The Primary School Madrichim have had an amazing term full of fun projects. We’ve done an Emanuel World Cup and introduced two new soft toy friends – Emanuel the Spaniel for Years 3-6 and Pablo the Penguin for Years K-2.

For Anti-Bullying Day we created a friendship tree, where everyone wrote a special friendship message. It has and will continue to be an amazing term!

Friendship

Each year we do an activity for Anti-Bullying Day. This year the theme was Growing Connections and we chose to focus on friendship building. Ms Thomas has put in a lot of hard work to put in a beautiful tree on the blue ocean. Every student was asked to write a special friendship message on a paper leaf that was added to the tree. Soon we will be starting a lunch time club called Together Tuesday. The Madrichim will be running lots of fun friendship activities such as; friendship karaoke, friendship bracelet making and many more fun team and friendship building sport games. This will give everyone in Primary a chance to connect with each other. We are all so excited for Together Tuesdays!

Terrific Toys 

This year we have been working on a system that includes two stuffed toy prizes – Pablo The Penguin and Emanuel The Spaniel. Pablo is for the K-2 students and Emanuel is for the 3-6 students. We judge a secret area every two weeks and we present them at assemblies. The focuses are: bags, uniforms, classrooms, playgrounds, lining up and many more. Each week we go around checking the special areas but now one knows what it is, then we count up all the points and present the stuffed toy to the winning class for the fortnight.

World Cup

Some of you may know that the Women’s World Cup has just finished. In line with this exciting event, Emanuel School decided to create their version for Years 3-6. There were four teams in Years 3-4 and six teams in Years 5-6, creating lots of competition for each tournament. The games were held at recess on Waxman Drive every day for three weeks. It was an amazing event with many spectators crowding around the games, cheering on their friends and classmates. Many amazing results came out of the competition with Japan taking the victory for Years 3-4 and a stressful penalty shootout awarding England the win for 5-6. Honourable mentions for USA and New Zealand coming runners up in the tournament, as well as a special thanks to Ms Thomas for helping us to organise this extravagant event. 

By Eva Bartfeld, Lola Cohen-Peace, Tali Gellert, Oscar Glikin, Jazzy Goodman, Claudia Hochroth, Jemima Hockley, Ethan Likht, Tabitha Masnick, Ciel Sharibani Kat, Lily Smaller and Nava Weiss
(Year 6 Madrichim 2023)