Ashfield College Student Services

With extensive experience in online learning, we stream all Day School classes plus all grinds classes.

All classes are also recorded, so students have an extensive back catalogue or e-library of recorded classes for the duration of their time with us in Ashfield College. We also utilise Moodle as an extra resource for students, providing a platform for sharing additional learning resources to our students.

In Ashfield College, we are lucky to have a Head of I.T. and a team of Support Technicians. Our teachers receive ongoing training in online teaching, helping students participate and interact whether they attend remotely or in person.

We ensure that all students whether online or face to face have ample opportunity to engage and interact in all classes. Online students have all the same supports as our face to face students. A blended version of our programmes is also available, whereby students can study a blended programme i.e. some classes online, some classes face to face in Dundrum.

Ashfield College’s e-learning platform, Ashfield Online, offers students a wealth of online resources which they can utilise from home or on campus, whenever and wherever suits them best. Students may avail of video lectures, class notes and other tools aimed at maximising the candidate’s examination performance. Remote access is available, and the site is password protected.

In Ashfield College, we value the importance of assessment and feedback in order to help students to steadily and safely prepare for their Leaving Cert exams.

As a result, in Ashfield College students will engage in a number of assessments at key points in the school year. In Ashfield College, we treat assessment as an important formative feedback mechanism as it informs students, parents and teachers on how a student is progressing in a subject.

As we provide extensive feedback, assessment is also used to provide detailed guidance as to how a student can improve in each subject area. Our teachers provide detailed, specific, actionable feedback, and reports are issued for parents after each set of assessments.

As we prepare students for the Leaving Cert, in Ashfield, we encourage our students, not to consider assessments as something to be scared of but rather, as incremental steps along a journey of progress as they prepare to sit their Leaving Cert. State Exams. This helps us to create happy, empowered students who work consistently and safely towards both academic and personal success.

We hold House Exams in all subject for 5^th Years in October (Autumn), December (Winter), February/March (Spring) and May (Summer). 6th year students sit exams in October (Autumn), December (Winter), February/March (Mocks) and Leaving Cert exams in June.