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Ashton School News March 2024

By Geraldine Collins on Mar 11, 2024.  

Ashton School.   March brings out the daffodils, a ‘riot of colour’ giving energy and optimism to us all! We congratulate Junior and Leaving Certificate students who recently completed the Pre-Examinations in the lead-up to the State Examinations in June.  They now complete all projects, practical subject submissions and orals.  We wish them, their teachers […]

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Right Reverend Bishop Paul Colton visits Ashton on his 25th year as Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.

By Geraldine Collins on Mar 7, 2024.  

                                  Right Reverend Bishop Paul Colton of Cork, Cloyne and Ross visits Ashton on 6th March, 2024.   Right Reverend Bishop Paul Colton visited Ashton on March 6th, 2024 in celebration of his 25th year as Bishop of Cork, […]

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Ashton School News February 2024.

By Geraldine Collins on Feb 19, 2024.  

Ashton School. Mr. Richard Lester is the newly appointed Deputy Principal of Ashton School, succeeding Ms. Annemarie Hewison who retired at the end of October 2023. Having taught in Ashton from 2020 to the present, his appointment was greeted with great warmth and affection.  A strong sense of goodwill was extended to him from his […]

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Ashton School News January 2024

By Geraldine Collins on Jan 15, 2024.  

Ashton school. As we start a new year, we want to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year, and wish you all the blessings of peace, happiness, and most especially good health to you and yours throughout 2024! Ashton has had a very busy term up to the end of the year. Kerrie […]

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Ashton School News December 2023

By Geraldine Collins on Dec 4, 2023.  

Ashton School.   We wish all our readers the best of Season’s Greetings for Advent, Christmas and the New Year, hoping it brings peace to the world, in all its various facets. Transition Year students spent five days at Achill Island in October as part of their bonding and team building within the year group.  […]

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Ashton School News October 2023.

By Geraldine Collins on Oct 16, 2023.  

Ashton School.   As Autumn colours herald the arrival of the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ‘ (Keats), we celebrate and give thanks for all that is bountiful about the harvest, in Church, school and community. The results for Leaving Cert. Class of 2023 were excellent at all levels, the dedication and hard work […]

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Ashton School News September 2023.

By Geraldine Collins on Sep 26, 2023.  

Ashton School Retirement.   Time waits for no man, or woman, as in this case!!  And so Ms. Dorothy Fogarty announced her retirement from Ashton as a Home Economics Teacher prior to the conclusion of the school year. Dorothy started in Ashton in 1992 as a Home Economics Teacher.  Dorothy was also qualified as a […]

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Ashton School News April 2023.

By Geraldine Collins on Apr 26, 2023.  

Ashton School.   The academic year progresses at a frenetic pace once the mock-examinations take place.  Junior and Leaving Certificate students are studiously preparing for oral examinations, and also for practical examinations in many subjects across the curriculum.   We wish them, their teachers and their parents every good wish in all they are doing. Seachtain […]

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Ashton School News February 2023.

By Geraldine Collins on Feb 26, 2023.  

Ashton School. As the storms of Spring hail new growth, and ‘slightly’ brighter days create an exciting optimism in nature, with crocus, daffodil, snowdrops, hyacinths all making a great splash of colour in our gardens, or on the way to work!  The Lord works in mysterious ways, thankfully for all our benefit! Ashton school Drama […]

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Ashton School News January 2023.

By Geraldine Collins on Jan 26, 2023.  

Ashton School. As we start a New Year, we want to wish all our readers, peace, joy, good health and happiness.  The arrival of crocus flowers and snowdrops, reminds us of the definite presence of God in our world, despite the harrowing events across the world that humanity deals with on a constant basis.  Let’s […]

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