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.   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.   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 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.   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. 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. 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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Ashton School. Welcome to our newest students recently arrived from Ukraine, who are settling in well to Transition Year, making friends, finding their way in the Ashton world, becoming totally immersed in all that is happening, thankfully. While language is obviously being worked on in school, it is not stopping the friendships, good manners, inclusion […]

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Ashton School. May brings its own beauty, embodied in the emerging buds on trees and shrubs. We feel the excitement of good weather and the eternal optimism of what good summer weather might bring. A recent assembly was held to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge, co-ordinated by the Irish Department. Polished performances done with panache from […]

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Ashton School. As a school community, we are looking forward to Easter, the high point of the Christian liturgical year, yet doing so simultaneously with heavy hearts when we consider the plight of those living in Ukraine and other war-torn regions of the world. We extend our thoughts and prayers to all who suffer in […]

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