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We’re back – well almost!
It will certainly be a delight to welcome our Year 7 students back to music classes next week, and then the Year 8s and 9s a couple of weeks later. I am sure they are looking forward to getting out of...
08 October 2020
Learning happens everywhere
A message from the Deputy Head of Middle School.
Congratulations to all Middle School families. You will forever be in the Carey records for being the first ever community...
Performing Arts in the COVID Era
This has certainly been a remarkable year! I think the word of the year is ‘unprecedented’, which can be heard all too frequently in the media. Term 3 has been a very challenging time in the...
10 September 2020
Where IS the Green Sheep?
A message from the Deputy Head of Middle School.
I recently stumbled upon a video on Facebook that an Australian man, Ian Nash-Gilchrist, and his son, Jasper, had recorded of...
We Are Still Learning!
Our music rooms at Carey may be empty, but there is still a whole heap of great musical development taking place. Sure, the Stage 4 restrictions have taken away our wonderful bands...
20 August 2020
Optimism
A message from the Head of Middle School.
‘Optimism is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. When you want to build a muscle, you’ve got to keep using it’ - Robin Roberts
Anyone Can Write a Song
What does it take to write a good song? This is an interesting question! To me it’s very similar to asking what is needed to write a good story. Our Year 8 and 9 Music electives focus on...
23 July 2020
Open for business
A message from the Deputy Head of Middle School.
It is fabulous to see Middle School students back on campus! While we have been very impressed with the way most students...
Embracing Indigenous history through music
Since European settlement, much of Australia’s history, from the colonial perspective, has been very accessible through diaries, first-hand accounts of events as well as ballads and folk songs...
18 June 2020
Seek out micro-lifts and stay connected
A message from the Deputy Head of Middle School.
It was Mother’s Day just over a week ago and it was, like so many other days, markedly different to ‘normal’. However, it was...