of
@portobelloHigh
for winning the GTCS award for A Pioneering Spirit.
@vineet_uk
@nikhatyusuf
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The St Augustine’s Team wish you and your family the very Best Wishes for the New Year.
Further information is due out to pupils and parents over the next few days.
Please keep an eye out – Twitter, Website and TEAMS.
A plea to parents, please keep you email up to date.
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Thank you to Jakub and Bronagh for sharing their skills and future career aspirations with us!
#ajobforeverybody
#Myskillsmakeme
#dyw
#ypguarantee
@DYWScot
@DYWEdinMidEast
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Our school’s Charities Committee were selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts today. Thank you to everyone who supported this sale, in aid of our school’s chosen charities. Even PC Millar couldn’t resist...
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Goodbye to our school leavers - a credit to the school. We know that you will continue to be successful! STAHS 97% positive destinations.
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Working on those skills for learning, life and work! 🤩👍🏽
We continued the theme of team work and communication this morning. Our players playing connect 5 and Hungry hippo.
#skillsforlife
#teamwork
#communication
@stahssport
@stahsnews
@rugbypeoplenet
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St Augustine’s Parents' Open Evening tomorrow 4.30 - 6.30pm. Tour & presentation from Mr McGee, Head Teacher & Snr pupils. All welcome.
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Who doesn’t want to miss the opportunity of “wet-sponging” the Head Teacher? Don’t miss the St Augustine’s Christmas Fair today a from 12-2pm in the school dining room. All friends and family welcome.
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We are really excited to welcome our P7s into the building at 08.40 tomorrow morning!
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Many thanks to Lisa Williamson of Edinburgh Caribbean Association for her enlightening talk for staff today on working in a culturally diverse environment and proactive anti-racism
@edincarib
#gettingitrightforeverychild
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Wishing you all a great October 🎃 break!
Pupils resume: Wednesday 23 October 🍂🍁🍂
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Our young people were privileged to meet HRH the Earl of Forfar during their summer holidays. It was great listening to how DofE has impacted and inspired them positively in their education.
#widerachievement
#IamDofE
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A huge well done to Brandon, Kyle and Marcus on completing 85 hours of rugby volunteering
@saintdavidsrcps
& stjosephsedin this year. A great achievement!
#leadership
#rugby
#drivingthegame
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Date for the diary - come along and support us at our Christmas Fayre Sat 25 Nov 12-2pm in the school! Gifts, home baking &hot snacks.
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Congratulations to our pupils Kori Fital & Brandan Kay for their outstanding success in the recent Ishoj Cup (Karate) in Denmark. Brandan achieved a bronze medal and Kori managed to win the gold! Well done from everyone at St Augustine’s.
@stjosephsedin
@StCuthbertsRCP
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Well done Tendai!
Great news from Manchester
@BritishMilers
Grand Prix as Tendai runs 3:47:86 1500m for a superb race win and European u18 qualifying standard.
@BritAthletics
@scotathletics
Well done!
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Please see the letter below sent to all schools from Police Scotland and Lothian buses regarding behaviour on the buses.
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Thank you
@magic_breakfast
for a lovely evening yesterday. We are very proud of our pupils being used as an example of good practice! Congratulations to our S6 prefects who have run our Breakfast Club so successfully this year (L-R): Fortune, Craig, Oliwia, Marta, Mary and Freya.
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7 Cities Hydrogen Challenge - congratulations to our team who came in 3rd. Congratulations to Jakub Parylak, Jakub Bielnik and Christopher Barclay. As prize winners, they have won a very expensive Lego Technik RC set and will go on to compete in the Scottish Finals in Glasgow
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Well done Natsai!!! 👏👏👏👏💙💙💙💙
U17W podium at
#LindsaysXC
Short Course:
1. Millie McClelland-Brooks - 10:39 -
@InverclydeAC
2. Natsai Nyabadza - 10:54 -
@HarmenyAC
3. Zara Redmond - 10:57 -
@kilbarchanaac
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Last term we were lucky enough to have Gareth Williams, the co-founder of
@Skyscanner
, speak to a group of our pupils about the creation of his business and the trials and successes he encountered along the way! Very inspirational, our pupils loved it!
#dyw
#NeverGiveUp
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Congratulations to Quincy Okolo whose animated film "The Run" won Best Animation last night at the
#ScottishYouthFilmFestival
amongst some very serious competition! Quincy, former pupil of St Joseph's, studied Higher Media last year - we're very proud.
@stjosephsedin
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The wonderful Debora Kayembe virtually visited our school this week. Debora is Rector of Edinburgh University, a human rights lawyer and activist, refugee, and survivor of racism. She shared her inspirational story with our students and took questions from them.
@dkayembe
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This Lent help is urgently needed in Ukraine.
@SCIAF
and partners are providing emergency support. Our charities committee are fundraising, donations are being collected in all classes and other fundraising events are organised. Every donation, however small, is much appreciated.
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Everyone in Auggies will miss Mr Fletcher’s enthusiasm, kindness and energy. We wish him all the best in his new job!
Today we say farewell to
@MrFletcherMaths
Thank you for your service to teaching, and for the inspiration and wisdom you have imparted to us all. You will always be remembered as a true champion of education, and we wish you nothing but the best as you embark on your new journey
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