Carmel High School welcomed Mrs Rivka Majteles in Week 6 to tell the incredible story of her survival of the Shoah to our Year 10 cohort. The students, who have spent the past semester learning about the Holocaust, were attentive and engaged throughout her talk and posed sensitive and thoughtful questions to Mrs Majteles afterwards. We were privileged to have heard her story fi ...

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Finally, the camp we had all been waiting for arrived - Machane Zooz 2021! The theme for our weekend at Advent Park camp was all about exploring Zionism and our roots. We had guest speakers, group games and even a night time obstacle course. We enjoyed our first full shabbat together as a cohort out in nature with some delicious food (thank you, kitchen crew!) and Friday night was a blast...

At a very special Founders Assembly today (log in to Facebook to see more photos of this event), we paid tribute to our Carmel Founders – incredible men and women who have put their time, money, vision and efforts into making 69É«ÇéƬ a beacon of the Perth Jewish community for the past 62 years. We particularly honoured the Levitt family for their tremendous support over ...

As I write, we have just concluded the festival of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The time in Shule (synagogue) was wonderful, uplifting, joyous and reflective. As I pondered the year that was and thought ahead to the year that will be, I also took stock of all that I am grateful for. When I think of the one thing that has had the greatest, most positive impact on my lif ...

I have been using the first few months of my role as Board President to meet as many of our School and Jewish community members as possible. Attending the Peek & Picnic with 2022's Kindy families and meeting the parents of next year's Year 7s and all the teachers, have been amongst some of the highlights.Ìý Every Jewish child learns to say the Shema prayer - a prayer we say ...

The spirit of community, community service and giving to others is recognised at this time of the Jewish year. On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we make resolutions to do more in our lives - and especially in our Jewish lives. It's fitting that at the Assembly on Thursday 9 September, Colours and Honours were presented across Jewish Life and Learning, Cultural and Sport facultie ...

Talented footballer Jacob Muir played for the Perth Glory Senior Academy team when still in Year 12. He's continued to go from strength to strength, playing football/soccer against academy teams in England and Europe whilst studying and fielding multiple American scholarship offers.ÌýJacob found time to chat to us about the road travelled since leaving Carmel. Two years on, how ...

We were delighted to catch up with Gina Steinberg (DorotÌý Carmel 2016) recently to get an update on life since winning her scholarship. Straight after school, you embarked on a ‘shnattie’ gap year in Israel. Of your experiences there, was there something in particular that you feel altered the course of your life or left a lasting impression on you? Taking a year off before s ...

Friday 3 September saw the oval transformed into a hive of activity as the High School Athletics Carnival took place.ÌýSee below for our list of Athletics Carnival winners, runners up and House placings.

On Monday 9 August the Year 10 entrepreneurship students had the absolute pleasure of meeting the founder of Kanopy, Olivia Humphrey. ÌýOlivia's global streaming empire started in 2008 with a bold idea, a spare room at the front of her partner’s house and a copy ofÌýStarting a Business For DummiesÌýborrowed from Scarborough Library. Her business was known as the art-house and indi ...