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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
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 – 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
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
Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
Over the past week I have had the enormous pleasure of spending time with the staff and students visiting us from Robinson River in the Northern Territory. For the past few years I have travelled...
05 September 2019Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
Over the past few weeks in CARE classes we have been discussing the issues of social justice. One fact that has really struck a chord with us is the realisation that right now the plastic...
22 August 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Carey Donvale
At Carey Donvale we support a young girl through International Needs. Her name is Mwajuma Nafuuma, she is 11 years old and she lives in the south of Uganda. Mwajuma lives with her mother...
08 August 2019Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
I love Term 3. It is a busy term in my Chaplaincy life – but an exciting one, as the CARE lessons, assemblies and chapel services focus on Social Justice. According to Wikipedia...
25 July 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
I have just returned from our annual visit to Robinson River in the Northern Territory. It brings me a lot of joy to be able to introduce some of my Carey friends to my beautiful friends in the Robinson...
20 June 2019