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The Loom newsletter keeps our Old Girls up to date on Abbotsleigh and Old Girls' news and events. For sustainability reasons, we prefer to send The Loom via email so please ensure your email details are up to date; if you do not use email, please make sure that we have your current mailing address. You can update your contact details here. If you do not receive The Loom, and would like to, please contact the Old Girls Relations Manager, Heleen Fourie or call +61 2 9473 7740.  Below you will find recent editions of The Loom.

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Old Girls Abbotsleigh mourns the loss of Jill Ker Conway AC

It was with great sadness that the Abbotsleigh community learnt of the passing of well-renowned Old Girl, academic and author, Jill Ker Conway.

   

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Senior College | Old Girls Women, work, wisdom and wi-fi

Old Girl Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz presented on gender diversity in the workplace at this term's Archdale and Senior College Breakfast Club.

   

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Middle School | Senior College | Old Girls Abbotsleigh celebrates IWD, #PressforProgress and STEM

Abbotsleigh Old Girl, Katie Rigg-Smith, the Australasian CEO of Mindshare, helped us celebrate IWD. We later opened STEM Street in the Junior School.

   

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Old Girls AOGU Honorary President’s Remarks 2017

AOGU Honorary President Kim Boniface reflects on 2017 and all the Old Girls' association has achieved.

   

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Old Girls | History The first HSC cohort

Old Girls from the first Abbotsleigh cohort to ever sit the Higher School Certificate exams following its introduction in 1967 writes about their expe ...

   

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Senior College | Old Girls | History Tildesley Shield 100 years on

The Tildesley shield, a tennis tournament in which Abbotsleigh participates, celebrates its 100 year anniversary in 2018.

   

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Middle School | Senior College | Old Girls Leadership at Abbotsleigh

Abbotsleigh Old Girl and Deputy Headmistress Victoria Rennie talks about her love of education and her interests outside of school.

   

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Senior College | Old Girls Robotics at Abbotsleigh: Help the ARTEMIS Club

ARTEMIS is an acronym for Abbotsleigh Robotics Team: Engineering, Mathematics, Inspiration, Science. The team designed its logo with arrows to represe ...

   

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Old Girls An Abbotsleigh evening to remember

Our annual networking evening saw Old Girls gather to hear from a guest speaker at a restaurant owned by current Abbotsleigh parents.

   

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Old Girls | History The formation of our Old Girls' Union

Founded on 23 May 1908, the Abbotsleigh Old Girls' Union is amongst the earliest school alumni unions to be formed in Australia.

   

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Senior College | Old Girls What did we learn from Careers Night?

Abbotsleigh Careers Advisor Marg Selby reports on the recent Careers Night and some of the key lessons for students that came from discussions with Ol ...

   

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Old Girls Abbotsleigh Old Girls' Golf Day 2016

The Abbotsleigh Old Girls' Golf Day took place at Mona Vale Golf Course in November 2016, to contest the Presidents Cup and The Salver.

   

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Old Girls New Abbotsleigh Deputy Head is an Old Girl

Victoria Rennie (Gosper, 1987) has been appointed as Deputy Head and Head of Senior School at Abbotsleigh to commence at the start of 2017.

   

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Old Girls Abbotsleigh Old Girls' Union new executive committee

At the recent Abbotsleigh Old Girls Union AGM, our new Committee members and Executive team were voted in.

   

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Old Girls | Giving Vision in silk

Exclusive to Abbotsleigh is this beautiful silk scarf featuring the artwork of Old Girl and former Abbotsleigh Indigenous Scholar, Hannah Ranby (2013 ...

   

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Old Girls Award of excellence for an Old Girl

Microbiologist and Abbotsleigh Old Girl Dr Rebecca LeBard (Smith 1995) was honoured in September 2016 with a national award for teaching excellence.

   

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Junior School | Old Girls Our junior exhibiting artists

Four Junior School students have their art on display at the Sydney Children’s Hospital INSPIRE School’s Art Prize 2016 - and bump into an Abbotsleigh ...

   

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Old Girls All power to Kiana

Abbotsleigh Old Girl Kiana Elliott takes out silver and bronze in the the 2016 International Weightlifting Federation Junior World Championships at T ...

   

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Old Girls Lifetime achievement for Florence

Former Abbotsleigh student Florence Stockwell-Everts (Harding 1939) was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for her work as a landscape architect.

   

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Old Girls Taking the Barrier Reef to Paris

Artist and Abbotsleigh Old Girl Janet Laurence takes the message of climate change to Paris.

   

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Old Girls From little things big things grow

Abbotsleigh Old Girl Dr Karen Simmer received an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medicine in the field of paediatrics.

   

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Old Girls | Giving Passion for education and Indigenous affairs motivates a bequest

The success of the Indigenous Scholarships program has resulted in an increase in the diversity of our school. Here a former student tells why she sup ...

   

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Old Girls | Giving Yalari student reflects on her Abbotsleigh adventures

From Moree, Hannah was schooled at Abbotsleigh through the Indigenous Scholarship with the Abbotsleigh Foundation and Yalari. Here Hannah reflects on ...

   

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