Starting in August 2023, LEAD will move to lunches and mod A will become, for many, the first period of the day. For the remaining 9th through 11th grade students at school throughout the last weeks, LEAD offered students a chance to wake up, prep for finals, purchase coffee from The Lopes Lounge, complete homework…
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Last Days of The Library/Collaboration Center
Friday, June 2nd finished not only the 2022-2023 school year, but an unexpected year of transitions, adjustments, and eventual downsizing for the high school library. Rededicated in memorial for former Social Studies teacher Jeffery Boggess in 2015, the Collaboration Center was scheduled to downsize and make room for four new classrooms. Due to increasing construction…
Awards Assembly Returns To The Auditorium For The First Time Since 2019
Students in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade joined community members for the first Awards Assembly in the auditorium since 2019. Among the new challenges in the past four years is seating capacity. Administration decided to livestream the assembly into 9th grade teacher’s classrooms instead of testing that the total attendance would exceed the total seats….
Get to know 2023 – Ms. Shannon David
The one new full-time faculty member in the 2022-2023 school year was Language Arts teacher Ms. Shannon David, who taught Academic 12 and Creative Writing 1 and 2. Here are a few of her answers to the Get To Know Questions… Where did you go to high school? Derry Area… What’s that like compared to…
Student Schedules Released
Around 5 AM on Wed May 31st, Mr. Como sent an email to AHS students with information about student schedules. Here is the e-mail: Good morning! As another school year comes to a close, we reflect upon our experiences; what we have lost, what we have gained, and what we have learned. We wish our graduates…
Students Attend Short Assembly for AP Classes in 2023-2024
Rising juniors and seniors attended a meeting during the last-ever morning LEAD about AP classes and summer work. Dr. Dwulit gave a brief address before allowing the teachers to talk about their classes and what students would need for summer work. Several of the current sophomores seemed to think that the meeting was unhelpful. “It…
Buzz Cuts On The Last Day, 2023
Avonworth’s getting choppy: (Luca Neal(26)) Many students of Avonworth have decided to come to school and get buzz cuts. This has been a thing in the past, but today, the last day of school, there have been many haircuts. (Maks Milojevic(26)) Maks says, “I have been talking about getting the buzz on the last day…
New Entrance and Exit Traffic Pattern On Campus Closes Out 2023-2024 School Year
Please see the video below to view the new traffic pattern. Major changes? Everyone enters through a side door, not the main entrance. The road into the student parking lot is now One Way…so leaving school will be much slower for students. If you drive, you’ll be leaving after the busses, and through the old…
Avonews Staff Earns First Place Awards For 22-23 Issues from American Scholastic Press Association
On the last day of school for the seniors on the 22-23 Avonews staff, the timing could not have been more special. Co editors Laurel and Matthew Purcell led their staff to a First Place with Special Merit award and Best High School Digital Newspaper [500-1000 students] award from the American Scholastic Press Association. Editorial…
J1 Eats: Unusual Flavors From Big Brands At Giant Eagle
On Friday, May 26th, 2023, students in the Journalism 1 elective sampled a variety of foods you might see, but probably not buy, at Giant Eagle just down Camp Horne Road. As the Avonews Online staff worked on captions for the Awards Assembly, they experienced the good, the bad, and the odd of unique Pop…