Calling all current Year 9 and 10 students who are eager to broaden their service learning experience! We are currently accepting expressions of interest for the 2019 Indonesian Tour, held from 8 to 16 July. Working with the Bali Life Foundation, our students will engage in volunteer work at the orphanage and the Bali Life support services within central and southwest Bali. With expressions of interest closing next week, students are encouraged to visit Student Services to pick up an application form, or see Mr Drake, Ms Tinney, Ms Ryan or Ms Lund.
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Giving Back
Do you want to give back to the community but aren’t sure where to start or find the time?
Our Service Learning team are looking for parent and community volunteers to help out with the St Stephen’s School Food Carts for UnitingCare West at Westfield Whitfords and Lakeside Joondalup on a rostered basis. Help as much or as little as you like and know your time will be helping to feed those people dealing with homelessness. Register your interest on our Volunteers Website: https://bit.ly/2wDwVRf
GIVING BACKDo you want to give back to the community but aren’t sure where to start or find the time? Our Service Learning team are looking for parent and community volunteers to help out with the St Stephen’s School Food Carts for UnitingCare West at Westfield Whitfords and Lakeside Joondalup on a rostered basis. Help as much or as little as you like and know your time will be helping to feed those people dealing with homelessness. Register your interest on our Volunteers Website: https://bit.ly/2wDwVRf
Posted by St Stephen's School on Monday, 3 September 2018
Community Freezer
St Stephen’s Carramar are asking the community if anyone has an unwanted freezer that they would be willing to donate to the School to store food that staff and students prepare for Service Learning.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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.
Fun and Games
Carramar students, with help from teachers Mrs Renchia Clark and Mrs Beth McCoy, hosted a morning tea for special guests from Rocky Bay recently. The fun-filled morning wouldn’t be complete without bingo and board games, of course!
Service Good for the Soul
To showcase our volunteer opportunities and optimise engagement with the wider community, St Stephen’s School is launching an official St Stephen’s Volunteers website:
http://volunteer.ststephens.wa.edu.au/.
This new site will be the hub for all volunteering opportunities, news and events. The website invites parents and members of the wider community to register as volunteers and embrace the same passion for service our students experience through Service Learning. Read more here: https://bit.ly/2HldHmV
Uniting to Fight Hunger
Each fortnight, St Stephen’s School students and staff take two trips into the city to volunteer for the UnitingCare West Food Rescue. After our volunteers collect food from participating cafes around the city, it is distributed to feed members of six UnitingCare West Services such as Tranby Centre each night. Aligning with the School’s motto to ‘Serve God, Serve One Another’, our whole School community are on the roster for the Food Rescue runs, with Principal Mrs Donella Beare recently teaming up with Service Learning Coordinator Donna Lund to gather the goods. UnitingCare West Food Rescue feeds around 11,500 people experiencing homelessness each week.
UNITING TO FIGHT HUNGEREach fortnight, St Stephen’s School students and staff take two trips into the city to volunteer for the UnitingCare West Food Rescue. After our volunteers collect food from participating cafes around the city, it is distributed to feed members of six UnitingCare West Services such as Tranby Centre each night. Aligning with the School’s motto to ‘Serve God, Serve One Another’, our whole School community are on the roster for the Food Rescue runs, with Principal Mrs Donella Beare recently teaming up with Service Learning Coordinator Donna Lund to gather the goods. UnitingCare West Food Rescue feeds around 11,500 people experiencing homelessness each week.
Posted by St Stephen's School on Thursday, 31 May 2018
Caring For Our Community
Our Carramar Secondary students regularly visit UnitingCare West Community Options, a centre for adults living with disability. In their most recent visit, students used their woodwork skills to assist the Men in Sheds project. Students helped clients prepare and cook lunch and shared a meal with them.
Our students shine during each visit as they use their skills to help a worthy cause and get to know the members of our wider community.
