This week, our VCE Unit 3 & 4 students completed their final examination of 2025. Immediately afterwards, our Years 10 and 11 students entered their exam period and they will be followed by our Year 9s in early December. Written exams have long been a feature of our matriculation system. There is continued debate over […]
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When I was a student growing up in the 1980s we were often set research projects as major class assessment tasks. For instance, I remember projects on coffee, glow worms and on the Olympic Games. One that stands out is a project that I completed on the country of Costa Rica. We were given significant
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This week there has been significant media coverage regarding the Federal Government’s social media ban which will come into effect on December 10. This will make it illegal for children under the age of 16 to have accounts on most social media platforms. The Government recently announced that it was adding further services to the
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Dear Community, Today, Victoria marks World Teachers’ Day. This is an occasion to celebrate the extraordinary impact that teachers play in the lives of young people and in the betterment of society at large. I have the unique privilege of witnessing firsthand the incredible skill, dedication and care shown by our teachers every day. I
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That special ingredient that turns similarly-aged students into a cohort, a collection of individuals into a community, and our school into a second home was on display at Year 12 Celebration Day which occurred last Friday. Celebration Day marked a beautiful opportunity to farewell the Class of 2025, also known as Shichvat Yuval, as they
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This has been such an extraordinary week. We are all feeling bruised and apprehensive, and our joy is mixed with so much sorrow. But finally, finally, after such unimaginable suffering, we have been blessed to see the footage of the remaining living hostages being reunited with their loved ones. Of course, the raw emotion of
We are in the midst of an extraordinary series of Performing Arts events at our school. This includes last week’s success in winning the interschool Battle of the Bands competition and our fabulous Years 3 to 5 performance of The Jungle Book. This week has brought our extraordinary Spring Concert and this Sunday our Middle School musical, The Spongebob Musical opens.
Every morning across the School we have heard the blasts of shofar from our Year 2 ba’ale tokea (masters of the blast) at the Dandenong Road Campus and a roster of student and staff volunteers at Magid Campus. We are now well into the month of Elul, the period where we sound the Shofar every day so
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According to research referenced by the Climate Council in their Climate Anxiety Toolkit, more than three quarters of Australians are worried about climate change. In particular, a worldwide study found that more than half of young people surveyed are feeling “sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty about climate change.” Climate change is indeed scary.
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This week our Year 7 cohort delighted their parents, grandparents and special friends with their celebration of the Kabbalat Mitzvah. This program is one that is focused on acknowledging the special stage of life that accompanies the B’nei Mitzvah years. In Jewish custom it is said that one does not have a Bar or Bat
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