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Friday, 10 June 2022

Royal Reflections
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Friday, 10 June 2022

ASSA Basketball Tournament
Our two senior basketball teams recently represented Avondale in the ASSA Basketball Tournament on the Gold Coast. This is an annual tournament involving 36 teams and 350 students. It was a full day of games on the Friday with finals on Saturday night. Our senior girls finished 1st, bringing home...
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Friday, 03 June 2022

Reconciliation
This week is National Reconciliation Week. It is a week where all Australians can reflect on our shared histories, our cultures and the contributions that bring us together as a people. Reconciliation implies the restoring of relationships and the healing of past hurts. It is not a single act, but...
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Friday, 03 June 2022

Year 10 Business Week
Congratulations to Year 10 Commerce for their outstanding Business Week. Despite the cold and windy weather, the regular slushies, ice cream cones, and soft drinks sold well. Cheese toasties, pasta, and hot milos were a logical addition given the lower temperatures. As always, the sales ‘tax’ raised during the week...
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Friday, 27 May 2022

Prayerfulness
Just like that, the whirlwind of political energy that was in our little town’s Community Centre last week is entirely gone. The posters are in the bin, the fliers are hopefully being recycled, and the bright, drastically oversized t-shirts worn by the volunteers for the various parties are now washed,...
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Friday, 27 May 2022

Year 7 & 8 STEM Challenge Day
Last Wednesday, some 29 Year 7 and 8 students made their way to The Great Hall at Newcastle University for the 2022 Build ME a Future Event (a Science and Engineering Challenge). Students participated in teams of three or four in challenges such as: Mars Rover (designing and building a vehicle to...
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Friday, 27 May 2022

KidsLitQuiz
KidsLitQuiz came to Avondale on Tuesday this week. KidsLitQuiz is a competition in the sport of reading - students compete in teams to answer the most questions on a wide range of topics, about all sorts of books. Twenty eager teams competed in the Newcastle Region KidsLitQuiz final for the...
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Friday, 27 May 2022

Secondary Athletics Carnival
The day started with patches of blue sky, but unfortunately it didn’t last. However, the heavy showers didn’t last very long and the weather progressively improved. Quedos to the 12-year-olds who bravely stepped up to the line and ran in the downpour. We expected to have lots of students away because...
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Friday, 20 May 2022

Learning to be Hopeful
We often think of hope as optimism, but researcher and author Brené Brown explains that hope is a way of thinking – a cognitive process. The great news is that hopeful thinking can be taught. C. R. Synder refers to the hope trilogy: 1. We know how to set realistic goals...
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