Dear Parents

As many of you know, one of the key drivers for our school is service. One such area of service our school is most fortunate to provide is our overseas service learning program. This program enables our students the chance to serve, learn and experience other countries in a way they would never be able to do anywhere else.

One such opportunity is our service learning program in Cambodia. This program is only possible through the work of an organisation called RAW Impact.  This organisation is powered primarily through volunteers and its regular source of funding comes mostly from generous donations and school trips, like ours. This year due to the COVID crisis and no international travel, it has been a very tough year for RAW, financially.  Our ability to provide this specific service learning opportunity to our students depends totally on the survival of this organisation. We need to ensure that this organisation can survive through the next 12 months.

I have attached a link to a video put together by its founder and director, Troy Roberts, which explains a little of their current state and how they plan to dig in and continue to make an impact during this time.  Please feel free to take a few minutes to watch the video and maybe peruse their website.

https://sidekick.rawimpact.org/

I have also placed a link below, to enable our Schools parents, friends and other families to donate directly to RAW Impact and encourage RAW that we are behind them. Please have a look at what they do and the opportunity that our students will get when their time comes to apply to go to Cambodia. It is an amazing and powerful overseas tour which students have found to be utterly life changing.

Together we can still drive powerful change and support this wonderful organisation and make sure they are still around for our students for many years to come.  To show your support, simply click the link below, make any amount of donation to the St Stephens Duncraig Team page and it will go directly to RAW Impacts Sidekick Project being run in late November.

https://thesidekickproject.raisely.com/t/ststephensschoolduncraig

Thank you for your support and continued investment into our students development.

Charles Biddle

Head of Learning Area – Science

Congratulations to Aaron Bright (Year 12) who graduated with the Motivation Foundation at a ceremony last Friday. Trained in Civil Construction, Aaron has secured a position with Ertech which could see him travel to Barrow Island as a FIFO worker. All the best, Aaron!

This summer WAAPA is thrilled to be able to offer an exciting school holiday program at our campus in Mount Lawley. There are classes for students from Year 1 to Year 12 in drama, acting, screen performance, film making, music theatre and of course Shakespeare. For information about the many courses on offer please visit waapa.ecu.edu.au/summer-school or contact Gabrielle Metcalf at explore.waapa@ecu.edu.au or 9370 6775.

Good morning,

This is to let you know that the November Careers Newsletter is on the home page of our school careers website. In it you will find information about opportunities to attend a Mining Camp in January 2021 for girls interested in engineering or mining, a range of information evenings hosted by our local universities, apprenticeship opportunities with Hofmann Engineering plus a whole lot more!

Please click on the link below to access our Careers Website and take the time to read the newsletter. For our students in Years 11 and 12 I encourage you to use the upcoming holidays to explore the information on this website too. There is some really valuable information there that could help you decide your next step or future pathway!

www.ststephenscareersduncraig.com

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me
Kind Regards
Sarah Cooke
9243 2154

St Stephen’s School has partnered with Good Sammy, who is an official collection organisation for the Containers for Change launched on October 1 this year.

Please collect eligible containers and help provide meaningful employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Our bins are located at:

Early Learning Centre – entrance to Reception

Duncraig Primary – entrance to Reception

Carramar Primary – entrance to Reception and near the Nurses office

Our campus is currently bursting with colour and creativity after the Synthesis Exhibition was officially opened last night! Congratulations to our Art, Design and Technologies students for another year of dedication to their craft.

The Exhibition will be open to the public until October 28.

Here are some pictures of the Y10 mentors working with the Y7s.

Their aim was to build positive relationships and help ease the transition for Y7s into the larger House groups next year.

They had a lot of fun getting to know one another, playing games, having a

treasure hunt and exploring their new house.

The Y10s cannot wait for their Y7s to join them in the big house!

Nicola Ross

Teacher – Science/Assistant Dean Timae

Year 7 students soaked up the sunshine when they visited Elizabeth Quay last term to conduct their first Geography Field Trip. Students made observations of the different precincts to assess the liveability of the development.

Be sure to pop down to the City of Joondalup’s Little Feet Festival this Sunday to experience the St Stephen’s School Exploration Station!

The Little Feet Festival is ready to launch at

This hands-on workshop gives your little space engineer a chance to build their own robots to explore planets in a far-off galaxy. For more info, visit https://bit.ly/2H0cUxl