Q: What’s rarer than a Tassie Tiger? A: An available Primary School parking at drop-off and pick-up time! Unless you’re one of the three lucky winners of the Carmel P&F biannual car park raffle, that is. These fortunate folk, aka ‘the car space deity’, have exclusive use of their parking spaces at school drop off and pick up times for Terms 1 and 2 of this year. Now that Te ...

Primary School, Secondary School, Parents News

The Carmel Careers Expo was held last Wednesday evening for Years 10 to 12 students and their parents. There was lots of animated discussion between our students and the Future Student Teams from WA’s leading universities, TAFE, and the Defence Force and the students gained valuable information about the various courses on offer, as well as entry requirements. There are so many ...

Secondary School

In Week 3 our Year 9s had the privilege of learning financial life lessons with Steve Kerbel from South City Brokers. Having just completed a unit on calculating simple interest, Steve showed the students how the magic of compound interest could allow them to retire with $8,000,000 in the bank without having to save a cent after the age of 30! Thanks so much for giving your tim ...

Secondary School

The Year 8 Visual Arts students were fortunate to view the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Cottesloe Beach in Week 5.  They meandered through all the wonderful sculptures learning about the considerations artists need to contemplate when creating outdoor sculptures, like materials that can withstand the outdoor elements.  One of the most impressive sculptures was a giant wa ...

Secondary School, Arts

The Year 8s were visited by Jo Watkins, a WA Coordinator of Australian Earth Science Education on Wednesday 3 March. A specialist geologist, she provided a hands-on talk to our students about how to classify rocks and provided some interesting facts about the West Australian geo-landscape which has one of the oldest crusts in the world!  ...

Secondary School, Science and Technology

The cast of the Addams Family visited excited Primary School students on Friday 5 March to perform a number from Carmel High School's upcoming musical.  Log in to Facebook to see a snippet of their performance. There are still tickets available for the show on 21, 22 and 23 March. Go online now to secure yours at bit.ly/carmelmusical2021  THE ADDAMS FAMILY  School Edition Th ...

Secondary School, Musical

What a wonderful day we had celebrating Purim as the High school was transformed into the magical world of Toy Story. Students and teachers alike dressed up and immersed themselves in the festivity and fun.  Rabbi Dan read the Megillah, mishloach manot were exchanged, and matanot la’evyonim were collected and distributed to Menora Charity. Hamantachen were savoured and the Yea ...

Jewish Studies, Secondary School

Purim craziness and fun started early on the morning of Friday 26 February at Carmel Primary as various characters trooped through the gate: Mr Rubik's Cube, countless fairies, Clark Kent (with a hint of Superman peeping underneath his work shirt) the M&M ladies, even Albert Einstein made an appearance, alongside many others! Kindy through to Year 6 characters were excitedl ...

Primary School, Jewish Studies

It’s a wonder how Gemma manages to fit in all she does. What with swimming and learning five different types of dance, Gemma is happily busy every day of the week.  Gemma celebrated her Bat Mitzvah at Noranda Shule, delivering an insightful D’var Torah about the need to learn from mistakes. She is enjoying Carmel High School, especially HASS with ‘Rasto’ and thought Purim was ...

Secondary School, Bar and Bat Mitzvah News, Jewish Studies

By Mr Tom Spurling  On the morning of Thursday 4 March, Carmel School made the trip to Warwick Stadium to compete in the ACC Senior Basketball Championships. We took ten Year 10-12 boys keen to bring home the trophy but, alas, the team fell narrowly short in a high-level tournament. After easily accounting for Edmund Rice College in the opening round - brilliant captain Raf C ...

Secondary School, Sports