News Archives - Ascham School

26 Oct AHIGS Festival of Speech success!

Posted at 11:30h in Awards, Co-Curricular, Community, General, Leadership, News, Senior School, Speech and Drama

On Saturday 24 October, Ascham girls met their Speech and Drama teachers at school to participate in the virtual AHIGS Festival of Speech. AHIGS is the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools. Prior to this online festival, the girls had to submit a video of...

16 Oct HSC noms for visual and performing arts

Posted at 16:59h in Awards, Boarding, Drama, General, HSC, Leadership, Music, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School, Visual Arts

It has been a hugely successful week for our 2020 HSC cohort in the visual and performing arts arena. Many nominations have been received across Music, Drama, Dance and Visual Arts for the respective showcases and exhibitions. Nominees for Encore, a concert showcasing outstanding performances and...

16 Sep Tournament of Minds

Posted at 12:03h in Awards, Co-Curricular, Fiona, General, Junior School, Leadership, News

Tournament of Minds (TOM) is an excellent opportunity for students with a drive to engage in creative thinking and team work. Ascham Junior School girls participate in TOM every year. A problem-solving competition for teams of seven students, TOM requires students to work collaboratively and creatively...

11 Sep When camps come to campus

Posted at 11:19h in Co-Curricular, Fiona, General, Junior School, News, Senior School

What do you do when you have to cancel school excursions and camps? Bring the excursions and camps to school of course! The creativity and ingenuity of our Ascham staff has been in overdrive this week. In normal years, Year 5 would have been on their...

04 Sep A riot of colour for Book Week

Posted at 10:29h in Co-Curricular, Community, General, News, Performances & Productions, Senior School

Although Book Week has been officially moved to October this year, our Senior School kept it in August as usual, so it didn't clash with exams next term. And what a fun Book Week we had! It began with The Body in the Library – a...

28 Aug Toxic perfectionism

Posted at 10:13h in Ascham Parents’, Boarding, Co-Curricular, Community, Fiona, General, Junior School, News, Senior School

How do you feel about making mistakes? Are you a perfectionist? Do perfectionists give up earlier than others? This term we have been fortunate to have parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson CSP provide engaging and thought-provoking online presentations to staff and parents of Ascham girls. Dr...

21 Aug Why science?

Posted at 16:27h in Fiona, General, Hillingdon, HSC, Junior School, News, Senior School, STEAM

We have celebrated National Science Week right across Ascham this week. So it is timely that our Head of Science, Ms Ann Brownlee, answers the million-atom question...

20 Aug Prep magic!

Posted at 09:14h in Community, General, Hillingdon, Junior School, News

We always knew that our Prep School was a magical place in which to learn and thrive but one day recently the evidence was clear! The girls and staff came dressed and bedazzled in a range of exciting fantasy costumes, with smiles that would light up...

10 Aug Simone awarded Gold Duke of Ed

Posted at 16:46h in Awards, Co-Curricular, Community, General, Leadership, News, Senior School

Warm congratulations to our Year 12 student Simone Fan on being presented her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award by the Governor of NSW. Simone's hard work and dedication over the past year in completing her Gold Award paid off when she was presented with the honour...

24 Jul SchoolAid National Accreditation for Ascham

Posted at 15:30h in Awards, Community, Fiona, General, Junior School, Leadership, News, Senior School

This week, Ascham had the honour of being presented with SchoolAid National Accreditation by the Patron of SchoolAid, His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, and Her Excellency Mrs Hurley. Alongside seven other schools from NSW and...