Making the most of our PK – 12 model, T4 and T5 Homerooms recently spent time at the ELC as part of their Service Learning. The ‘big kids’ talked about their recent trip to South Africa and even taught the ELC a new South African song! Students then spent time playing, dressing up and reading, giving the ELC students an opportunity to show off their work.
Year 10 students rounded out Term 2 with a week of work experience, learning about the world of work first hand. Students were introduced to various roles including physios, vets, engineers, electricians and chefs, just to name a few. Thank you to the employers who provided a placement for our students and ensured they had both meaningful work and interesting insights into the workplace.
During the holidays a group of our musicians travelled to China to rehearse and perform in “Tutti Festiva”. http://www.tuttibeijing.com/ They spent hours honing their own music skills in masterclasses as well as performing in festival honour groups with students from other Australian and Chinese schools. The festival was held at Kaiwen Academy – a new K-12 school built to educate 2000 students…as well as amazing Performing Arts facilities it also has an ice hockey rink… http://cy.kaiwenacademy.cn/en/
Educationally, this tour was an incredible opportunity for our musicians to reach the next level with their musicianship. The Tutti faculty included professional musicians working at elite levels as professors, conductors, composers and performers in Northern American, Chinese and Australian universities.
As well as creating lifelong memories such as performing on “The Great Wall of China” and listening to Beijing Opera and other musical performances from the faculty, our students, staff and school contributed to “The Dandelion Project”. This charity funds the education costs (including music) for the children of migrant workers as they are ineligible to access an education in Chinese schools. Overall, we were part of a $13500 donation!
Andre and I loved taking these wonderful musicians away to China. They were superb ambassadors for St Stephen’s School. We are very proud of what they achieved and we are excited to see how their experiences will feed back into the Music program. We would also like to acknowledge the wonderful work of Don Candy, who prepared the Classical guitars so well for the tour.
Please enjoy these photos:)
Three of our senior students have been selected to feature their artwork in the prestigious 2019 St George’s Art Exhibition. Be sure to visit St George’s Cathedral to see their stunning work on display before the exhibition closes on Sunday!
Congratulations to:
Will Boutle Year 11
Tascha Cox Year 11
Olivia Roberts Year 12
Hard work has paid off this holidays for Logan McCormick (Year 10) who has won two gold medals for Australia in the Oceania Sailing Championships! Logan won an individual gold and team gold for kiteboarding in the competition which runs as part of the Pacific Games in Samoa.
Go Logan!
Rounding off a successful semester, our debating students brought their A-game to the stage in the Rookie Debating Grand Final last term. In a cross-campus battle, Duncraig were victorious while Carramar’s Luke Shirdon took out the Best Speaker award. Congratulations on an awesome debating season!
As we look towards the school holidays, we bid farewell to two tour groups taking the world by storm! The Indonesian Service Tour leaves to host cultural lessons, teach English and take part in activities with students and families from the Bali Life Foundation’s school for underprivileged kids.
Meanwhile, the International Music Tour sees a cross-campus group of Secondary students travel to Beijing, China for the Tutti World Youth Music Festival. Students will take part in rehearsals, masterclasses, concerts, sightseeing and will even perform on the Great Wall of China!
You would be forgiven for mistaking our two new staff members for each other – two adorable black Labrador reading dogs.
While they look the same and have the same job at each campus, the coincidence is even more exciting when you find out these black Labradors are both named Tucker and became reading dogs at St Stephen’s School this year within months of each other!
Read more about our reading dog program held at both Carramar and Duncraig in the Joondalup Times.
https://www.communitynews.com.au/joondalup-times/news/dogs-give-double-the-reading-support/
With the Interschool winter sports season in full swing, the Senior Boys Hockey Team recently travelled to the UWA Sports Park to complete in the ACC Hockey Carnival. The boys won three and lost two games and were commended for their tireless efforts on the day.
Well done everyone!
