Spring term highlights

Standing in Brake Hall during Awards Assembly at the end of last term, as it always does, gave us an amazing sense of pride as we see students picking up deserved recognition for all their academic and co-curricular efforts. As part of the boarding community at Ashford School, this is even more special as the students receiving their awards have reached their goals away from home, under their own steam. Congratulations all who were honoured that day!

The Spring Term concentrates such a huge amount of achievements into a small space of time and as usual, our boarders have been at the heart of it. From drama to music, sport to business, they've done it all. Instead of going on about it AIB is going to treat you to a visual Easter basket of highlights from this most jam-packed of terms. Enjoy!

Guys and Dolls:

A tale of love and dice in 1920s New York made famous by Brando and Sinatra. Boarders with English as their second language delivered a slick performance that dazzled audiences over three nights, despite the snow! Oh, and there was a rare appearance of Mr Vafidis and a Soprano sax!

The long arm of the law.

The oldest established...Jana, Johnathan, Bella and Janet 

Keeping eyes on the wise guys...

Young Enterprise:

Every year some of our Year 12 economists start up a company from scratch and try to market, sell and make a profit on a product they have designed and created themselves. This year we had 'Infinity' with their range of highly desirable designer tote bags - you could put your own image on it if you wanted - and as usual, ASIC became the base of operations. This year they even tried their hand at education! Here are some of the group at Goat Lees Primary School teaching younger pupils a little about the world of business. Looks like they had fun. The competition is next week guys, good luck!

(photos by Daniel)
Musical Mastery

This year AIB had the pleasure of attending not one, nor two, but three musical recitals put on by Mr Riley, his team and of course, a fantastically talented group of school musicians. Boarders featured heavily in the guitar and piano recitals as well as the superb Spring Concert, the centerpiece of which was Fauré's Requiem. 

Heedy and Andy strummed beautifully in the guitar recital. Johnathan, Angela, Tony, Julie and Albert all starred in the piano soirée, featuring works from Fauré, Beethoven and Bach as well as Chinese composer Piexun Chen. The evening was concluded by Claire's virtuoso performance of Chopin's Nocturne in Bb minor.

The Spring Concert was a veritable cornucopia of treats. We had hits from Matilda, an oboe solo, AIB's personal favourite 'The Hippopotamus Song' and of course the glorious Requiem, sung by our fantastic chamber choir (and the return of Mr Hall!). There was a brilliant boarding contingent including Jack, Marcella, Miso, Claire, Jonathan, Edwin, Sarah and Joyce on her accordion, not to mention a fair smattering of boarding staff. Brilliant job all!

Nerves of steel

Heavenly voices

Wow! What a term! Thank you everyone who took part and made it all possible. 

Now we must head into the Summer; a time when the tension can rise with the temperature, but as the leaves come out and the trees blossom we're pretty sure that our boarders will do likewise. 

Enjoy the sunshine and see you soon!