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,...
On Thursday 25 May, two teams of Year 5 and 6 students represented Ascham in the da Vinci Decathlon at Knox Grammar School, with wonderful results. This decathlon is an academic competition designed to challenge and stimulate the minds of school students. Students competed in teams...
Ascham may be an inner-city school but we are blessed with a campus replete with visiting wildlife! Great excitement filled our Junior School, Fiona, on Tuesday morning when reports of a sleepy possum taking refuge in a bag of clothes, intended for recycling, began to circulate....
Class 2-7 held a Charity Day for sick Fijian children in hospital. Each Hillingdon student very kindly donated two pre-loved paperback books that will be taken to Fiji by one of our Year 2 students and her family in the Term 1 holidays. This family takes part...
Year 4 students enjoyed a very special life-drawing class in Visual Arts recently. Thanks to one Ascham family and their pet, Nuggets the chicken, students were provided with the opportunity to draw a bird from life, as part of the drawing unit, Birds of a Feather. You...
In March, Year 2 was fortunate to have one of Australia’s leading performers, Matthew Doyle, present a varied cultural program spanning traditional Aboriginal culture and contemporary dance. Matthew Doyle is a descendent of the Muruwari people from the Lightning Ridge area of New South Wales and...
From the Junior years, STEAM—Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics—is front and centre of every girl’s education at Ascham. In early February, Year 5 students worked on their first STEAM Challenge for 2017. The girls were placed into STEAM groups of two to three students from all...
Hillingdon is Ascham's infants' school, encompassing Prep to Year 2. Hillingdon Open Day is always a delightful event on the Ascham calendar. Once a year, every girl from Prep to Year 2 is on the stage of the Packer Theatre performing for family and friends in...
