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Friday, 02 Sept 2022

New Beginnings
There is something magical about a well-manicured, freshly cut lawn. For me, its neat uniformity brings about a sense of pride, achievement and satisfaction; or so I thought. You see, my wife is an avid gardener, a true ‘green thumb’, who thinks a beautiful, pristine lawn is called ‘grass’, and...
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Friday, 02 Sept 2022

Secondary Week of Worship
Week of Worship is an opportunity we have as a school to come together each day, spending time in community, learning about the goodness that God has for us. This week, we’ve had Pastor Aubree Harrington from Kellyville Church in Sydney share with our high school. She has taken us through...
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Friday, 02 Sept 2022

HRIS Volleyball
Avondale School played in the HRIS Volleyball tournament this week held at Broadmeadow. Our Open Boys’ and Open Girls' teams both made it to the grand final. This was a huge improvement from the previous tournament last term. Even though both teams played hard in each match, they went down in...
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Friday, 02 Sept 2022

Year 12 Geography Field Trip
Two days this week the Year 12 Geography class experienced in person some of the case studies used for their HSC course. On Tuesday they went to Barangaroo to learn about the urban dynamics of change including urban renewal and urban consolidation that have taken place. On Wednesday they were...
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Friday, 02 Sept 2022

All Schools Mountain Bike Championship
Last weekend 19 Secondary students and 4 teachers went to Canberra to compete in the All Schools Mountain Bike Championship. Avondale entered six teams across the three age categories. Congratulations to Aidan C, Matthew G, Jai L and Amy M who came 2nd in the mixed college category (Year 11...
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Friday, 02 Sept 2022

Year 11 Biology Excursion
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Friday, 26 Aug 2022

Enthusiasm
I have a confession; I like climbing trees. Yes, I’m an adult. No, I don’t do it often. However, show me a sprawling fig or a conifer with a few good branches that are low enough to the ground for me to pull myself up on, and I would have...
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Friday, 26 Aug 2022

Book Character Parade
Our fabulous Book Character Parade was held in the MPC on Thursday morning. There were SO MANY creative and colourful costumes worn by our Primary students! Our judges found the job of choosing only five students from each year level to be an extremely difficult task as the book character costumes were of such a...
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Friday, 26 Aug 2022

HSC Experiment Day at Avondale University
Year 12 Chemistry students attended a HSC Experiment Day hosted by Avondale University last Thursday August 18. Students completed four separate analyses: forensic identification of a white powder, a synthesis and biological assay, using a UV-vis instrument and a mobile phone colourimeter and finally an AAS analysis. Our students shared...
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