With over 100 students officially absent and close to 100 more attending the game at Hershey, the hallways and classrooms at the high school on Friday, November 16th were quite empty. Here’s a look at where students were and were not as the boys started playing around 1:30, including heavily deserted classrooms and hallways without…
Category: School Life
Avonworth Test Scores are Above the Norm
Across the board, Avonworth students score much higher on standardized tests than students from across the state. The average scores for Avonworth students are higher than the state’s average as seen in the chart above. Curious as to why this might be, we spoke to Avonworth seniors about how Avonworth prepared them for the…
Politics into Projects
8th Grade is turning politics into projects. Earlier this year, the 8th grade class of 2023 worked hard on a project based around the election’s candidates. They created projects and heavily researched an opinion their candidate has on a subject. For example, some groups made a trivia game based on their candidate while others may…
Thousands, Including Avonewsonline Staff Member, Attend Vigil for Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting
On a raining Sunday evening in November 2018 over two thousand people gathered together in the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Oakland, more than a thousand others flooded out of the doors into the rain to make known that “The tree of life will never be uprooted by hate.” On Saturday, October 27th…
Challenged by Change?
Throughout the Avonworth School District, more specifically the high school, a mass tradition is the Change Challenge. What does it entail? Over the course of two weeks, LEAD classes compete to raise the most money — specifically change, as the name states — for the Free Care Fund in hopes of a free breakfast sponsored…
Avonworth Sports Teams Traditions in 2018
Every team has its traditions when it comes to game time. Either it’s pep talks, dressing a certain way, or many years of the same practices. Going into Avonworth winter sports, swimming and basketball, each team has their own “rituals”. We sat down with several team members from the winter sports teams as the season…
Avonworth’s Fall Play: “Clue: On Stage” opens rehearsal after ticket sell-out
As a great detective, and a butler named Wadsworth once said, “The game’s afoot!” Avonworth High School’s 2018 Fall Play is Clue. It is a play filled to the brim with comedy and suspense! It is a show I personally recommend everyone go and check out. From the costumes, to the props, it is a…
‘Swerp’: Taking Over the School
“Swerp”: you’ve heard it all around school, but what does it mean? Whether you are walking down the hallways, in class, or in the cafeteria, you probably have heard someone use “swerp” this school year. Junior Garren Hoffman comments, “I’ve heard a lot of people say it in place of ‘swear’.” This holds true for…
2018 Football Season Wrap Up
As all of the fall sports came to an end, Avonworth looked to make a big push in the 2018 WPIAL playoffs but unfortunately came up three points short against Freedom in the first round; however, this doesn’t diminish a strong regular season record of 7-4. Led by a high powered passing offense with…
Vol 77 Issue Is Out – Share Your Thoughts
What’s good, what’s ok, what needs to go, what needs to be included in the winter issue? Post your thoughts.