Carramar

Candid Conversation


Now well and truly immersed in Term 3, Carramar students are feeling inspired about their HASS studies after a recent visit from Dr Anne Aly MP, Federal Member for Cowan. Dr Aly met with Year 9 students who are beginning their Civics & Citizenship course, then visited the Year 12 ATAR Politics & Law class to discuss her experiences in Federal Parliament. Not only that, Dr Aly also spoke candidly with the Year 12 students about their hopes after high school and provided some words of wisdom as they prepare to move onto the next chapter of their lives. Thank you for visiting!

   

Clever Construction

Drawing on their teamwork and mathematical problem solving skills, Carramar’s Mathematics Enrichment students took on a challenge to build a giant six-level geodesic dome. Students are investigating the properties of geodesic shapes and how and why these shapes are used in building and construction. Take a look at how they went!

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Students on a Mission

St Stephen’s School Carramar Home Economics students put the old adage of learning with purpose into practice last term, drawing on their sewing skills to help those less fortunate.
Spurred on by the words of Mission Australia WA Chaplain Scott Vawser, who took time to speak to the students about the impact of drugs, alcohol and homelessness on Perth’s youth, the Year 11 and 12 students created care packages for Mission Australia’s Drug and Alcohol Youth Service (DAYS), which provides a comprehensive range of treatment and support services to youth battling drug and alcohol issues. Read more about their project here: https://bit.ly/2vqUmwF

Carramar Canberra Tour 2018

During the recent July holiday break a group of 19 Year 9 students and 3 staff from Carramar had the opportunity to participate in a 7 day educational tour to Sydney and Canberra. It certainly was a busy schedule and they managed to visit a host of special places which included the old Parliament and current Parliament Houses, Questacon, the National Capital Exhibition, the High Court, the National Gallery, the National War Memorial and the Australian Institute of Sport, as well as the Perisher ski-fields, where the students very much enjoyed the snow. They absorbed a considerable amount of Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy, with education and fun going hand in hand as it should.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank the Australian Government, who through their support of the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER), helped make the trip to the national capital more affordable through this funding process.

Special thanks to Mr Langley, Mrs Cross and Ms Percy for working with the awesome students who participated in this successful tour.

Joshua Plummer

Humanities and Social Sciences – Head of Learning Area

 

Out of this World Incursion

A group of St Stephen’s Carramar students and their families looked to the skies during the annual Space Night event, seeing the surface of the moon through a telescope, the Milky Way and taking a virtual tour through our Solar System. Guided by Scitech staff, who brought along a smaller version of their famous Space Dome, students, their siblings and parents settled in for an interstellar-inspired evening last month. Read more here: https://bit.ly/2LMjAwe

   

 

Parent Symposium 2018

Tickets for this year’s Parent Symposium are selling fast so be sure to get your tickets before it’s too late! Hear from guest speaker Dr Adrian Lopresti, a Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years experience working with children and adults suffering from mental health conditions, and engage with our guest speakers during the Q&A session. Tickets are available here: www.trybooking.com.au/VXCQ

NAIDOC Week

A brand new mural at UnitingCare West‘s Merriwa service hub, painted by our Carramar Year 10 students, was unveiled today in celebration of NAIDOC Week. A project of the Year 10 Service Learning Program, the mural creation encouraged students to embody Aboriginal culturural significance in their artwork while engaging with the local community.

Team Work Makes the Dream Work

Our Year 10 students teamed up with Rocky Bay recently to help pack bags for Vincent’s Project for the Homeless, a local charity providing care packages to those facing homelessness. This comes after St Stephen’s School students selected Vincent’s Project as a worthy charity to receive a whopping $16,000 donation from WA Charity Direct. It’s great to see so many like-minded individuals from our community joining forces to support a good cause.

Helping Hands

Our Year 10 students have been getting creative out and about in the community, participating in two days of Service Learning. One group of students have teamed up with Women’s Refuge in the northern suburbs to screen print t-shirts for ‘mums and bubs’. The design was created by one of the mums and was both screen printed and hand painted onto the t-shirts.

Clever Creation

Charis House have taken modern art to the next level, recreating a famous artwork while tackling a major environmental issue – pollution. The ‘Mona Litter’ made out of recycled plastic bags, meat trays and plastic bottle caps is a result of the joint effort from students past and present. The inventive artwork will take pride of place in Charis House.