Community service is an integral part of an Ascham education. This week all Year 6 Ascham girls were involved in community service at Our Big Kitchen (OBK) in Bondi. OBK is a community run, non-denominational, industrial kitchen where meals are prepared for distribution to people...
Responding to the theme 'Threatened Species in Woollahra', Ascham Junior School students worked with abundant enthusiasm and determination over the past two months to produce creative and ecologically sound works for the Woollahra Environmental Sculpture Prize for Schools. Our girls employed an inventive use of...
To celebrate Book Week, we were thrilled to host bestselling children's author Morris Gleitzman when he visited girls in Fiona. Morris' extensive list of titles includes Two Weeks With The Queen, Grace, Doubting Thomas, Give Peas A Chance, Extra Time, Loyal Creatures, and the series Once,...
As part of Science Week, the Kindergarten and Year 6 girls had the opportunity to work together on a special scientific inquiry - paper planes! Using three types of paper and testing a range of designs, the girls sought to create a plane that could fly...
In Science this term, Year 4 is investigating aspects of the living world and how food and fibre is produced from living things. To support their learning, Daniel and Justine Harris, farmers from north-west New South Wales, visited Ascham to speak about food and fibre...
What a fantastic week we had at the Sydney Regional Snowsports Championships, with some outstanding results. Ascham had a large contingent of girls from Kindergarten to Year 12 competing at Perisher in the Sydney Regional Snowsports Championships over the winter holiday break. It was a fantastic...
On 15 June, six Fiona students presented at the UNSW GERRIC Gifted STEAM Conference. Harper Marsden-Uren, Janine Southwell, Maya Murphy, Kaja Damodaran, Sofia Malik and Eva Jacobson were invited to share their experiences and ideas regarding their participation in STEAM activities at Ascham. Prior to their...
At Ascham, we love art. From the earliest years our girls are active in the visual arts and many go on to choose Art as an HSC subject. Our students often enter various art prizes, and the Waverley Youth Art Prize is one that encourages...
Year 2 Ascham students, Ines Sechos, Hope Nickson and Aliyah Vueti had Indigenous-inspired artwork selected to be entered into the 2018 Pauline McLeod Reconciliation Week Primary School Art Competition. And the results were wonderful! The competition awards night was held in Ashfield on Thursday 24 May. Ines...
On Thursday 24 May we had the great privilege of accompanying 16 enthusiastic students from Years 5 and 6 to Knox Grammar School for the 2018 da Vinci Decathlon. The theme of this year’s event was 'The Unexpected' and from the moment we stepped off...
