Boys educated to know, to do, to live with others and to be A group of eight boys and two staff members from St. Paul’s College in Hong Kong have been with us for the past week as part of a strong exchange program which Christ Church has shared with the school for the past six years. read more World Scholar’s Cup 2017 Five of our Christ Church boys have made it through to the next global round of the World Scholar’s Cup, having competed in this year’s event. read more The road to Mathematics Olympiad As a child, William Hu (Year 11) enjoyed music and puzzle books. In between composing his own pieces and playing on the piano, he was engrossed with solving puzzles, where the patterns in numbers and shapes never failed to fascinate him. read more Language skills assist in navigating Chinatown Our Year 10 Chinese class, accompanied by teachers and an assistant, ventured into Perth’s Chinatown last Thursday to test out their language skills in various authentic situations. read more Supporting our mates through Men’s Health Week In Australia, almost one young male is lost to suicide every day. That male could be someone’s son, brother and mate. read more House Cross Country 2017 Six-hundred and fifty boys across Years 7 to 12 took part in the annual House Cross Country last Friday afternoon, tackling a near 4km course around Kings Park under what was pleasant running conditions. read more Celebrating Indigenous culture Each year, the PSA Indigenous round of football takes place alongside the AFL’s Indigenous round which celebrates and recognises Indigenous players and culture. read more Building healthy and strong relationships Over 200 Year 9 boys and their fathers gathered in the School Refectory last month for the inaugural Year 9 Father/Son experience, a special opportunity for fathers to discover new ways to build healthy, strong relationships with their boys. read more National Boarding Week 2017 Boarders at Christ Church participated in a wide variety of activities during the inaugural National Boarding Week (14 to 20 May), a week aimed at generating positive awareness around boarding across Australia. read more Army Cadets demonstrate the art of fieldcraft Our Army Cadet Unit were deployed to Bindoon Training Area over the recent weekend for their Term 2 field exercise. The focus of this field exercise was for the senior leadership group to plan, deliver orders and execute a number of tasks in a tactical manner. read more Boys triumph at OzCLO It has been another triumphant year for Christ Church boys and their participation of The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad (OzCLO). This year, Christ Church had seven representing teams and fielded its first ever senior level team. read more Making the most of sleep There are a number of things that can interfere with your sleep, including a late/delayed body clock, stress/anxiety, feeling pressured to “do it all” and undervaluing sleep. During high school, around nine hours per night is recommended (but this varies from person to person). A few nights of poor sleep won’t be the end of the world, and there are individual differences in how much sleep we need. read more Masts, check, all aboard, check! Our first group of Year 8 boys have just returned from an amazing five nights spent aboard the STS Leeuwin II which set sail from Monkey Mia on 29 April. read more CPR hero receives Bravery Award Described as a tremendous ambassador for both Christ Church and Surf Life Saving WA, Year 11 student Stanley McFarlane was recently presented a Bravery Award by WA Premier Mark McGowan at the SLSWA Coastal Bravery Awards. read more Best of the West – The Great Derby Debate All boys were invited to the Senior Library this week to meet visiting authors David Wish-Wilson and Sean Gorman, and to bear witness to the Senior Library’s ‘Great Derby Debate’. This involved a panel style debate aimed at determining once and for all which AFL team of the West is really best – West Coast Eagles or Fremantle Dockers? read more Army Cadets deliver an exemplary start Our Army Cadet Unit have been keeping busy with a number of support activities in past months, including a recent guard and flag orderly for Dalkeith Primary School’s Anzac assembly. This was their sixth year of involvement and is now an annual fixture on the unit’s calendar. read more High achievers join forces for special cause A poolside chat between Bill Kirby and Karl Paganin saw these two high achievers join forces for a special cause. read more WA Secondary Schools Team Sailing Championships 2017 Christ Church was very well represented at the recent 2017 Western Australian Secondary Schools Team Sailing Championships hosted by Nedlands Yacht Club between 10 to 12 April. read more WA da Vinci Decathlon 2017 Eight students in each Years 7 to 10 competed in the WA da Vinci Decathlon at Wesley College in late March. The da Vinci decathlon is an academic competition in which boys work together to complete tasks across 10 different disciplines. These include Mathematics, Science, English, Code Breaking, Art and Poetry, Cartography, General Knowledge, Creative Producers, Ideation and Engineering. read more New York, New York Twenty-one boys from Years 9 to 12 will be heading across to the Big Apple next week as part of our popular Art Tour. This 17-day tour will include New York City via Hong Kong where each student will get to experience the authentic, contemporary cultural vibe that each city has to offer. read more Earthkeepers go above and beyond Whilst the Year 5 Earthkeepers Outdoor Education program may be finished up at Kooringal, the boys will be working hard at home and in class to become ‘Level One Earthkeepers’. read more The Mask You Live In Our Year 10 boys were recently invited to a screening of the U.S documentary The Mask You Live In which follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating society’s narrow definition of masculinity. read more Solving real-world problems using robots Each year, the School sends a team of students to compete in the Rescue division of the ‘RoboCup’. RoboCup is an annual and international robotics competition with teams ranging from high school to post-graduate university level competing from all over the world. read more Champions of 1958 return to Head of the River Last Saturday morning saw a fantastic community event down at Champion Lakes with the prestigious 2017 Head of the River Regatta. read more Building our next generation of engineers Each Friday morning, our Mathematics Department run a specialist class for students from Years 10 to 12 who are on the Maths Methods or Maths Specialist pathway, and are interested in studying engineering (particularly mining engineering) at university. read more New prefects join student leadership team Fifteen new School and House Prefects were inducted at the Senior School Assembly last week to help lead the current student leadership team. read more Christ Church claims Tregonning Cup The School swim team proudly took out the Tregonning Cup at last Thursday’s PSA Inters swimming competition at HBF Stadium in front of a packed stadium. read more A taste of the colonial court system Boys studying Humanities in Year 8 paid a special visit to Perth’s law courts last week to experience a full court hearing process and participate in legal education activities. read more Olympian motivates swimmers at pasta night Christ Church old boy and Olympian swimmer Tommaso D’Orsogna (2007) provided motivation to the PSA Inters swim team last night ahead of tonight’s competition at HBF Stadium. read more The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee The Midnite Youth Theatre Company proudly launches its 2017 season with a hilarious American musical for grown ups at the Subiaco Arts Centre, presented by the Midnite Ensemble. read more