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 true happiness can be found in freedom, or ‘what you...
When our e-Learning Facilitator and Music Teacher Mr Nicholas Schneider sent an invitation to Senior School students about the Triple J Unearthed High Competition we didn't know that three would end up on the Triple J website! Mr Schneider asked our students who were interested in...
As the sun shone in the early morning of Thursday 27 May, all students and staff of Ascham gathered together around the magnolia tree to launch our celebrations for National Reconciliation Week. This is a time of year when we mark out a whole week...
Last night's opening night of our Ascham School musical was nothing short of...
Warmest congratulations to a member of our Class of 2020 Natalie Leroy, whose wonderful 3.5 minute film Mind of My Own / Journey won Best High School Animation at Flickerfest 2021 last Saturday night at Bondi Pavilion. Selected out of 26 finalists for Flickerfest, Mind of...
What a wonderful buzz we had around Hillingdon (Prep to Year 2) last Thursday for our Book Week dress-up day. There were Dorothys and Matildas, Nancys and Billies, Harrys and Hermiones, and a host of other marvellous and magical characters and creatures. We all enjoyed...
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...
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...
Mr Richard Charlton, Ascham's Composer-in-Residence and Coordinator of Guitar Studies, was recently named one of 'Nine Outstanding Australian Composers' in the online music magazine Interlude. Richard has been teaching at Ascham for 38 years. As well as his current roles, he was formerly Director of Music...
We were recently honoured with a visit by three Cultural Educators from the Tribal Warrior Aboriginal Corporation. Year 9 Elective Drama students participated in a workshop with Neville, Aroha and Joan, who helped them explore the Year 9 Drama unit on Reconciliation. Through chorus and ritual...
Our Year 12 girls have kicked some artistic goals lately with news that their endeavours across drama, music and visual arts are being held in high regard by HSC markers. Nominated for OnSTAGE, the showcase of exemplary HSC Drama Individual Performances and Group Performances, were nine...
At Ascham we love our drama and last weekend's Middle School Production Do We Ever See Grace? was dramatic, bold, colourful and brilliant. Twenty-seven students from Years 7, 8 and 9 took to the stage of the Packer Theatre. Director Mr Jon Suffolk described the play:...
