Parents and Parents' Association The active involvement of parents in the life of the school is actively encouraged. True education must be a three-way partnership between pupil-parent-teacher. Parent-teacher afternoons are timetabled during the school year (usually after an examination/assessment process following which a school report will have been issued). These afternoons are an opportunity for parents and subject teachers to meet and discuss the progress being made. Ashton School for many years has also had an active Parents' Association. The Parents' Association Committee, elected at an A.G.M. held in the autumn term, meets on a regular basis to discuss what is happening in the school and to plan events of social and educational interest for all parents. The school principal and teachers' representatives also attend meetings of the Parents' Committee. The Parents' Committee may be contacted by sending an email to ashtonparents@gmail.com. Newsletter from National Parents' Council November 2011 Members of the Parents' Committee are also members of the Ashton School Development Committee. This Development Committee also has representatives from the Board of Management, the 3 main Protestant Churches in Cork, and the Ashton School Students' Council. The Development Committee raises funds to provide facilities for the school which might not be provided were the school to depend solely on funding from the Department of Education. In recent years this committee has provided grants towards provision of a school librarian, laboratory assistant and upgrades of equipment in the computer room. The Parents' Committee organised a very successful fund-raising event to provide a substantial sum for the provision of a floodlit astro-turf hockey/soccer pitch in the school grounds. |