The Edmund Rice Learning Centre arose out of the need to provide an alternate form of learning for many pupils who found it difficult to deal with the SSC syllabus which allowed for little choice of subjects. This led to a number of students dropping out of school. The NIOS Board was adopted for these... Continue Reading →
Nearly half of the planet’s animal species are now in decline, but unlike past mass extinctions, this one has been entirely caused by humans. More details here.. https://youtu.be/4Qy36zw1hnY
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 →
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 →
Ex student Melroy Assisi ( SSC 2014) who has been playing in the Indian Soccer League since 2021 made the news for scoring a superb equalising goal for Punjab FC against North East United. He was the hero of the Punjab defence for the game . Here's the goal https://videopress.com/v/17Nxf2c9?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true
Suresh Kurup (SSC 1997) and Ansh Kurup ( SSC 2031 - he's currently in class 3 ) make a seriously formidable Table Tennis team. They performed very well at the 5th Palghar District Table Tennis Ranking Tournament .It was organized by Ameya Classic Club in Virar, on September 30th and October 1st. Ansh played in... Continue Reading →
"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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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