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NORTHERN EXPOSURE

October 14, 2019

St Stephen’s Global will be launching the 2020 Lou Morrison Kimberley Tour for current Year 8s and 9s in the next few weeks. This is an extraordinary opportunity for our students to spend time with indigenous students in our partner schools – Yiyili and Purnululu Aboriginal Schools in the East Kimberley. Students will learn about Australian indigenous culture in rarely-accessed traditional lands. The group will also have the opportunity to experience some of the amazing beauty of the rugged Kimberley region as they travel from Broome to Kununurra. The tour will run in July 2020.

Parents and students will be invited at attend Information Evenings at both campuses in late October and expressions of interest will close soon after. Email mark.fielding@ststephens.wa.edu.au to register your interest now.

China Music Tour

July 29, 2019

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:)

Mrs Andrea Stimpson – Director of Music
Mr Andre Bourgault – Music Teacher

BON VOYAGE

July 5, 2019

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!

Bunnings Training Day Success!

March 17, 2018

Well done to everyone for completing the Bunnings Day Training Session! Remember how to use the tools and skills you learned because they’ll come in handy when we are in South Africa.

  • Power drill (wood and masonry)
  • Torque wrench (screws, nuts and bolts)
  • Saws (jigsaw and hand saw)
  • Painting (rolling and brushing around trim)
  • Liquid Nails
  • Paving (measuring, levelling, cutting and laying)
  • Bricklaying (making ‘mud’ to keep bricks together and pavers from shifting)

A special ‘Thank you’ goes to Belinda and her team of professionals at the Joondalup Bunnings for hosting this very important training session. Not only did they provide you with the necessary skills and safety training you need while we’re on tour, but they also donated a lot of sports equipment for the children we will be visiting in South Africa.

Mr. C. Osborne

Lunch in the Sun

November 14, 2017

The smell was so appetizing and heralded the Cambodia fund raising sausage sizzle. Ms Shanks and Mrs Libbis had a merry band of helpers for the event. Such was the demand for a sausage and a cold drink in the beautiful weather Ms Shanks agreed to an IOU system.

Well done to all!

 

St Stephens meets the Governor General of Australia

October 31, 2017

A wonderful time was had by all on the recent HASS Canberra Tour.  This tour was made possible due to the funding and support of the Australian government.  The financial support provided through the PACER contribution alleviated financial stress and allowed more students to participate in this excellent learning experience.

Students were privileged to have a personal meeting with the Governor General of Australia, His Excellency, the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove.  Immediately after, Sean MacMillian played a beautiful piece of music in the Drawing Room. Recent guests to this room include former President, Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II.  Our students then lost themselves in the Australian War Memorial and followed this with a visit to New and Old Parliaments. Other Canberra highlights included CSIRO, Anzac Walk, Mount Ainslie, Australian Institute of Sport and Questacon.

Students then travelled to Melbourne and after a night walk in central Melbourne and Federation Square, woke up early to visit the Islamic Museum.  Students were given the opportunity to see the contributions of the Islamic community and were interested to find Muslims have been in Australia before Federation (1.1.1901).  Students asked engaging questions which dispelled many myths they had about the Muslim community.  Students then went to the Melbourne Gaol to experience the grim history of the colonial prison system.  Students were then impressed by the lights of Melbourne via the Eureka Skydeck.  Our second last day involved a visit to Sovereign Hill where students saw gold poured and went down an old mine.  They were also excited to see see the original Eureka Stockade Flag.  We ended our trip with a tour to the MCG and shopping at the Victorian Markets.

Verity Palmer and Matt English both agreed that they felt privileged to be involved on this tour and enjoyed themselves due to the excellent behaviour of our students. The students were joyous, courteous and an excellent representation of St Stephens. I hope parents and the school are as proud of their behaviour and care shown to each other on this trip as I was.

Leeanne Shanks

Humanities and Social Sciences

“The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.” – Proverbs 18:15

ST STEPHEN’S GLOBAL INDONESIAN TOUR

September 11, 2017

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

St Stephen’s School would like to announce its inaugural Indonesia: Bali Life Foundation Service Tour 2018 open to students currently studying in Years 9 and 10 (Years 10 and 11 2018). Bali Life Foundation is a small charity based in Jimbaran, Bali where they care for and educate young disadvantaged children and youth.

Our students will engage in volunteer work at the orphanage as well as the Bali Life support services within the locality of central and southwest Bali. These services include Suwung Community School, Bali Life Sustainable Community Garden, Kuta Street Kids and Mothers Program, and the Training and Education Community Centre.

The tour will consist of 16 students and 3 staff from across both campuses and will be departing 17 April, returning 24 April, 2018 (first week of the April holidays). The approximate cost of the tour will be $1200.

We will be seeking expressions of interest from students in October 2017.

Regards

Mr Stephen Meagher, Deputy Head of Care

Ms Donna Lund, Coordinator of Service Learning

Abrolhos Tour Geraldton

May 2, 2017

The students are having a wonderful time and have been doing really well to complete their practical skills in confined water before we hit the big blue tomorrow.

We really impressed with them all!

Lauren and Maddy instantly loved breathing through their regulators even though they were still on land!

The HMAS Sydney Memorial was really interesting to visit before we watched the full story in 3D at the maritime museum today. Also made a nice spot for the sunset.

All students did a great job smashing through a lot of practical work in the pool today – it’s exhausting stuff and they will be asleep early tonight!

Fingers crossed the weather doesn’t change over night – we are optimistic there’ll be a lot less vomit on our next crossing!

South African Service Tour 2017

March 19, 2017

The South Africa Service Tour departs on the 28th of March – we ask for your prayers as our students and staff endeavour to complete some fantastic work in disadvantaged communities.

On Saturday our students raised $1454 at a Joondalup Bunnings sausage sizzle – we are really proud of their efforts.

This combines with the $750 that each student has raised as part of their tour commitment.

Our aim is to build a laundry facility at Jehova Jireh Haven out of a reconstructed shipping container.

Much of the structural work has already been completed in South Africa and our students will add the finishing touches such as painting the outside, plumbing the washing machines, paving the outside and setting up washing lines.

The Haven has previously hand washed the laundry for over 140 children. The container laundry facility will hopefully be a massive blessing to their lives.

The students are also building a giant jungle gym that will cater for the children at the haven – we will certainly post pictures of their efforts. If last year’s netball courts are anything to go by then we aim to surprise everyone with a giant jungle gym set up.

“We rise by lifting others.” – Robert Ingersoll

Year 7 Tour Morning

November 28, 2016

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‘Getting to Know You Day’ for our Year 7 students was held at the Duncraig campus on 11 November, 2016. Students enjoyed time together playing games and getting to know each other in their new Homerooms with their Homeroom teachers. Lots of fun was had by all.

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