It has been a busy winter term on the sports field with interschool matches played against St Andrews, Loreto and John XXIII leading up to the main event, the IPSHA Winter Carnival, on Thursday 17 June where our Carmel Primary students competed against teams from 14 other schools, hosted by John XXIII College. Carmel netball, footie and soccer teams each played six games. Our n ...

The Primary School will be celebrating Book Week next term. In the leadup to this event we read the books that have been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia 2021 Award:  Busy Beaks by Sarah Allen  Who's Your Real Mum? By Bernadette Green  No! Never! By Libby Hathorn & Lisa Hathorn-Jarman There's No Such Thing by Heidi McKinnon  We Love You, Magoo by ...

Massive congratulations to Year 6 student Meisha D for placing second in the State Gymnastics finals over the weekend of 12 and 13 June. We wish her every success at the next round of competition in Queensland.    ...

Mazal Tov to the Carmel School Chess team who came second in the final School Chess League tournament held at Nedlands Primary School on Sunday. Team members included our talented Year 4 students, Mia C, Oz C, Marcus V and Ezra L, who played incredibly well to bring Carmel yet another excellent placement!    The Carmel team will play in the finals in August for the WA State Ch ...

Have you bought your tickets to our Carmel Fundraising Premiere of Chasing Wonders yet? It's produced by Carmel alumnus Hilton Nathanson and his wife Louise, features a fabulous cast, including Jessica Marais (of Packed to the Rafters fame), and is written by the acclaimed actress, writer and director Judy Morris, who not only co-wrote HAPPY FEET but wrote the multi-award-winni ...

Betay’avon! Our Year 5s enjoyed a delicious breakfast on Friday 18 June as a fun ending to their Hebrew unit about food. The students politely requested their food in Hebrew, using all their new vocabulary and they were served by their teachers and Israeli bachurim. While the Israeli music played, everyone sat at beautifully set tables and enjoyed their meal with their friend ...

In Week 10, our Year 7s set off on a four-day camp with Mr Quelch, Morah Gunders-Hunt, Mr Lavi, the Tzevet and OKC Hadassa Solomon, marking the end of the Semester 1 weekly Bar and Bat Mitzvah classes. The students faced challenging conditions, including cold weather, and made the absolute best of it. They started off with orienteering and a hike. At the campsite they learned ...

The Year 4 students successfully completed a unit of work from the Torah program this term. At their siyum, they played bingo, matching and sequencing games using words they had studied and enjoyed some delicious treats. Kol hakavod, Year 4 students!  ...

Last week, JNF Future WA, the young adult division of JNF Australia hosted an important event with Neil Lazarus, an internationally acclaimed expert in the field of the Middle East, Israel advocacy and effective communication training at Carmel’s Entrepreneur Space. At a time when the world has become vocally more anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, the interactive webinar was the id ...

Yerush! Mazal Tov to Yerushalayim House for skilfully taking out the competition and pipping Teveria to the post in the much-awaited four-week annual House Cultural Competition. Be’er Sheva took out third place just ahead of Zfat. After a break in 2020 due to COVID-19, some of the debating skills needed a bit of dusting off in the early rounds but the finals showcased some exce ...