Latest news at Ashmount School......

• Students win 'Spirit of the Games' awards at SEND Sports Championships

  Fri 29 Mar 2019

  Two teams from Ashmount were recognised for their terrific teamwork at the recent SEND Championships held at Loughborough University.

   

  The event was an opportunity to showcase the wealth of sporting talent in the mainstream and special schools in the area.

   

  Key Stage 2 teams competed in the Boccia and New Age Kurling Championship—both receiving the ‘Spirit of the Games’ trophy for their great team efforts.

   

  Students with more complex needs also took part in the MATP showcase. The children had been working really hard on their MATP targets in school and were absolutely brilliant when showcasing their individual talents in the event.

   

  Ashmount students were also invited to perform their own dance in the opening ceremony of the games.

   

  

• British Science Week

  Fri 29 Mar 2019

  Students celebrated Science Week recently with an array of weird and wonderful workshops.

   

  The over-arching theme this year was plastics—and how we can reduce, reuse and recycle.

  Pupils were encouraged to make plant pots, musical instruments and wind-powered vehicles from junk. They also got to explore the solar system through a multi-sensory experience—and looked at gravity and friction in the ‘Forces Zone’.

   

  Students watched in wonder as ‘Atomic Abi’ from Mad Science demonstrated some extraordinary experiments. There was also an opportunity for students to interact with a whole host of exotic animals, including snakes, lizards, spiders and birds.

   

• Red Nose Day Fundraising - 15th March 2019

  Wed 20 Mar 2019

  Thank you to all of our staff, pupils and their families who helped raise money for this year’s Red Nose Day.

   

  Key Stage 4 led this year’s events with a Cake Sale. Together with the sale of red noses, a total of £234.51 was raised.

   

• Ashmount pupil names new Gritter

  Tue 05 Mar 2019 School Manager

  The three winners of the Name the Gritter competition have been revealed via Leicestershire County Council.

  Councillor Blake Pain, cabinet member for environment and transport, had the difficult task of choosing the winners from more than 160 suggestions and went for:

  • King Gritchard III;
  • Gritternator; and 
  • Sparkle.

  The three new vehicles, complete with their new monikers, will now be on standby along with the rest of the gritting fleet should temperatures fall below freezing during the coming weeks.

  Theo Jones from Ashmount School, Loughborough, and pupils from Red Hill Field Primary School, Narborough, Birch Wood School, Melton Mowbray and Beacon Academy, Loughborough, were invited to the council’s highways depot in Mountsorrel to see the names brought to life on the vehicles.

  Each winner received a certificate, a book voucher, and a chance to sit in the new gritters. The schools also received a book voucher.