On their visit to Canberra for Year 6 camp last term, our students were able to explore Parliament House in order to gain a hands-on understanding of the workings of our democracy. Parliament was not in session but they were able to learn about the various layers of government and the safeguards that are in […]
Years 6-12 students honoured our ANZAC legacy with an assembly on the first day back of Term 2. Students read the poem ‘For the Fallen’, by Laurence Binyon. They also spoke of the disparity between the benefits that were given to non-Indigenous soldiers returning from the Great War and Indigenous soldiers who served alongside these
Years 6-12 students and staff marked Yom HaZikaron this week in an assembly that honoured Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Director of Jewish Life and Learning Ilan Bloch shared how Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, the founder of the Mussar movement, stressed that if a fellow Jew is in pain, we are all in pain.
We celebrated the State of Israel’s 77th birthday yesterday with fun activities across our campuses. Junior School and ELC students started the day with a moving tekes where they were fortunate enough to be addressed by both Ben Gurion and Golda Meir! Year 4 students enacted their traditional flag parade with precision and commitment, and
This week the School moved from the sombre commemorations of ANZAC Day and Yom HaZikaron to the celebration of Israel’s 77th Yom HaAtzmaut. Our Jewish tradition impels us to recognise the complexity of human emotion and I feel that this is especially the case this Yom HaAtzmaut. We are reminded that even in the times
The symbols, tastes, songs and stories of Pesach came to life this week in our Junior School s’darim. Students sang together, acted out the story of our exodus from Egypt and searched for the Afikoman. Our Prep – Year 2 students shared their s’darim with family members and special friends. At our Years 3 to
As Yom HaShoah falls during the school break, we commemorated it today with a moving ceremony at our Magid Campus. Students lit candles dedicated to Chelmo, Bergen-Belsen, Sobibor, Majdanek, Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau. After a minute’s silence, teacher Geoff Garber recited El Maleh Rachamim and students said Elie Wiesel’s Kaddish. We heard from school grandparent and Holocaust survivor Peter
From Money, Money, Money to I Do, I Do, I Do, our students danced and sang their way through the ABBA catalogue and into our hearts. Director Eli Erez and musical director Matan Franco (Class of 2010) expertly made this iconic musical come to life on Orrong Road. They were wonderfully supported by choreographers Eden
Over the past weeks we have been busy across the School preparing for Pesach. This has taken on many forms. Our Kibbutz David Hamelech gardeners have harvested horseradish which has been sold to grateful families by volunteers from the KDSPA. We have conducted a series of model s’darim where parents and grandparents delighted in our
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Woof mail is a wellbeing initiative in the Junior School whereby students can write to Gunther for advice and connection. Woof woof, everyone! Gunther here, reporting from Woof Mail headquarters (under Janice’s desk). I have some tail-wagging news to share — I’ve been getting lots of letters and emails! It’s been about six weeks since