On Wednesday 19 May some of our Year 5 and 6 studentsÌýattended theÌýIPSHA Performing Arts Festival held atÌýPenrhosÌýCollegeÌýand presented a song and danceÌýrepresenting our gratitude and thanks for all the good in our lives. Gratitude allows us to pause,Ìýnotice and appreciate the things that we often take for granted.ÌýÌý The students sang a song calledÌýTodahÌýand danced to a fantas ...

By Rebecca, Annael, Hila andÌýRoyieÌýOn Sunday 2 May, Year 11 and 12 Hebrew students participated in the annual Hebrew Camp. We departed from School to spend the morning wakeboarding at Perth Wake Park. We then returned to the campsite for an afternoon of fun activities and were joined by Year 10 Hebrew students for a ‘Survival’ program with theÌýTzevet. After enjoying a delicious ...

On Thursday 27 May, the Year 2 Torah Enrichment class students were excited to receiveÌýtheir very first ChumashÌýfromÌýMrÌýLawrence at their Kabbalat Chumash ceremony.ÌýThrough song and educationalÌýgamesÌýthe studentsÌýshowedÌýtheir proud parentsÌýthe knowledge and skills they’ve picked upÌýover the last three and a half years.ÌýMazal TovÌýto our amazingÌýYear 2sÌýand a special thanks to Mo ...

Our Year 3 Kabbalat Chumash was a lot of fun for both parents and students on Friday 21 May.ÌýMrÌýLawrence welcomed everyone, students put their parents to work on worksheets with them and Morah Ester and Morah Hart's lessons on the Torah were incredible. There were even Hebrew word games on the interactive whiteboard, which our 3s absolutely aced, before each child received thei ...

In Week 5, various celebrations went on at our Primary School campus. On the Wednesday morning, our Preps shared aÌýcolourfulÌýtime with their parents in theÌýKikarÌýwhere they did crafts together, sang and heardÌýMrÌýLawrence talk about (and then show them) the Torah, which is such an important part of the Shavuot story.ÌýOur Preps presented their bikkurim and then shared recess with ...

Oliver celebrated his Bar Mitzvah with friends and family, the highlight of which was a Friday night dinner with parents, grandparents and cousins.ÌýÌý He enjoys family walks with Perry and Hazel (four legged buddies) as well as building glorious cities of Lego that adorn the shelves of his home,Ìýand dives into sci-fi and fantasy books. Oliver'sÌýfavouriteÌýChag is YomÌýHa’atzmautÌý ...

By Mrs AnneÌýPoustieÌý On the evening of Thursday 20 May, a group ofÌýCarmelÌýstudents attended the Global Health Short Course at Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research as an enrichment opportunity. They heard from a WHO Global Health Economist and learnt of his role in communicating with countries about the cost and profits involved in the implementation of a wide range of m ...

Our annual masterclasses are bedding in nicely in the lead-up to exam time. Alumni RuthÌýKarotkin, who teaches the Year 12 masterclasses for ATAR Human Biology, told us her student feedback so far has been good. “The structure of my 60-minute sessions involve some direct teaching of the revision content followed by time to work through short answer questions I’ve taken from past ...

Carmel’s English Department welcomed Mr Jon O’Brien at the beginning of Term 2 to teach Years 7 and 9 as well as Year 11 ATAR English. We tapped him on the shoulder recently to have a chat about his early impressions of Carmel and to delve a little into his professional and personal journeys before landing here. Before joining Carmel Jon spent 13 years at Hale School where, on ...

There are many superheroes at Carmel who quietly go about their day doing amazing things for our students and their families. Alicia Fernando-Lee, our School Psychologist slash specialist in what makes us tick, is absolutely one of those. Now in her tenth year at Carmel, Alicia booked us in between appointments to talk about her decade at Carmel and what came before, as well as ...