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Chaplain’s Corner – Senior School
Fifty years ago last Sunday, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. I remember that day well as we were sent home from school to look at history being made...
25 July 2019
Chaplain’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 – Senior School
The misuse of the humble apostrophe is something that mildly annoys me. When I see a sign advertising ‘spa’s for sale’ or ‘cheap car’s’, I would like to erase the errant apostrophe...
20 June 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
Chaplain’s Corner – Senior School
This week at Carey we are celebrating Literature Week. Each section of the School will have special activities as well as guests to highlight the delight of getting ‘lost in a book’. By any...
06 June 2019Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
I’m about to go on an adventure. As you are reading this newsletter, I will be doing my last minute packing, along with a group of Year 6 and Year 9 students and other staff, as we...
06 June 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Senior School
The Sea of Galilee teams with life – fish, plant life and sea creatures. About 140km south from there is the Dead Sea. It is the exact opposite – nothing survives, hence its name...
23 May 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
Last week I had the wonderful privilege of spending the week at Toonallook, one of my favourite destinations, with a Year 6 class. Yes, it was hard to leave my family and other responsibilities...
23 May 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Senior School
I recently read this quote from Mahatma Gandhi: ‘The things that will destroy us are: Politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character...
09 May 2019
Chaplain’s Corner – Junior School
In some of our CARE classes this week, we have been talking about the Carey Positive Learner Attribute for 2019, ‘Resilience’. We have particularly focussed on one aspect of resilience...
09 May 2019