B MICROSOFT OFFICE SPECIALIST NATIONAL FINALISTS For the third year running, Avondale College has made a clean sweep in qualifying for the National Microsoft Office Specialist Championships. From 120 participating schools, just 20 national finalists have been selected - and all 20 are from Avondale College! The competition was fierce - with 310 students gaining perfect scores (1000/1000) in their qualifying rounds; 308 were from Avondale College! Congratulations to all our finalists, and we wish them all the best in the finals which will be held at Avondale College on Thursday 7 June. (See page 4 for finalists' names).
TERM 2 WEEK 6 6 June 2018
PARENTS EVENING Monday 11 June 2018, 7-8pm, n ext Avondale College Atrium wee k Avondale College wants to help every learner become a global citizen, and enable them to thrive in a safe, digital environment. We are running our annual Netsafe Parents' Evening on 11 June. Come along to find out how to help your children be responsible digital citizens and keep themselves safe online. The session will be led by Pauline Spence, Education Advisor at Netsafe. The Netsafe session will cover: • How you can support our school to be a safe and meaningful place for learning - and how home and school can support each other • Practical and useful approaches to digital technology that are most likely to work at home and school • How we can work together to grow our digital citizens
HEART AWARDS
Year 12 recipients of the Avondale College Gold Heart Award In recent weeks some Avondale College students have been presented with our inaugural Heart Award. This certificate recognises the student’s contribution to the College and the embodiment of our HEART values of honesty, endeavour, atawhai, respect and tenacity. Factors such as attendance, effort and attitude, involvement in co-curricular activities and service to the school are all considered, with points being allocated in each category to determine whether the standard of Gold, Silver or Bronze has been reached. Students who were awarded Gold Awards were presented with these at their year level assemblies, with Silver and Bronze awards being distributed by their home room teacher. Congratulations to all who have received a Heart Award – this is a fantastic achievement and well deserved.
About Netsafe • Netsafe is your first port of call when you need help or expertise related to online safety and online challenges • For online safety advice and guides visit netsafe.org.nz or call 0508 NETSAFE (0508 638 723) • Follow Netsafe on Facebook or Twitter (@ NetsafeNZ) We also recommend that attendees read Netsafe’s parenting advice at www.netsafe. org.nz/advice/parenting
NCEA INFO BOOK Students will be bringing home NCEA information booklets this week, please look out for them.
2018 CIE FEES All fees must be paid in full to Avondale College by Friday 29 June 2018, by 4.00pm.
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