Every year I take the time to meet with our Year 12 students before they finish their time at Carmel鈥 hopefully they never say farewell to their Carmel family. I ask them to reflect on their years at the School; the highlights and lowlights of their Carmel experience. The students tell me about the teachers who have made a positive impact on their educational journeys and we di ...

This term, I had the privilege of hearing our Year 6 public speaking finalists and the听subsequent听agony of having to choose just听three听to represent Carmel at the interschool speaking challenge at Scotch College.听 The calibre of speeches, both in their content and delivery,听was simply mind-blowing. The students researched their topics,听learnt their speeches by heart so听that eve ...

国标麻豆视频APP is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Julie Harris as the new Principal, commencing in January 2022. This appointment follows an extensive search resulting in a very strong field of candidates from many of the leading independent schools in WA and Australia. Dr Harris will take over this leadership role from Mrs Shula Lazar, who has ably led the School for ...

Over Shavuot, I had the opportunity to visit my family in Melbourne. As always, there was much talk about schools; which Jewish school was doing best at what, which Jewish school was best aligned to individual needs and religious outlook. It鈥檚 a conversation I grew up with but not being in Melbourne for an extended period meant I heard it with fresh ears.听听 To some in Perth, t ...

One of the things schools always ponder, and need to respond to, is bullying. It is an expectation (but not an acceptable one) that when you put a group of young people together all day for many weeks of the year while they are dealing with major life changes like puberty, unkind behaviour will occur. Recently, there have been questions raised regarding how we here at Carmel ex ...

One of the best parts of my job is interviewing students after their Bar or Bat Mitzvah, which is then written up and put on our Facebook feed and added right here, to Kesher. The students come to my office for a chat and I talk with them about what they enjoyed most about their special day, what hobbies and interests they have, an achievement they are most proud of and what t ...

In all lines of work, there are some days that are better than others. For me, some days are听good听and others are even better than good.听 Last Friday was one of those 鈥榖etter than good鈥 days.听 It began with a preview of our School Musical in the Sylvia and Harry Hoffman Primary School Hall. Our High School students, who have been working tirelessly every Sunday since mid-last ...

As our students stood to sing the Australian anthem on the first (on campus) day of school, they sang the recently amended lyrics 鈥渨e are 鈥榦ne and free.鈥欌 This change of words away from 鈥榶oung and free鈥 was made to recognise that Australia did not magically begin in 1788 when the white man landed in Botany Bay, but rather we are a country that has been inhabited for 65,000 year ...

We were very much looking forward to welcoming your children back to school tomorrow and we are sorry to have to wait another week until normal school commences. The Premier announced that all schools are closed until Monday 8 February and that school holidays have been extended. However, we are committed to providing students with some learning resources for the coming week. ...