The View

Friday, 07 Nov 2025

The 1 Percenters
From 1908 to 2003, British Cycling had won just a single gold medal at the Olympics, and had never won the Tour de France. They were the laughing stock in world cycling. Manufacturers refused to sell to the team for fear it would hurt sales. Then in comes a man...
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Friday, 31 Oct 2025

Stepping Into Your Calling
We don’t know her name. We actually don’t know much of her story. We do know that she had been taken captive from her land. That she was a servant to the wife of Naaman, the man who commanded the army who took her captive. She could have stayed silent...
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Friday, 24 Oct 2025

The Best Boost of All
Recently I took my kids to get a drink from the popular takeaway store, Boost. We had been walking around the shopping centre and all three of us were in need of a pick-me-up. The order was the same as it always is; we have found our favourites to include...
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Friday, 17 Oct 2025

Mind the Sign
Last year in Tokyo, I had one of those moments you don’t easily forget. I was stepping into a small sushi restaurant tucked inside a busy Tokyo train station, the kind of place where the food is amazing, the service impeccable, and the doorways clearly not designed with 189cm Englishmen...
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Thursday, 25 Sept 2025

Kind or Caustic? You Choose.
When we think about kindness and compassion, our minds often go straight to actions: random acts of kindness, helping others, or serving our community. Yet one of the most powerful and lasting ways we can show kindness and compassion is through our words.  We live in a world where venting,...
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Friday, 19 Sept 2025

Seeing Clearly Without Seeing the Future
When was the last time you listened to the music of Brian Poole and the Tremeloes? Probably never I’m assuming. Most likely because you have never heard of them before. In 1962 Brian Poole and the Tremeloes auditioned for a spot on the artist roster of Decca records. Around the...
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Friday, 12 Sept 2025

Calm in the Chaos
All I could hear now was silence, so I carefully opened my eyes. The sounds of flying glass, crunching metal and breaking wood stopped as quick as it started. I found myself looking up, I had ducked just in time. A large fencepost entered the windscreen just above the steering...
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Friday, 05 Sept 2025

Nurturing the Next Generation of Educators
It has been a joy to welcome Chantelle into my 2P classroom for her final university placement. A proud Avondale School alumna, Chantelle is now studying Primary Education at Avondale University. Many years ago, she was my student in Year 4 and seeing her return in this new role has...
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Friday, 29 Aug 2025

A New Season for Worship
Since arriving at Avondale School, Week of Worship (WOW) has always brought with it a unique challenge transforming the MPC into a sacred space for worship. Converting a basketball court into a place of spiritual reflection doesn’t happen by accident. It has required countless hours of after-school setup, weekend preparations,...
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