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Badminton Championships

State Open Age Badminton Championships

Twenty Carramar St Stephen’s School students took part in the State Open Age Badminton Championships, Friday 16 June at Kingsway Badminton Centre. Congratulations to all who took part.

Special mention to Rajit Bose, Jak Van Den Bussche, Angelia Effendi and Ansu Soney, who made the quarter finals and Youstina Takla and Riya Shah, who made the semi finals. A fantastic effort!

Duke of Edinburgh Inaugural Camp

Last week 30 students from Yr 9 ventured down to Dwellingup to participate in the inaugural Duke of Edinburgh camp. Students got the opportunity to put in to practice the skills they had been learning in Outdoor Education classes this semester. They got to cook their own meals using small fuel stokes, setting up tents and camping over night on the School’s Nanga property in between spending two days hiking on the Bibbulmun Track. Whilst we all got little wet through the night the weather during the day was perfect to enjoy the beauty of the Dwellingup jarrah forest.

Year 9 Junior Boys AFL

With the last round of the qualifying stages being played this Thursday the Junior Boys Football team have had some mixed results. We started off our first round game with a great come from behind win against Joseph Banks only to lose the next four games at home. Facing Wanneroo Secondary College’s second side, the team was looking for a stronger performance after a poor showing against Irene McCormack the week before. The first minute set the tone of the game with a strong forward entry and a couple of near misses before finally scoring a goal. The remainder of the game was a one way street with the final score of 10.14 – 74 to 0 a reflection of our dominance across the ground.

This week sees our last game on Thursday against Butler away. Many thanks to all of the parents who have come down and supported the boys through out the competition.

High Achievement in Sport – Daniel Vlahov

St Stephen’s Carramar student, Daniel Vlahov set to debut for Wolves…

The Joondalup Wolves will debut a St Stephen’s School student with a famous basketball name when the side faces East Perth in the State Basketball League on Saturday 17 June.

At 16, Daniel Vlahov, who is a relative of Perth wildcats great Andrew Vlahov, will be one of the youngest debutants in recent seasons. Daniel impressed coaching staff who invited the shooting guard to train with the senior squad at the end of last year.

Joondalup coach, Ben Ettridge said the St Stephen’s School student, who has been with the Wanneroo Basketball Association since childhood, had made the most of his opportunities in pre-season training and practise. “As a lightening quick, sharp shooting point guard, we gave him the appropriate time and opportunity to focus on his under 18 WA state commitments this year.” Daniel’s Division 1 performance under Coach Doug Gates have culminated in his promotion to the senior squad.

Wolves chief executive, Cameron Britt said Vlahov’s achievement to “break into this star-studded Wolves line-up at 16 years of age, speaks volumes for both his ability and his attitude”.

Daniel will also represent WA in the 2017 under 18’s Basketball team, competing in the Canberra National Championships, 11 – 18 August.

Debating

Congratulations to our Novice debating team who won their debate on Tuesday 30 May against Duncraig Senior High School in the West Australian Debating League competition.

The topic of the debate was, “That schools should prioritise the learning of indigenous languages over foreign languages” and we were the negative team. We created a compelling argument against this motion by stating that logistically this would be very difficult to implement, and there are more effective ways of teaching respect and understanding for Aboriginal culture.

Well done to Darcy Beckitt (7), Tahlia Beckitt (8) and Falgun Batavia (7).

STEM Club

The primary STEM Club meets every Tuesday afternoon in the secondary campus Science Makerspace. Using only 10 jube-jubes and 20 toothpicks, Year 5 and 6 STEM enthusiasts built a prototype platform designed to support a book. After initial testing, students modified their prototype and we tested them again! Success was sweet!

Preservice teacher testing a prototype

Winner of platform build, Tayla Koetser.

Autumn Concert

On Wednesday 31 May, Carramar secondary music students delivered an inspiring performance at the Autumn Music Concert! A collection of ensembles presented a variety of styles ranging from Beethoven to Lois Armstrong. All in attendance agreed that the evening was a wonderful celebration of the achievements of our dedicated students and staff. Congratulations to our Percussion Ensemble for their debut performance!

“What a beautiful, upbeat and uplifting evening. Congratulations on the set, lighting, and of course, the performances. Wonderful to see so many students excelling in their music.” Liz Kirby

“It was beautiful! Congratulations to all the wonderful teachers, musicians and singers and faithful alumni! Hard work, passion and team work always pay off and bring an everlasting SMILE :)” Emel Cobanlar

Photo credits: Callum Smith, Year 11

UCW Winter Appeal – update

Thank you to the students and their families for the generous donations that will help members of both our local community and the inner city regions.

Each of the three Year 7 homerooms have worked together to collect items suitable for the Winter Appeal. In the table below is a sample of the sorts of donations that are required.

Carramar Year 7’s standing with the recent collections from their homerooms for the Salvation Army.