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Old Girls Old Girls Business Directory: A directory of businesses owned by Abbotsleigh Old Girls.

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Old Girls 2020 Grant winner Nina Dunn (Tesoriero): Lighthouse for the Community provides frontline support for those experiencing domestic and family violence.

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Old Girls 2020 Grant winner Linda Dalton: Linda developed a community driven program to help Bellingen's young people to be the safest drivers they can be.

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Old Girls 2019 110th Anniversary Grant Winners: Rebecca Ladd (1981), Helen Hoskin (1969) and Gillian Truman (1999) were worthy winners in 2019

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Old Girls 2018 Grant winner Hannah Goodwin (2010): Hannah and her team chose to produce a play in response to the worsening violence against women in Australia and around the world

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Early Learning | Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Boarding | Old Girls Little Green Idea – Keep Your Cool This Summer: How can we keep cool without racking up financial and ecological debt?

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Early Learning | Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Boarding | Old Girls Little Green Idea: Christmas Shouldn’t Cost the Earth: There are many ways in which you can share the joy of Christmas.

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Early Learning | Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Boarding | Old Girls ARTEMIS Winners at FLL Sydney Regional: It was mission accomplished for our Years 7 and 8 teams at this exciting event.

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Senior College | Old Girls Farewell, Year 12: A farewell and some photos from the last few days of Year 12 activities.

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Senior College | Old Girls 2019 Year 12 HSC Showcase: Reflecting on the incredible effort and outstanding talent displayed in this year's HSC Showcase.

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Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Old Girls | History Abbotsleigh's 134th Birthday Celebrations: Happy 134th Birthday, Abbotsleigh!

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Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Old Girls | Giving 2019 Grant winner Rachel Scott: Taking music to the bush with AOGU grant winner, Rachel Scott (1990).

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Junior School | Senior College | Old Girls Old Girls Spreading an Important Message in the Outback: Ex-Abbotsleigh students and sisters present their two-woman play.

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Early Learning | Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Boarding | Old Girls A Marvel-lous Day: Microsoft held the international launch of Captain Marvel-themed STEAM workshops for girls at their Sydney flagship store – and Abbotsleigh was there. ...

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Middle School | Senior College | Old Girls Senior School Swimming Carnival 2019: Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre was alive with colour, chanting and house spirit this week.

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Early Learning | Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Boarding | Old Girls Grace Cossington Smith art award 2018: Selected from a shortlist of 37 artists, the winners of the three Grace Cossington Smith art awards were recently announced.

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Early Learning | Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Boarding | Old Girls | Giving | History For those whose futures never unfolded: Abbotsleigh's crocheters and knitters have contributed to the beautiful poppy installation at the Australian War Memorial.

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Early Learning | Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Boarding | Old Girls A letter from the Headmistress: I am very aware of the distress that my support of the Open Letter to Parliament has caused among members of our community.

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Old Girls AOGU 110th Anniversary Grant Program: The AOGU 110th Anniversary Grant Program: helping Old Girls pursue worthwhile endeavours across a range of activities.

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Early Learning | Junior School | Middle School | Senior College | Boarding | Old Girls Because of her, we can: NAIDOC Week at Abbotsleigh: Abbotsleigh celebrated NAIDOC Week with some very special visitors and their stories.

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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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