Welcome back to all staff and students for the beginning of a busy Term Three.
Personally, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the whole community who have made my first official week at Carramar such a welcoming and positive experience. I look forward to the weeks and months ahead in which I will learn so much more about our school.
Whilst it has been only one week back for our students, our staff have been back for two. Our first week was filled with planning as well as professional and personal development during the days of our annual Staff Expo.
This week we have marked NAIDOC week in the Secondary school with a number of curriculum areas delivering lessons designed to celebrate and learn about those who were custodians of the land we live on for over 70 000 years. I acknowledge and give thanks here to Noongar elders, past present and emerging, for whom Lake Joondalup and it’s surrounds were a place of abundance and safety. It is a great privilege to lead a school that resides on that land, where no doubt many young people of the Noongar nation were educated in the stories and ways off their ancestors.
My thanks also to staff who have met with parents on two occasions for our reporting evenings. The last of these meetings occurs on Tuesday night, where we meet with our year 10 students and parents in the Collinson Library. These face to face discussions are so important, particularly for the Year 10’s who are making big decisions about the flavour and direction of coming years.
Thank you all once again and best wishes for Semester Two.
Bennet Andrews – Head of Campus
CONNECTING YOUNG READER’S
A group of Carramar Year 8 students will become some of Australia’s youngest book critics, as they join the Children’s Book Council of Australia‘s Sun Project: Shadow Judging. They will participate in safe, creative, critical conversations and shadow judge the CBCA Book of the Year shortlist as part of the nationwide youth project. This will culminate at the end of CBCA Book Week with the first-ever Shadowers’ Choice Awards.
HOUSE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
The 2022 House Athletics Carnival will be held on Friday 12 August. Parents are all welcome to attend.
SCIENCE LEARNING AREA
The Science Learning Area would like to thank the Popich family for their generous donation of a very nice microscope to our department. Year 12 student, Aaron, is studying Physics this year and was happy to give Mrs Kirby the run-through of the microscope.
Elizabeth Kirby
COVID-19
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