Ashfield Girls Celebrate Specialist Status
6th June 2006
Ashfield Girls Secondary School in East Belfast has received the substantial four figure-funding sum they required to help secure their new status as an ICT specialist school.
Since 2001 Ashfield have slowly but surely been developing a vibrant culture of learning that has information technology at its heart. This funding boost from the Phoenix Energy for Children Charity has now officially enabled the school to realise their goal.
This approved status means that Ashfield can unlock even more financial assistance from the Department of Education to provide high-level IT expertise and facilities that they will share with partner schools in East Belfast, including Mitchell House Special School and St Joseph’s Primary School in Ballyhackamore. They too will therefore reap the benefit as the sharing of expertise will help them in their efforts to embed ICT as part of their own learning processes. This will help every participant’s education and development, including children with learning difficulties and children from deprived areas.
Adeline Dinsmore, Principal of Ashfield Girls Secondary School, commented:
“The support from the charity has been very much appreciated by the school and we hope it will help to ‘grow’ the talent, innovation and entrepreneurial skills needed for the 21st century”.
The Energy for Children Charity set up by the natural gas industry aims to raise £100,000 towards the needs of disadvantaged children and to really make a difference to their lives
Pictured (L-R) Gas installer Paul De Haan (PDH Services) and Adeline Dinsmore (Principal) join Ashfield pupils (L-R) Rebecca Adams, Kerry Carleton and Jade Greenaway to celebrate the news that the school has received specialist ICT status.