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Friday 23 May 2025 Year 12 Physics Trip to MSSL 20 Year 12 physics students headed the Mullard Space Science Laboratory on top of a hill in Holmbury St Mary to find out more about Solar Physics and Solar Flares, Black Holes and satellites.
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Saturday 12 April 2025 Sportshall National Champions GOLD - for the Surrey U15 boys Sportshall team at the national finals in Stoke-on-Trent. Five of our Year 10 boys made up the majority of the 7-strong team which won the title.
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Tuesday 25 March 2025 STEM 'Speed Dating' for Year 9 The Year 9 STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology and Maths) ‘meet the professional’ event is now a popular date in the school calendar, providing students with an unrivalled opportunity to encounter new and different professions, skills and careers.
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Monday 10 March 2025 News Roundup Roundup of some of the latest news and events at The Ashcombe School - its' been an action-packed term so far!
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Saturday 25 January 2025 Serious Swimming! We took a team of 15 swimmers to the Surrey Schools Gala at the Spectrum in Guildford on Saturday. They have been training incredibly hard and put in such a good performance. Most of the other schools competing are independent schools with their own swimming pools, so our team were very proud to do so well.
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Tuesday 21 January 2025 Business Challenge for Year 8 Entrepreneurial. Creative. Competitive. Driven. Just a few of the words to describe the Year 8 Teams involved in the recent Business Game held at The Ashcombe School on Tuesday 21st January.
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Monday 13 January 2025 Sensational STEM Structures Ranmore Hall was abuzz with the sounds of keen competition as teams from various years tackled the STEM engineering challenge on Monday 20th January.
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Thursday 19 December 2024 The Ashcombe does Christmas - Senior Citizens 2024 A school hall transformed into a scene of festive fun, with lots of happy smiling faces the day before school broke up for the Christmas holidays – yes, The Ashcombe School annual Christmas celebration with the local community was back!
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Tuesday 17 December 2024 Carol Concert 2024 The last weeks of the Autumn Term are always filled with some wonderful occasions to showcase school talent and musicality to the local community and one of the favourites is the Carol Service at St Pauls Church in Dorking on Tuesday 17th December 2024.
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Thursday 5 December 2024 Upper School Musical Masterclass Thursday 5th December saw bright lights in the Bradley Performing Area auditorium welcoming an eager audience to a feast of talent.
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Thursday 28 November 2024 Royal Courts of Justice The Criminology department took 24 Year 13 A Level students from across all social science courses to the Royal Court of justice in London for a very exciting murder trial workshop.
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Monday 25 November 2024 A Family Triumph They were spooky, they were kooky, they were fantastic and received nightly standing ovations at four sell out performances of The Ashcombe School production of The Addams Family this month.
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Monday 11 November 2024 Remembrance November 2024 Remembrance Day is always marked at The Ashcombe School with a ceremony involving staff, students and members of the Ashcombe Dorkinian Association and is made more poignant when the 11th November falls on a school day. This year the sun shone and the setting of the Memorial Gates against autumn foliage provided a fitting backdrop.
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Friday 18 October 2024 Geography Fieldwork - Dorset Delight One of the most important aspects of geography is fieldwork, and recently Year 13 experienced 4 amazing days out and about in Dorset, working towards their A Level non-examined assessment.
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Saturday 5 October 2024 Debate Success - again Our debate team spent the day at Dulwich College on Saturday 5th October, and showed every sign of continuing last years' successes which got them to the Oxford Union finals! They took part in 4 debates across the day with only 15 mins to prepare for topics like consensus media, immigration assimilation policy, nationalisation of legal services and the US election through popular rather than electoral vote.
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Wednesday 25 September 2024 Careers Fair 2024 Another hugely successful Careers Fair at The Ashcombe School unfolded on 25th September 2024, with a wider than ever range of Higher and Further Education, company and carer stands in Ranmore Hall, the Library and the gym. With over 500 students and parents attending and 120 exhibitors, the school was buzzing.
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Saturday 21 September 2024 Swimming Gala Successes Did you know The Ashcombe has a swimming team? We don't have a pool but compete every year in school's events across the region.
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Tuesday 17 September 2024 Brighton Pavilion - an Art Inspiration As a source of inspiration for art, architecture, design and history, the Royal Pavilion in Brighton is in a class of its own. Year 11 spent very productive days enjoying the last of the summer sunshine sketching and recording this wonderful example of the vision of a king.
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Thursday 22 August 2024 Class of 2024 GCSE Results The Ashcombe School in Dorking is celebrating excellent GCSE results as students collected their grades this morning.
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Monday 19 August 2024 A Level Results The Ashcombe School in Dorking and its students are celebrating excellent A Level results today with all students gaining a place for future study, and with the majority receiving their first choice, opening up opportunities at university, apprenticeships, work, and travel.
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Monday 22 July 2024 Sponsored Walk 2024 As a very busy Summer Term drew to a close, and with Activities Week still fresh in the memory, there was still lots of enthusiasm for the annual Sponsored Walk a chance to enjoy the amazing surroundings we live in and raise money for school projects. This year it was 10K for Toilets as we look to refurbish the toilet block near the Dining Hall to bring it up to standard with all the other facilities.
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Thursday 18 July 2024 Activities Week 2024 We are drawing a close on this year's Activities Week. It has been a week packed full of different activities and experiences which have enabled students to learn, work with new people, have fun and challenge themselves.
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Tuesday 4 June 2024 Community Spirit Not everything that happens at The Ashcombe is about the big or the spectacular - every day in school there are small acts of kindness, community and goodwill which are part of the fabric of everyday life in the school.
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Wednesday 15 May 2024 Just Brilliant! On Wednesday 15th May, the hard work and dedication of our Year 10 Brilliant Club students were celebrated at a graduation event at University of Oxford to mark their completion of The Brilliant Clubs Scholars Programme.
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Tuesday 14 May 2024 Physics, Climate Change - beyond Science at The Ashcombe Science is a popular and exciting subject at The Ashcombe School and there are many opportunities for students to be inspired and explore all its facets further - the last few weeks have seen two different but equally engaging topics explored.
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Friday 10 May 2024 A Golden Day at Buckingham Palace Friday 10th May was a perfect summer’s day and what better way to spend it than at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party celebrating The Ashcombe School’s Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Awardees in the presence of HRH Prince Edward, The Duke of Edinburgh.
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Friday 10 May 2024 Year 13 Ready for A levels and Beyond With GCSE exams underway from Thursday 9th May, Friday 10th saw The Ashcombe bid an emotional and enthusiastic good luck and goodbye to our Year 13 students. For many, it was the culmination of seven years at The Ashcombe School and offered some amusing and thoughtful reminders of all they had shared, learnt and experienced together.
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Tuesday 7 May 2024 Eezykit make it look simple Eezykit, the company set up by 8 Year 12 students, is not only trading successfully online but also was a finalist in the Young Enterprise Surrey Company of the Year competition - and won the coveted Sustainability Award.
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Thursday 2 May 2024 Good News for Chatterbox In the recent Ofsted inspection visit, Chatterbox was rated Good, not just as an overall rating but in all the areas which Ofsted highlights: Quality of Education, Behaviour and Attitudes, Personal Development and Leadership and Management.
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