Every year JNF is grateful for Carmel’s High School students who assist with the Green Sunday telethon. This year was no different as students from years 7 – 12 gathered at the Jewish Centre to phone our community and help raise funds to plant thousands of security trees on kibbutzim near the Gaza border. After last year’s Gaza attack on Israel, this year’s Green Sunday appeal ...

Secondary School

Carmel School hosted its Entrepreneurship Mentor Day this week, where students from the School’s Entrepreneur Program were given the opportunity to interact with business professionals. The aim of these sessions was to connect students with relevant business mentors, who would assist on the development, expansion and fine-tuning of their business ideas. This year, Carmel welc ...

Academic, Secondary School

We recently caught up with OKC Sarah Marcuson, Dorot Carmel 2013. Sarah is enjoying much success, achieving her filmmaking dreams with her documentary A Holy Duty, now screening as part of the Jewish International Film Festival. What experience most sticks out in your mind from your Carmel School days? I think my favourite memory from Carmel was leading on Camp Kef. It was my ...

Humans of Carmel, Alumni

I met with Lyla this week to hear about her Bat Mitzvah celebrations.  Due to the PHC Shule renovations, Lyla held her Bat Mitzvah at the Breckler Troy Hall at Carmel School. Inspired by her name meaning ‘night’ in Hebrew, Lyla chose not to read a dvar torah, but to talk about what happens when you go to sleep and dream. She described to me the Jewish interpretation of dreams ...

Bar and Bat Mitzvah News, Jewish Studies, Primary School, From the Principal

I was very pleased to meet Kamali, the first bat mitzvah student I have had the opportunity to meet and chat to about their experience. As well as all the reading about Judaism that I have been enjoying, being able to talk to students about this special rite of passage was an excellent learning opportunity for me. I learnt about how Kamali will need to act in a slightly more ma ...

Bar and Bat Mitzvah News, Jewish Studies, Primary School, From the Principal

This year we warmly welcome Mrs Nicola Dunn to Carmel School as our new Head of Science.  With a teaching career spanning 27 years, Nicola brings a wealth of diverse experience and is excited to share her love of science with students and staff alike. Graduating with First-Class Honours in Chemistry from the University of Western Australia, Nicola started in scientific researc ...

Academic, Secondary School, Science and Technology

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 ...

Jewish Studies, Parents News, Alumni

“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 ...