Category: Community

Book Donations

August 9, 2018

 

You may be an avid reader, but the dusty pile of books in your room is starting to be a nuisance. You don’t have the heart to throw your old books away, but you don’t have much of a use for them anymore.

We need book donations to run another successful book stall at the fete.

Please bring any books you have outgrown or no longer need to Student Services or Primary Office.  If it is easier, bring them to the shed in the bottom car park.

Shed will be open every Tuesday from Aug 14, at approx. 7.45am – 8.45am.

THANK YOU!

Hop, Skip & Jump

August 9, 2018

Excitement is building across our campuses as both Carramar Secondary and Duncraig Secondary prepare for their House Athletics Carnivals this Friday!

We hope you can join us to cheer on our students as they compete in track and field events.

 

The Karate Kid!

August 3, 2018

Year 10 student Casey Vlahos has recently travelled to Okinawa, Japan as part of the West Australian section of Go-Kan-Ryu karate! This gives Casey the opportunity to train with the highest karate practitioners in the world, some of the whom are descendants of the founders of traditional Okinawan karate.

Wow! Congratulations Casey.

Duncraig Spring Festival

August 3, 2018

St Stephen’s Duncraig Spring Festival

Saturday 27 October 2018 – 9am to 3pm

Call for Market Stallholders

We want to invite school families to join our upcoming fete later this year.

If you operate a business that is suited to community markets, we would love to hear from you. Interested stallholders should contact us by EMAIL with an initial EXPRESSION OF INTEREST by Friday 31 August 2018

Please provide the following information:

  • Business name
  • Products/Services provided
  • Contact person – Name/Email/Mobile
  • School Family Y/N

Please EMAIL this information to Janelle Charteris at jellmic@bigpond.net.au

Cost this year is:

  • A fee of $30 for school families ($50 non-school family) plus a donation of goods (or gift voucher) to the value of at least $50 for our Silent Auction.

Further information and registration details will be sent to those who respond by the due date.

Registration forms will be sent to any interested parties, and must be completed and returned by 31 August.

Late responses will still be considered, if space is still available.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you.

Janelle Charteris & Sarah Duncan – Market Stall Organisers Spring Festival 2018

 

Food Appeal

August 3, 2018

Dear Parents and Students,

Winter is here and we all know it can be a difficult time for those in our community that are experiencing homelessness or severe financial hardship. Once again St Stephen’s School will be supporting those who find themselves in this predicament.

Commencing Monday, 6th Aug and concluding Friday, 24th Aug we are collecting non-perishable food items to donate to UnitingCare West to distribute to those in need.

It would be greatly appreciated if all students could donate a minimum of one non-perishable food item each. Some examples are:

Pasta and pasta sauce

UHT milk

Biscuits

Tea/Coffee

Cereal

Canned vegetables/fish/meat

Secondary students will be directed to bring the items to their Houses, Primary and ELC students to their teachers.

We thank you in advance for your generosity, every little bit helps.

With regards

Donna Lund

Service Learning Coordinator

Duncraig and Carramar

Extend a Hand of Friendship

August 2, 2018

We are lucky to have exchange student Chloe joining us to study at St Stephen’s School for the next year! We have no doubt Chloe will enjoy exploring Perth after travelling all the way from Switzerland for this awesome experience.

Welcome to St Stephen’s, Chloe!

Welcome Back

July 31, 2018

Welcome back to Semester Two! I hope all our families had a good three weeks break. I have been here during the break, seeing and supporting the amazing work taking place in the Houses. I still cannot believe what was achieved in only three weeks. They are almost finished, and Carana and Timae look amazing, so I am sure Aletheans must be excited about what is going to be happening later in the year.

We start Semester Two with a few changes for study programs. Some students have a change in electives, plus would have had some great feedback from teachers at the Reporting Day and in SEQTA comments. In our first assembly for the year, I talked to the students about this being a great halfway point to assess goals, review goal setting with your Homeroom teachers, and find focus for Semester Two.  This could be as diverse as a focus on excellence, on goals, on class work, friendships, and final results at the end of the year.

The Year 12s have returned focused and ready for their final weeks of schooling. In assembly, I thanked the Year 12 students for their leadership of our school. Sometimes at this stage it can feel like you have been at school for ever, our senior students have been racing toward the finish line for so long and now it is almost here. My hope for them is to keep strong, and keep focused on their goals. We have shared a lot together and are here with all our students, and with our Year 12 cohort as they focus on the finishing line and we run the final part of this race together.

Dr Liz Criddle

Deputy Head of School