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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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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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Friday, 26 Aug 2022

Year 2 Visit the Science Lab
Students in 2E were fortunate enough to be invited down to the Secondary School Science lab this week, where Mrs Venegas helped us hypothesise, predict and make observations throughout several fun experiments and activities. Students were heard to exclaim, "Wow, look at the Copper Chloride burn!", and "I love the microscopes! I’m...
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Friday, 26 Aug 2022

Year 10 and 11 Astronomy Night
Interested Year 10 and 11 students recently participated in an amateur astronomy evening held on the Avondale School oval. Hosted and organised by the Physics teacher, Mr Kunz, the students were treated to views of some major star constellations, Saturn's rings and moons, and close up views of our own...
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Friday, 26 Aug 2022

Primary HRIS Athletics
Last Friday we took 70 Primary students to compete in the HRIS Athletics Carnival at the Hunter Sports Centre in Glendale. The students performed so well, both on and off the track. Avondale School came away with 1st place in the Division 1 HRIS Athletics event. We also took out the following...
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