The Circus comes to Ashley!What a fantastic way to end the term and treat the hardworking children and teachers with an amazing circus day! The children enjoyed a hilarious, acrobatic show and each class had a super workshop - expect sales of flower sticks and juggling items to soar! Thank you to the Friends of Ashley for providing a wonderful experience for the whole school.
Ashley Sports Days!
On the class sports day, our two new trophies were awarded to Frogs in the infants and Hawks in the juniors - well done to both classes. On our house sports day, it was extremely close but the overall winners were Portland with 281 points. Congratulations, Portland! Berkeley came in a close second, Fletcher third and Shannon fourth. Well done to all the children, they certainly did their classes and houses proud. Thank you also to all the parents who helped on the day, setting up gazebos and with the ice-lolly sale at the end of the day. A big thank you to Miss Drew and Mrs Beresford for organising everything so well, to Mr Phil for his key part in the success of the two days, to all the staff and the past-pupil volunteers, who supported the day so well, and to Dylan Crawford, who has been truly outstanding all year in his PE apprentice role.
Nature's seven principles of Harmony provide a context for all our learning at Ashley School and allow our children to find a new way of looking at the world to ensure we work in harmony with nature.
At Ashley we believe that all children have the right to be safe in our society. Therefore, we recognise that we have a duty to ensure arrangements are in place for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children by creating a positive school atmosphere.
We ensure that the learning at Ashley is purposeful and has real meaning to our children. All of our classes enjoy their learning enquires and love to share their journey through words, pictures and more.
About the School
Ashley CofE Primary School is a growing three-form entry school of 540 children. From September 2018, we will have three classes in our infant years from Reception to Year 3, and Years 4 to 6 will be two-form.
There are two key aspects to our vision at Ashley CofE Primary School. The first is that, in line with the current high expectations around attainment and progress, we want our children to develop the appropriate skills, knowledge and terminology in English and Maths to enable them to be as successful as possible in these key areas. We know that the expectations are notably higher now, but we are working hard to ensure the children have real confidence in these areas of their learning so that every one of them can make good progress.
Secondly and most importantly, we want to put that learning in a context. So our planning starts by drawing out our enquiries of learning, working out the questions that will guide that learning over a half-term, agreeing the best way to culminate the learning with our Great Works, and linking and applying our core learning and foundation subjects to these rich, purposeful enquiry based projects.
We believe that this is what inspires our children to want to learn more and to develop a real love of learning in what they do. Beyond elements of discrete learning in phonics and spelling, as well as in English grammar and Maths concepts, our learning has relevance and is meaningfully applied. It is joined up. We believe it makes sense to our children.
The learning is underpinned by principles of Harmony that teach us how life and the world work. It is lived out through practices that focus on sustainability and well-being. It is delivered within a Christian ethos of love.
This vision of education is something we are keen to share with others; teachers, trainee teachers, parents and educators from around the world. If you are interested in what we are doing, please contact us to find out more.
Latest Ashley School Calendar Events
- Inset day04Sep2019
- Our Art Club Yr1-210Sep2019
3:10 pm - 4:10 pm @ Spare year 6 classroom
- Infant football Yr1-211Sep2019
3:10 pm - 4:10 pm @ Field
- Our Art Club Yr1-217Sep2019
3:10 pm - 4:10 pm @ Spare year 6 classroom
