Twelfth Night...or 'What You Will'
We all love a voyage of discovery… especially when, after wild seas, wrecks and restorations, loves and losses, it is ourselves that we discover. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night asks us, ‘What country friends is this? Where...
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20th May, 2022. Category: Drama
SAGE Keeping the Consent Conversation Alive
On 12 May at Ascham The Student Alliance for Gender Equality (SAGE) held its first conference with a student led panel discussion around gender equality. Here Year 11 Student, Olivia Cook describes her involvement in...
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12th May, 2022. Category: Community
A Reflection on Repatriation
In Year 11, Ascham Ancient History students complete a Historical Investigation on a topic of their choice. Student Georgia Shelley tackled the following question, and wrote an engaging and thoroughly researched essay on the repatriation...
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11th May, 2022. Category: General
Scientists in the Making
We have Scientists in the making! Our Prep teachers Ms Alex Keller and Mrs Julie Ward share the delightful array of experiences and experiments our students have been participating in the wonderful world that is...
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05th May, 2022. Category: News
Thriving With Dalton
What does it mean to thrive academically? For one student, it might be to simply pass a test. For another, it might be to achieve a near-perfect mark. For the teacher, the common goal is...
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26th April, 2022. Category: Co-Curricular
Distance Prompts Reflection: Memories of the Dalton Plan
The year 2010 saw me leave Ascham’s English Department, the place setting of my working life. My first Ascham teachers were Rowena Danziger, who gave me my job, and Beverley McGaw, who taught me the...
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12th April, 2022. Category: Ascham Archives
Junior Head of the River
On 20 March our Senior School rowers shone at the Junior section (Years 8-9) of the annual Head of the River rowing regatta. Here, Head Coach Thomas Parker provides a colourful reflection of what was...
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04th April, 2022. Category: Awards
Delving into the Dalton Difference in Fiona
Independence, Responsibility, Collaboration and Reflection, the four main pillars of the Dalton Plan, are cleverly, almost subliminally, woven into everything that happens in the Junior School. From lessons, to co-curricular activities, to the playground, the...
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02nd April, 2022. Category: Dalton
Reading, Creating, Dreaming
It has been a great first term in the Hillingdon Library (Prep to Year 2). Librarian Ms Penny Szentkuti provides a rundown on what our youngest students have been up to in her library. 'Fortunately,...
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01st April, 2022. Category: Community
Eco Warriors Plant Seed for the Future
Our Junior School Students from Years 3 to 6 have embraced their new vegetable garden with boundless enthusiasm. Carrot, lettuce and swiss chard seeds have been planted by the Year 4 Eco Warriors. Here, Year...
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31st March, 2022. Category: Fiona
Dalton in the Final Year – Planning, Balance, Reflection and Connection
Allegra Carlton and Mimi Perkin are keenly aware of how important it is to manage their wellbeing, just as much as their HSC workload, during their final year at School. Fortunately for these two students,...
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30th March, 2022. Category: Dalton
Sophie's Dalton Path to Medicine
There has been a lot to celebrate lately at Ascham—this year marks 100 years since the unique educational framework, the Dalton Plan, was introduced to our School. Since 1922, thousands of Ascham students have graduated...
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29th March, 2022. Category: Boarding
