We extend a warm invitation to all OAs and friends to attend our London lunch at Sartori's Italian Restaurant, 15, Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JE (just off Leicester Square) on Saturday 13th April 2024 at 12:30pm for 1:00pm.

How to get there: Please see the Google Location Map on our Events Page.

The easiest and quickest way to make a Booking, access the Menu Choices and make a payment is to use the Online Booking Form on the website Home Page.

We hope you can attend and look forward to welcoming you at Sartori.

We are delighted to announce the following Forthcoming Events diary dates for this year:

London Lunch - Saturday 13th April 1:00pm at Sartori Restaurant near Leicester Square, London.

Feast of St. Benedict - Thursday 11th July Mass with refreshments afterwards, London.

Westgate Ursuline Alumni - Saturday 13th July 12 noon 120th Anniversary Garden Party, Westgate.

OA Reunion Lunch Westgate - Saturday 28th September 12 noon at St. Augustine's, Westgate .

Mass of Remembrance - Saturday 9th November 12 noon at St. Augustine's Church, Ramsgate.

More details for each event will appear on the website in advance of each event including Booking Form, Menu choices and Payment / Donations online.

Many thanks to Old Augustinians, Westgate Ursuline Alumni and the Ursuline College for supporting our Remembrance Requiem Mass on Armistice Day. Students in Catholic Education in Thanet remembered students of the past who gave their lives in Wars.

As mentioned, The Ursuline College Students were an absolute credit to their school. During the OA Remembrance Requiem Mass they read with respect and reverence, the OA Roll of Honour; eloquently read the psalm and Prayer for Peace; and with grace, laid their own wreath at our OA War Memorial.

As remarked upon, they delivered a beautiful story of the life of OA Charles Oscar Wilson (1910) who died in the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917 aged just 23. He is buried in the British Commonwealth Cemetery located just outside Gaza City. Today it is a War zone and sadly no Remembrance Service has taken place there. The students made sure Charles Oscar Wilson - and all the other Old Augustinians who gave their lives were not forgotten " We will Remember them"

Andrew Sharp OA Chairman

Pictures from the day will soon appear in our Galleries - Recent OA Events

Robin Edwards

It is with great sadness and regret to have to announce Robin Edwards died peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of Tuesday morning, 2nd November. Robin or "Mr Edwards" as we always called him gave 32 years of outstanding service to our school from 1963 to when the College closed in 1995.

He was an exceptional History Teacher and served in the 1960's as Headmaster of Assumption House and then from 1971, Assistant Headmaster of St. Augustine's College until it closed.

Robin was a man of tremendous intelligence and wit, with great integrity, high standards and above all, modest. A deeply religious person, with a love of cricket too.

We send our deepest sympathy and condolences to his widow Doreen and his daughter, Eleanor. Please keep Robin and his family in your prayers at this time.

For those wishing to send his widow, Doreen, and daughter, Eleanor a card, please get in touch with either Richard Caraccio or myself for the address. (email address below)

We will take the opportunity of remembering Mr Edwards at our Remembrance Mass at St. Augustine's Church, Ramsgate on Saturday 11th November, to which you are all welcome to attend.

May he Rest in Peace.

Andrew

Andrew Sharp

Chairman

The Society of Old Augustinians

email: oldaugustiniansevents@gmail.com

The annual Old Augustinians Mass of Remembrance takes place on Saturday 11th November 2023 at 12 noon at St. Augustine's Church, Ramsgate to which you are invited and most welcome to attend.

For more details and Google directions - please see the EVENTS page on this website.

If you have not already booked, there is still time to make a booking for our Annual Reunion Lunch taking place this year on Sunday 1st October 12:30pm for 1:00pm at St. Augustine's 125, Canterbury Road, Westgate on Sea, Kent. CT8 8NL.

To make a booking, it is easy to book on our website. Please go to our EVENTS page, scroll down to find the Booking and Menu Choices Form and details how to make an Online Payment.

There is plenty of parking at the venue and a map of the location is located on our Events Page.

LAST DATE FOR BOOKING - Saturday 23rd September 2023

We look forward to seeing you...

URSULINE ALUMNI REUNION AND NEW ALUMNI GROUP INAUGURATED IN THE 120TH YEAR OF THE SCHOOL MOVING TO WESTGATE ON SEA – SATURDAY 13TH JULY 2023

Old Augustinians joined Ursuline Alumni at the Ursuline College in Westgate for a reunion to mark the beginning of the Ursuline’s 120th year in Westgate and to formally set up the Westgate Ursuline Alumni Association (Saturday 15th July 2023)

70 attended, mostly Ursuline Alumni, came together to enjoy lunch and an afternoon together as many reunited with their old school friends for the first time in some years. The event started with an uplifting Mass in the beautiful Ursuline Chapel led by our Chaplain, Canon Brian Coyle and assisted by Ursuline College Chaplain, J’anna Byrne, followed by a reception on the Chapel lawn and lunch in the School Assembly Hall.

All guests were welcomed by former Headteacher, Sister Alice Montgomery. Speeches were given by Dannii Lancefield, Academy Principal together with her two assistant Principals, Paula Gaffney who leads on Mathematics and Chris Gregory, who leads on History. They gave talks on the work going on to support students and how the Ursuline and Augustinian Alumni could help. OA Chairman, Andrew Sharp, thanked the school and the Ursuline Alumni for hosting and facilitating the event and said that the OAs looked forward to working together with the Ursulines in ways which will help Ursuline College students.

Sr Alice Montgomery formally asked members to adopt a resolution to set up the Westgate Ursuline Alumni Association (WUAA), which was agreed without dissent. Officers elected were President; Sr Alice Montgomery: Chair; Keryn Poulter: Vice Chair and Treasurer; Sue Hennessey: Secretary; Alice Odeke and Committee members; Marcella Pitt and Sarah Thomas. Paula Gaffney from the Ursuline College and Andrew Sharp from the Old Augustinians would serve at Liaison members of the Committee.

Ursuline College students volunteered to give up their Saturday afternoon to given tours of the school to Alumni Members.

The meeting agreed that the 120th Anniversary reunion would take place at the Ursuline College on Saturday 13th July 2024.

Old Augustinians were delighted to attend the Ursuline College Prizegiving evening held at the school in Westgate at the end of the Summer Term. Prizes, sponsored by Old Augustinians and individual OA members were presented to students worthy of recognition for the contribution to the school and/or academic achievement.

OA Committee Members presenting prize were David Fugurally and Andrew Sharp, and they were joined by Ade Owusu-Ansah, widow of the late Stephen Owusu-Ansah and Obi Chiejina, the sister for the late Vincent Chiejina, who tragically died in the Grenfell Tower Fire.

Prizes were given to the following students:

The Stephen Owusu-Ansah Cup for Kindness was awarded by Ade Owusu-Ansah to Jordan Parkes

The Old Augustinians prizes for Service (Serviam) were awarded by Andrew Sharp to Ruby Carson, Jessica Stephens and Lauren Fagg.

The Vincent Chiejina prize for Mathematics was awarded by Obi Chiejina to Head of Maths, Paula Gaffney who accepted it on behalf of the award winner and Head Boy, James Cole, who was unable to be present.

The Simone Marella prize for Selflessness donated by OA members was awarded by David Fugurally to Esther Moses-Adeyinka

The Academy Principal’s prize, sponsored by the Old Augustinians, was given by Andrew Sharp to Academy Principal, Dannii Lancefield who presented it to Kalli Laming.

Around 300 students, parents and staff attended the event, which was followed by a reception afterwards. Andrew Sharp and David Fugurally, on behalf of the Old Augustinians, congratulated the students on their achievements and the teachers for their support for the students.

We are pleased to invite you to our Annual Old Augustinians lunch which this year will take place on Sunday, 1st October 2023 at the former St. Augustine's College and Abbey School (and former Les Oiseaux Convent School), 125 Canterbury Road, Westgate on Sea, Kent. CT8 8NL the home of our school from September 1971 to July 1995.

This year we will be joined by members of the Westgate Ursuline Alumni Association which represents all those former Ursuline students and staff as this year sees the beginning of their 120th year since the school was set up in Westgate. We shall also be joined by Sister Alice Montgomery, who became the first Headmistress of the Ursuline College as it became known in 1995 when the Ursuline Sisters kindly opened their school to take boys from St. Augustine's College and Abbey School, when the school closed. Sister Alice will be our Main Speaker.

We will again be joined by the Alumnae of Les Oiseaux Convent School, who occupied our school buildings pre-1971. The lunch is of course open to all Old Augustinians, Staff, friends and family.

This lunch event is normally held on a Saturday and should have taken place on Saturday, 30th September but due to an administrative error by the venue, there had been a double booking, we have had to settle for a Sunday this year. Consequently Mass will not take place prior to lunch, as priests, quite understandably, will be busy in their parishes.

The itinerary for this Celebration is as follows:

  • 12 noon onwards The bar will be open for those wanting to buy pre-lunch drink or tea/coffee.
  • 1:00pm Three course Sunday lunch (with vegetarian options) with wine or soft drinks, coffee & mints.
  • 2:45pm Speeches including Guest Speaker, Sister Alice Montgomery, former Ursuline College Headteacher.

I do hope you will be able to attend this year and please encourage others who were in your class, friends and family to come to this event.

We have reduced the ticket price this year to £40 per person and an online Booking form and Menu choices form is available on our website link:

We must confirm and order the lunches in advance, I would be grateful if you could complete your booking form with menu choices and payment by Saturday 23rd September at the very latest.

There is plenty of parking at the venue and for those travelling by Rail, there are currently no planned engineering works from London or in the area that day. A map of the location is on our website link: below:

http://www.staugustineskent.com/contact-us

We look forward to seeing you - hope you will be able to attend.

Busy and successful month for the OAs which saw the Martin Morton Memorial Mass in London, Ursuline College PrizeGiving and the launch of the Westgate Ursuline Alumni Association where OAs can join.

Other news... Due to an administrative error by the venue, we have had to move the Westgate lunch to Sunday 1st October 2023. More news on this will follow shortly...

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