Secondary News

Friday, 28 July 2023

Year 11 VET Work Placement
Students have been busy 'on the job’ over the past few weeks completing their work placement requirements in their chosen industry field. Last week the Hospitality and Construction students experienced a week in industry learning many valuable skills; communicating with customers and working in teams. The VET department at Avondale...
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Friday, 23 June 2023

Year 8 English Visits Kindy
In Year 8 English students have commenced a project where they are working both individually and collaboratively to answer the driving question of “How can we engage and educate children through picture books?” The project asks our Year 8s to create an engaging and educational picture book for a Kindy...
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Friday, 23 June 2023

Year 10 Solar Hot Water Project
Year 10 students who are currently learning Physics in their Science classes, completed a task which required them to design and build a solar hot water heater. Learning about how energy changes form and making it a real life experience is valuable in our current world climate. Testing was completed...
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Friday, 16 June 2023

PROPEL Visits Radio Rhema
PROPEL students had the opportunity to visit Radio Rhema Newcastle this week as part of their English Studies course. The staff at Rhema facilitated a fantastic day that included going live on air during a show, a site tour of the various elements that are part of a radio station,...
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Friday, 16 June 2023

School Captains Visit NSW Parliament
Our School Captains and Vice Captains visited NSW State Parliament a few weeks ago as guests of our State Member and Speaker of the House, Mr Greg Piper.
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Friday, 09 June 2023

ASSA Basketball Tournament
After a big day of games at the ASSA Basketball Tournament this week, our Secondary Junior teams had some excellent results!AVD Girls came 3rd in the Premier DivisionAVD1 Boys came 1st in the Premier DivisonAVD2 Boys came 3/4 in the Premier DivisionJayden T was MVP of his division and was...
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Friday, 09 June 2023

Secondary Athletics Carnival
It was a great day the other week for our Secondary Athletics Carnival. There was high participation in most age groups. The overall results are not available yet as we still have a few javelin events and the 1500m to complete. The House Captains did a great job and were...
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Friday, 02 June 2023

The Chicken Coop Project
In Mrs Nevell's Food Technology class, Ethan S and Daniel M became increasingly aware of the amount of green waste being thrown into the bin. They believed that there must be a better solution for the environment. Determined to make a change, the boys embarked on a mission to persuade...
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Friday, 26 May 2023

Year 10 Geography Excursion
Year 10 students went to the Newcastle foreshore and Nobbys Beach last Friday to study Environmental Change and Management. They learnt about sediment deposition, waves and tidal action, erosion and dredging. It was a sunny and calm day, perfect conditions for Geography fieldwork outside the classroom. 
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