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Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
Celebrating the New Year on 1 January is a relatively new and Western phenomenon, but the tradition of celebrating New Year dates back thousands of years. The earliest recording of a...
06 February 2020Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
What are the traditions and rituals your family celebrate leading up to Christmas? Is there a ceremony surrounding the choosing of the tree, or putting up the decorations? Is one person responsible for...
05 December 2019
Connectedness at Carey
A message from the Deputy Head of Senior School.
With a four year old and two year old, life at home is not only frenetic, but at times, quite exciting. As Halloween approached...
Chaplain’s Corner – Senior School
The research is clear: When we spend time immersed in the beauty of nature our souls are nourished. The research is also clear that not enough people (children included) spend time in...
21 November 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Carey Donvale
At the risk of sounding like Myer by introducing Christmas way too early, I have started to teach the Christmas story in CARE classes these past days. I promise you, I haven’t put up my Christmas...
21 November 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Senior School
I love my job here at Carey, but I also enjoy the Sunday night of a long weekend – especially the Sunday night of the Melbourne Cup weekend. Four days to connect with family and friends...
07 November 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
A couple of weeks ago I had the joy of spending a few days in a beautiful part of the world, Toonallook, with a Year 5 class. How blessed we are to have the opportunity to spend many...
07 November 2019
The final moments of school
A message from the Deputy Head of Senior School.
3.10pm last Friday was energetically greeted with widespread cheering by our Year 12 students. This came as they watched...
Chaplain’s Corner – Senior School
A couple of weeks ago, there was a report in the news that a five-year-old boy had been subjected to dreadful racist comments by other children in his Prep class. How could this be? Does it come...
24 October 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
Imagine that I have a balloon in my hand and I want to try and make my balloon bigger. Can I do that by popping my friend’s balloon? Does that make my balloon get bigger? No!
24 October 2019