There will be more of a buzz than usual around Ashville College’s Senior School and Sixth Form Open Morning on Saturday 9 March, after the school announced outline plans for the biggest investment in its academic and sporting facilities in its history.
Ashville, which is located off Green Lane in Harrogate, is developing a campus masterplan that will add pace and scale to the transformation of large parts of its estate ahead of the school marking its 150th anniversary in 2027.
The Open Morning will be a fantastic opportunity to hear more about the plans in person, as well as tour the facilities and get a feel for the school environment and quality of its academic and co-curricular offering.
A dedicated day school
The investment heralds the start of a new era for Ashville as it focuses on becoming exclusively for day pupils, who currently form more than 90 per cent of its growing school community.
Its boarding offer will gradually be phased out, freeing up space that will be reimagined and repurposed to enhance the educational experiences and opportunities that Ashville offers all its pupils.
In a letter to parents on 7 February, sharing an insight into the future vision for the school, its Head Rhiannon Wilkinson said:
“Investing in both facilities and educational opportunities will be a great source of future strength for the ‘new’ Ashville.
“The decision to wind down boarding is made from a position of confidence and it brings us many opportunities as an all-through, co-educational day school.”
Investing in your child’s future
“Our plans revolve around a commitment to creating a culture of academic aspiration and success, a nurturing environment for every single pupil, an inspiring co-curricular provision and the development of skills, ideas, talents and capacities to face the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century,” Mrs Wilkinson continued.
“We will be able to develop our teaching spaces to accommodate the new styles of teaching and learning and curriculum design which a changing world of work necessitates.
She added: “We have plans to develop social and study spaces for our pupils and we are keen to invest further in our sporting facilities.
“We also want to redesign and upgrade a number of other areas across the campus as we further develop a modern learning environment for all our pupils.”
What happens next?
The school has already started to partner with architects and designers to take forward its vision. It has pledged to share more details and images of the planned improvements next term, when parents, pupils and staff will be invited to give their views.
If you are interested in Ashville as a day school for your child aged 11 to 18 and want to find out more about its exciting future, don’t miss the Senior School and Sixth Form Open Morning on Saturday 9 March. To register, click here.
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