This week, residents at Regents Garden Residential Care Home were treated to a special Christmas Carol performance from Carramar students. The Primary Vocal Ensemble joined their Secondary peers in song as part of the St Stephen’s Service Learning Program. What a great opportunity to spread Christmas cheer while serving the wider community!
Carramar Senior Drama students ventured into Perth’s cultural hub last week. They explored the Heath Ledger Exhibition: Life in Pictures at the Art Gallery of WA followed by a viewing of Mr Robot by the Barking Gecko Theatre Company. After the show, the group were lucky enough to have a private question and answer session with the show’s director Matt Edgerton and the cast and crew. What a coup!
Our first St Stephen’s Global service tour to India departed Saturday 18 November. A group of 13 Year 12 students from Duncraig and Carramar will be working in and around Woodstock School, located at 2300m above sea level, in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas in Uttarakhand State. The group have been working hard over the last six months. They have prepared for their service by learning basic Hindi and studying Indian history, culture, people and issues of the region. They will also have an opportunity to visit Delhi and the Taj Mahal. We wish them all the best for the trip and we’re sure there will be many enriching stories to tell upon their return.
Carramar Year 10 student, Harman Heer has been named as the winner of Best Photographic Series in the Mesh at Murdoch Awards for 2017. Harman entered an inspiring series of wildlife images taken on a trip to Africa – his ultimate goal to become a National Geographic photographer. Head of The Arts at Carramar Mrs Lesley Nation said Harman was the first person she thought of when the competition application came across her desk. “I knew he had an impressive body of work and he is such an exceptional talent and a lovely, humble young man – what an exciting win for him and for the School.” Best of luck to Harman for the overall Gold Mesh Award announcement in December.
With our success in the 2017 LEGO League Robotics challenge, we are now looking for LEGO Robotic designers, builders and engineers for the 2018 International LEGO league challenge to again be held at St Stephen’s School next year.
The club will most likely run once a week after school and/or at lunchtime.
The club is open to anyone in Years 7 to 9.
Please fill in your details on the sign-up board outside Mr Drake’s office in CHARIS.
Let’s go LEGO let’s go!
Tim Drake
(Head of Technology)
Digital literacy, especially coding, is one of the top areas of knowledge and skills required by our students as they move on into industry, University, TAFE and other pathways.
In Years 7 and 8 our computer students are currently looking at coding via Scratch and Google CS-First as well as starting to look at simple HTML in some of their projects.
In Years 9 to 12 students electing to study Computer Science look at coding with Visual Basic, Python and online learning tools like “Grok Learning”.
Recently, a number of students have approached me for ways in which they can expand their coding knowledge or have access to our resources as they currently don’t do Computer Science.
In response to this request I have put together a list of FREE resources where students and even parents, can access free coding tutorials, many offering a Certificate at the end of the online course.
Please follow the “coding connections” below and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Kind Regards
Tim Drake
(Head of Technology)
Phone: 9306 7173
Tim.Drake@ststephens.wa.edu.au
This week the Year 12 General Human Biology class made ‘robotic’ hands using card, string, elastic bands and bendable straws. The aim of the project was to understand how joints, bones, tendons and muscles work together to move our fingers.
On Friday 10 November 2017, the newly appointed 2018 Carramar House Captains ventured to the Time’s Up Escape Room in Wanneroo. The aim, to develop better understanding of the importance of teamwork and building resilience.
The Captains worked enthusiastically, with great skill, tactical analysis and perseverance. Makaria and Charis were required to escape from a jail in the Wild Wild West in a challenge known as ‘Wanted,’ whilst Parresia were detectives in the ‘Pursuit’.
All the teams were successful in their quest to escape and they were once again released into the outside world. Finally, the Deans and captains debriefed about the impact of decision making and group dynamics.
Thanks to Mr Batten, Mrs Stockton-Rice and Mr Gilchrist for their leadership and support during this event.
St Stephen’s Carramar had their annual Sports Awards Night on Wednesday 8 November. Over 330 staff, students and parents were in attendance celebrating the achievements of our young sportsmen and sportswomen.
For only the second time St Stephen’s Carramar competed in the School Sports WA Champion Schools Competition and in doing so we had over 400 participants in 65 teams over 18 different sports take the field, court, track and pool in 2017. Whilst we are still chasing that elusive state title we did come close with our cricket, basketball and soccer teams all making the finals stages of the state wide competition.
We have had many individual success stories with many of our students making state and even national teams. In our school community we have numerous state representatives: Thalia Bryant, Imogen Resta and Emily Alexander in Netball, Daniel Vlahov in Basketball, Jordan Waldock in Baseball, Ky Landers, Nathan Alexander and Caleb Lampard in Beach and Hardcourt Volleyball, Brayden Smith, Jacob Smith and Byron Kimber in Swimming, Jaidyn Rodrigues in Lacrosse, Kirstin Rudgeley in Golf, Brooke Hurst in Hockey, Isabella Martin for Triathlon and Ami Dique and Isabella Lawrence in Equestrian. Elijah Thomas received an ACC All Stars nomination for athletics and Brayden Smith and Jacob Smith received ACC All Stars nominations for swimming. We really are surrounded by some amazing talent.
The group photo below shows our All Star Award winners, they are the students who were a part of our athletics, cross country and swimming inter-school teams. An amazing effort by all!
