Secondary News

Friday, 22 Aug 2025

Year 12 Business Services Zoo Excursion
The Year 12 Business Services class braved the wet weather to celebrate the near completion of their Certificate III Business with a visit to Taronga Zoo. This learning experience consolidated several of the modules covered in the course, and marked the beginning of their final unit, Work Effectively in a...
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Friday, 22 Aug 2025

Year 11 Geography Field Trip
The Year 11 Geography class embarked on a field trip to Port Stephens last week, on Thursday and Friday. There were extreme weather warnings for Thursday, and although this altered our morning plans, we were fortunate to be able to engage in fieldwork activities for the rest of the trip....
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Friday, 15 Aug 2025

Secondary Campus Celebrate Science Week
National Science Week on the Secondary Campus was packed with activities that sparked curiosity, celebrated creativity, and showed why Science is a pathway to innovation and exciting careers. The week kicked off with BIG SCIENCE at the Courts and Oval, featuring butane bottle rockets and the dramatic metaphorical 'explosion' of...
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Friday, 15 Aug 2025

Year 10 BStreetSmart Excursion
Last week, our Year 10 students attended the BStreetSmart event at Qudos Bank Arena, an engaging and eye-opening program designed to promote safe driving and decision-making among young people. The event is run by Westmead Hospital’s Trauma Service and aims to reduce road trauma by giving students the knowledge, skills,...
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Friday, 08 Aug 2025

Year 11 Hospitality Cater for Community Volunteers
This week our Year 11 Hospitality classes catered a special lunch to thank the local community volunteers for all they do at the Cooranbong Community Centre. The students prepared and cooked the food, set the function venue, waited tables, served food and beverages and greeted the volunteers. The students were...
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Friday, 08 Aug 2025

Year 11 2026 Pathway Discovery Expo
On Monday evening, our Year 10 students and families gathered for the 2026 Pathway Discovery Expo in the MPC. The event offered valuable insights into the Stage 6 curriculum, subject choices, the HSC, VET options, and our innovative senior pathway, PROPEL. Families had the opportunity to speak directly with teachers...
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Friday, 01 Aug 2025

Secondary STORMCo Trips
On July 4, our school sent two staff teams and over 50 senior students on our annual STORMCo trips. One to Narromine (a brand-new location) and the other to Cobar, a community we’ve served for 27 years.In both towns, students ran school holiday kids’ club programs, with 40 children attending...
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Friday, 01 Aug 2025

Students Perform at Staff PD
A few of our senior students took a break from studying for their HSC Trial Exams to share a blessing with school staff. Year 12 students Elina, Bianca, Soni and Leki got up early and put on their school uniforms in the holidays for a morning worship at the biannual...
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Friday, 04 July 2025

Secondary Music Ensembles Tour
Our recent Avondale School Music Tour saw students from Years 6-12 come together for a six-day journey across Queensland, sharing the love of music through our Orchestra and Choir. Over the course of seven performances and a Vespers program, students brought both their secular and sacred repertoires to life, performing...
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