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8 Tuesday, 27 February, 2018
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Members of the Student Representative Council and House Captains were also presented with their badges. “These are role models for you; leaders for you; and they will be doing the very best they can for your school,” Mr Smith told the younger students. “They have taken on a very big responsibility and will need your help to do that.” Carter’s mum, Clare, dad Steve and three of his six brothers and sisters were at the special assembly, beaming with pride. Continued on page 3:
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The other reason, is pretty much everything about Carter that has branded him as a welladjusted, energetic, resilient and motivated leader at Gladysdale Primary. Carter was voted in as one of two school captains, along with Jessica Bennett, after successfully pitching to the whole school at the end of last year. On Thursday, 22 February, they were officially presented with their captain’s badges by Casey MP and Federal Speaker of the House, Tony Smith and new school principal Jeff de Villa.
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“Carter is a happy-go-lucky child who won’t let anything stop him.” That was the caption under a photo of a smiling four-year-old Carter Morrissey when he featured on the front page of Upper Yarra Mail in November 2010. Mail journalist Mara Sowden’s estimation of Carter, now 11 and in year six at Gladysdale Primary School, was spot on. Carter stands out for lots of reasons.
One of them is the physical scarring from several operations to remove a giant birthmark which from birth covered a large part of the right side of his head and face. The medical term is a ‘nevus’ and one in every 500,000 children is born with the severe form of the congenital melanocytic nevus which covers more than two per cent of the body. He had his first operation to remove the nevus when he was just 18 months old, has had several more over the years, and just recently has been fast-tracked for more scar revision and work on his eye brow. 1191831-HM30-15
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