School is all about boundaries. In fact I am so old that I have realised that life is actually all about boundaries. I am regularly amused when students leave school at the end of Year 12 and return, some months later, to report that they are surprised that there are actually more rules and boundaries and restrictions in their subsequent places of work or study than they ever e ...

From the Principal

One of the lovely things about arriving at a new school is that you slowly start to find out about the many and varied opportunities available to the lucky students in your care. Some of these opportunities are well publicised and everybody knows about them; others are less obvious. For example, our entrepreneurship program is well-known in the education community; I learnt al ...

We often comment on the wording of our school song and note those things that “make Carmel School so special”. Our 2021 graduates together with many other Dorot Carmel, took this to the next level last Tuesday night at Perth Airport. More than a dozen of our finest youngsters were off to join several other of their friends who left recently to Israel on Bnei and Habo Shnat and ...

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“Hate is a very strong word, Dr Harris”, commented one of my Year 3 students last year as I looked out of my Science lab window and muttered that I hated the rain.  Had he spent years suffering from the misery of constant Welsh rainfall, he would doubtless have been more empathetic and understanding.  Nevertheless, he was right – hate is a very strong word.  But there have bee ...

“So what does a Principal actually do?”, I was asked in December, by a friend who does not work in a school. I replied that a Principal does a huge variety of things and I even tentatively named a few of those tasks, but my response was evidently deemed unsatisfactory and I ended up having to assure them that I would let them know when I’d started my new job.  It’s now February ...

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