Carey Year 12 Student Selected for National Physics Team
Congratulations to Year 12 student Owen Yandell who has been selected to the Australian national team to compete in the international Online Young Physicists Tournament (OYPT). Owen performed outstandingly in the IYPT Australia Challenge and was then invited to the National Team, forming part of …
ACC Cross Country 2023
On Thursday 1 June, 36 of our fastest long-distance runners from the Secondary School participated in the annual ACC Cross Country at Perry Lakes Reserve. It was a fantastic day which saw a break from the rain with warm, sunny weather. Eighty-one schools from all …
Year 11 Outdoor Education Hike
Week 3 of Term 2 saw the Year 11 Outdoor Education students head down to the beautiful Southwest to engage in a self-sufficient hike in Walpole. Twenty-eight students and five staff took on the challenge of hiking 35km with everything they needed for the three-day …
Journey to Meekatharra: Carey Right Track Foundation
The Carey Right Track Foundation works to empower indigenous, rural and remote communities through athletics. Secondary Teacher Graeme Watson is the CEO of Carey Right Track. Together with a team of passionate volunteers, he’s been partnering with the Meekatharra community for over eight years to …
Generations in Jazz 2023
With much excitement, fifteen Carey music students and three staff members travelled to Mount Gambier in South Australia for the 34th annual Generations in Jazz festival on 4 May. It was the first in-person event since 2019 after it was cancelled because of the pandemic. …
Bright Minds Compete in da Vinci Decathlon Competition
Thirty-two of our Academic Excellence and GATE STEM students from Years 7 to 10 recently participated in the da Vinci Decathlon event at Winthrop Hall, UWA. The da Vinci Decathlon is an academic competition designed to challenge and stimulate the minds of school students. Students …
Bush School Kicks Off for 2023 at Carey Forrestdale
Today is Outdoor Classroom Day – a global movement to make time outdoors part of every child’s day. We’re blessed with a natural bush block at Carey Forrestdale that provides many opportunities for our students to connect the outdoors with the curriculum. Over the past …
Ayda a Finalist in the Lester Prize Youth Awards
The Lester Prize for Portraiture Youth Awards presentation was held on 27 April and it was a privilege to attend with Year 9 student Ayda Zhu and her family. Ayda was selected as a finalist for her self-portrait titled ‘The Things I Like’. It was …
Award Recipients for College Honours and Colours in Academic Excellence
At last week’s Secondary Assembly, we presented College Honours and Colours Awards for Academic Excellence. Academic Honours are awarded to students who have already received Academic Colours, who continue to achieve excellence and who have represented the College, state or Australia in competitions involving excellence …
Carey Aviary Featured in Australian Birdkeeper Magazine
An article on our school aviary has been featured in the latest edition of the Australian Birdkeeper Magazine. The article was written by Year 9 student Naomi Prince, who instigated the development of the aviary in the Primary School garden when she was in Year …
