Secondary News

Friday, 09 Sept 2022

Year 12 Retreat
The Year 12 students and staff experienced a few days away on the Year 12 Retreat, spending most of their time at Crosslands Youth and Convention Centre. The focus of the retreat was to spend time relaxing, reconnecting, refocusing and making memories as they count down the last few weeks...
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Friday, 09 Sept 2022

Year 11 Hospitality
Students in Year 11 Hospitality have been practising their skills in creating an antipasto platter and preparing themselves for the CAPPA Showcase Night this week where they catered for the event. Students throughout this term have been studying appetisers and salads, and making a range of culinary dishes to extend...
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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

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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Friday, 26 Aug 2022

Senior Volleyball Competition
Avondale Senior Boys and Girls teams played a friendly volleyball match against Macquarie College last week. It was a very close game for both our teams. The Girls eventually won two games to one and the Boys lost the deciding game when they were tied at one game all. We...
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