Rian Herlihy, a 16 year old Transition Year student at Ashton School, Blackrock Road, is bravely going where few have ever gone before. She is  attempting to swim the Straits of Gibraltar, a distance of 16-22kms from Spain to Africa in approximately 4 hours, depending on currents, to raise funds for Barnardo’s. Whilst most of […]

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Ashton students have been busy on many fronts over the last month, both academically, artistically in relation to the Transition Year musical ‘The Wizard of Oz’. Examination students have completed their oral examinations, and their project-work for practical subjects like Art, Geography and History,Home Economics, Material Technology (wood), Engineering and many more.  All the marks […]

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Congratulations to the Senior Girls who won the Senior A Plate toady, beating Sacred Heart School. Clonakilty.  500 total views

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Congratulations to Ashton Students who won the Best Life Science Project in their category at Scifest in CIT on 4/4/14.Their project investigated social media usage and its adverse effects.  The students are to be congratulated for all their hard work. Congratulations to all other team members from Ashton who also took part in the competition.  Many thanks to their […]

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  Congratulations to the Minor Boys who recentely won the Munster Minor Cup.  The team was coaached by Peter Catchpole.  Well done to all involved.  542 total views

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Students have been exceedingly busy participating in many and varied activities.   Fifth Year Physics students attended a Tyndall lecture on the physics of Martial Arts on Thursday 23rd January.  The lecture explained the physics behind the power of Taekwon-Do.  The basic principles of force, energy and momentum were used to calculate the power generated in […]

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