Jane Gaherty

To celebrate World Poetry Day, students were encouraged to write and submit a poem about “the world around them”, whether that was something they saw on their way to school or a world event featured in the news that week. There were no restrictions on form, rhyme or length so it was no surprise that […]

It has been wonderful to welcome children back to school this week and to see them setting back into the routines of school life so well. Our Lateral Flow Testing team would like to say “well done” for the maturity students have shown in adapting to the additional, new measures we have put in place […]

Ashlyns School’s celebrations for World Book Day this week included a student book quiz and a session by the the poet, Hip Hop artist and author Karl Nova.  Karl is the winner of CLiPPA 2018 for Rhythm and Poetry, his first published collection. Born and raised in London as well as Lagos, Karl is a […]

Ashlyns students have embraced the innovative literacy tool, Bedrock Vocabulary, since the start of this academic year. So much so, that Ashlyns School has been named as a top 10 secondary school for student engagement on Bedrock in the UK. Via the programme, students study hundreds of words whilst reading language-rich fiction and non-fiction texts […]

We are delighted to announce that Lola C, a Year 12 student of Ashlyns School, has won the Best Under 16 category for her short musical film “The Interview”. The Moving Image Awards (in conjunction with the BFI) recognise and reward the UK’s most talented student film-makers and screenwriters, encouraging more young people to consider […]

We are delighted that our students’ achievements and commitment to sport have been recognised by School Sport Magazine, listing Ashlyns in the UK’s Top 200 Sport Schools of 2020. We look forward to when fixtures and clubs can resume. In the meantime, our students are following their remote PE lessons and, of course, our weekly […]

Ashlyns School and Herts County Council are supporting the Creative Earth challenge, an art competition run by the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference. Students will paint, draw or design a piece of art that shows how they’d like our planet to look in the future – full details can be found here Together for […]

On 29 January, Ashlyns parents were able to explore ways in which to give optimal support to their teens during lockdown with Dr Kathy Weston. In her interactive webinar ‘Helping Teens Cope with the Coronacoaster’, Dr Weston answered questions on on the issues which so many families are currently navigating: uncertainty, lack of social activity, […]

We continue to be extremely impressed by students’ attitude to learning and engagement in their live lessons. They are producing excellent work, demonstrated perfectly here, in our latest collection of Art work.

The school is looking beautiful in the snowfall – we hope all Ashlyns families enjoy it as much as Peggy, our wellbeing dog, seems to be………..

The new Ashlyns eLibrary, with over 1200 popular fiction titles, is available to all students – particularly important during remote learning.  Our LRC team also offer book recommendations and reading suggestions to students whilst they are at home: they can email rlambert@ashlyns.herts.sch.uk with their favourite titles/genres and, in return, the LRC will send ideas for […]

End of Term ‘bubble’ based assemblies have taken place this week and, throughout December, we have enjoyed the beautiful Christmas trees donated by Christmas Tree Place and decorated by our Sixth Form students. Normally, at this time of year, we welcome our local senior citizens to a carol concert in the Chapel followed by tea […]