On Friday 23 JulyÌýour High School students and parents attended our Semester 1 Academic ÌýAssembly. Guest speaker Mr Simon Millman MP spoke about the initiative "Everyday I'm Shuffling" which promotes movement and the 'healthy body healthy mind' concept. Mr Millman kindly donated some prizes to the project. Kol hakavod to our academic merit and excellence award winners as well ...

Mazal Tov to our Year 10 art students! Inspired by Melburnian artist Howard Arkley (known for his airbrushed paintings of houses, architecture and suburbia) our Year 10s have been creating superb works of art. Thanks to High School art teacher Morah Leanne for her guidance (and for sharing these vibrant works of art) and to students Josie, Max, Christine, Alexa and Rori whose w ...

On Friday 13 August, our Year 4s put on a meaningful, fun and well-rehearsed presentation of dance and song with the serious undertone of explaining the value of being a mensch. They showed us how doing good deeds has such a transformative effect on us and those around us. Morah Benn talked beautifully about this, then drew this assembly’s mensch from a hat full of names: it ...

Book Week 2021 was colossal at Carmel.Ìý All year groups adored completing daily book week quizzes and the teacher ‘Guess Who’ quiz wasÌýa particular hit. On Tuesday, the upper primary students had a fabulous presentation by local author Cristy Burne, who spoke about taking normal events then adding some ridiculous or disgusting twistsÌýto make an exciting story. Cristy, a scienti ...

Our Year 6s madeÌýlifelong memories at camp in Week 3 and had wonderful stories to tell their families. Mrs Bolton said she witnessed many occasions of peer to peer support.ÌýThanks to our Carmel staff members for all the hard work they’ve put into running the camp and to our Year 11s for providing such wonderful and meaningful support ...

After a beautiful renovation of the Carmel Primary School Library we had an excess of good quality books which we donated to Challis Community Primary School in Armadale. During Book Week, these books will be distributed to less fortunate children to enjoy. ...

Even with the tumultuous weather, we had a wonderful time at our Peek and Picnic open morning on Sunday 1 August. Our new Board President, Mr Mark Majzner, greeted everyone and introduced our 2022 Principal, Dr Julie Harris, before new and existing families chatted, played and enjoyed the morning. Our future Kindies and Preps explored and learnt about their new environments whi ...

The Year 3s and their Kindy buddies are so excited about designing toys they're going to make. Their creativity flowed in Week 2 as they drew their designs and created a shopping list for the teachers to gather materials ready for the construction phase! ...

On Tuesday 27 July the Year 1 children were privileged to have Abigail’s granny visit us. Dr Carmel came to talk to us about how we can keep fit and healthy and told us that she looks after some of the athletes who participated at the Olympics. She told us that we need to eat a healthy diet and exercise. Exercise also helps us when we are feeling upset. We need to remember to ...

At the Year 3 Assembly on Friday 23 July, our 3s celebrated NAIDOC Week through song and verbal tributes. What an incredible performance - Morah Benn gave them an A-plus! We then watched as another amazing coincidence took place when Shoham L drew her own name out of a sparkly hat holding many names to win the mensch medal. We wished Morah Ester and her family well as they tr ...