School principal knows the value of being valued

Michelle Curran

By Michelle Curran
Published August 1, 2017

The overarching aim of the staff at Albany Senior High School (ASHS) when it was first established in February 2009, was for every student to experience the dignity of being a valued learner at the school.

While goals are still works in progress, founding principal Barbara Cavangah believes she is seeing this ideal realised.

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