The Journey to the historic basketball double

St Augustine's recently created a bit of basketball history by winning both the Under 14 and Under 17 DSO level tournaments on the 23rd of September 2024.The driving force behind this remarkable feat was undoubtedly the coaching provided by Br Ronnie. He was previously stationed in St Augustine's from 2006 to 2014 and did a... Continue Reading →

Walk down an old memory lane..

Lots of old photographs were collected from here and there by Mrs Joyce Dias and other teachers involved in the Golden Jubilee Year preparations. They are presented below in three videos. You can take a slow walk down the memory lanes one at a time.Pause for break in between each if you wish. The first... Continue Reading →

Schools that still have views

Sadly the beautiful views of the salt pans and the wide open spaces that lay next to our school are no longer visible.Now all we can see is the concrete jungle. Some of our other schools however still have the good fortune of lovely views from the school campus. Here are three such CB schools.... Continue Reading →

The teacher who composed our School Anthem

"Let's raise the banner of St Augustine's. Let it flutter there on high.." The iconic and very familiar lyrics to our beautiful school anthem were composed by Mrs Lourdes D'silva in the academic year 2007 -2008. The lyrics were written by her and the tune was first played on the guitar by Jeffrey D'silva ,a... Continue Reading →

A teacher shares her memories of School

Dr Agnes Dcosta,associate professor in Pushpanjali College of Education,taught in St Augustine's from 1987 to 1996. Ms Cynthia,as she was known in school,shares some memories from those years in school in a chat with Clive Ferreira -Vice Captain of Murphy House (SSC 2021). This video was supposed to have been released as part of the... Continue Reading →

The view that once was ours

Some time ago there was an article on the site about the birds that visit the campus.Those birds are lucky. Only they can see the now the glorious view that was once visible from our school. We could see all the way across to the salt pans and then to the distant hills on the... Continue Reading →

Drone Video of Sports Day 2018

Sports Day 2018 was special because it was the first time two things happened. The first was that Br Lurshai got the photographer to do drone video recording of the sports. Unfortunately no one ever got to see that drone footage for a long time as the recording subsequently got lost.Happily it has been found... Continue Reading →

The School Crest and Motto

The School Crest and Motto were created in the year 1978. The tale of how this came about is recounted to us by Br Adolph Pinto,who was stationed in St Augustine's School in that year. Br Christy Murphy took over as principal from Br Peter Gomes in 1978. As sports day approached it was realised... Continue Reading →

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