Anne Hastings – Principal

Chavayah

Greetings from Israel where we have successfully settled with 75 Year 10 students who will spend the next six weeks here, learning about and experiencing Israel. After a long flight the students are today doing an orientation of the campus and the expectations of the Alexander Muss Madrichim and teachers, and will begin their first lessons. Tomorrow we head to Jerusalem for a very special Shabbat. What a privilege it is for them to be able to have this immersion in Israel with their classmates!

Volunteers Assembly

On Tuesday of this week we hosted our volunteers and donors to a Years 5-12 Assembly and Morning Tea so that we could show our appreciation for their support of our School this year. We particularly acknowledged Susie Rosen and Sharon Schulz who have been Co-chairs of our P & F committee for the past six years, as well as other groups of helpers – the Parent Safety Group, the Board and members of Board Sub-committees, the P & F committee, Ofer Levy, our Rabbis who regularly visit the School and our major donors, particularly Aron Kleinlehrer.

Sharon Schulz and Susie Rosen – Co Parents and Friends Chairs

Here is an excerpt from my speech:

“As well as the benefits the students get from all our community volunteers, you are impacting on our students in a significant way by being role models. You help us create our culture of giving to others. Our students see so many of you giving back and so perceive volunteering as a way of life. This influence can be even more valuable than the benefits you bring. From the bottom of our hearts we thank you for the role that you play in helping embed the philosophy of giving, of donating your time, expertise, energy or financial support – to make a better life for us. You have made a really significant contribution to the life of our students and to Emanuel School and we would like to show our gratitude.”

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Staff leaving at the end of 2016

Dr Sally Cove

Sally came to Emanuel School nine years ago, planning to stay only nine months. That we have had the benefit of her expertise in teaching History for that length of time is a great privilege. She has raised the level of enthusiasm of students for learning History considerably and has seen many very notable excellent achievements in History at HSC level over the years. We are very grateful to Sally for sharing her amazing knowledge and skills with our students over the years and wish her well for her next adventure.

Nickcole McGlinn

Nickcole has been working at Emanuel School for the past six years in the Visual Arts Department. A specialist in Photography and Digital Media, she has inspired many students in this area of creative arts. She has also assisted the Visual Arts department with administration and taught Visual Arts to Years 7-12 students. This year, two of her Year 12 students were nominated for ARTEXPRESS for their HSC Major Works. Nickcole is moving to Queensland next year. Our thanks go to her for her great contribution to Visual Arts at Emanuel School.

Yen Wynddancer

Yen has been with us for the past ten years, assisting in the IT Department with our learning management system, clickview and academic reports, as well providing professional learning support to teachers on numerous aspects of IT. He has been a wonderful addition to our School, being always so positive, warm and caring, and having the ability to explain things so clearly. We will miss Yen and wish him all the best as he moves on to the next phase of his life.

Arturo Valera

Arturo has been with us for the past six months, working as Database Administrator. His family is moving to Wagga, which is a bit too far to commute from! We thank Arturo for his work here and wish him well for the future.

Also leaving us at the end of 2016 are Primary Teachers, Megan Best, Emma Buzo, Corey Jamieson and Desray Maltz. Natanya Milner has included a tribute to these departing Primary staff in her article this week. We wish them well in their future endeavours.

Correction

Last week we mentioned the wonderful success of the Years 7 and 8 Mathematics team who won the HICES Hard Core Mathematics competition. My apologies for naming the younger Moliver rather than Ethan, in Year 7, as being part of the winning team.

Mazal tov to:

• Year 10 Drama students who performed their Drama monologues and group performances so confidently and competently on Monday evening of this week.
• Garry Johns who was a member of staff at Emanuel School for 18 years. Garry’s main role was as Science Laboratory Technician. He retired from the School two years ago and came back last week to be given his 10-year and 15-year metal leaves to be added to our gratitude tree near Reception.
• The Years 7 and 8 Oztag teams who competed recently in the Jewish Schools Sports competition and the CDSSA Oztag competition.

Coming up

• Primary Musical, Seussical, Sunday 27 November, 4 pm, Monday and Tuesday 28 and 29 November, 6 pm
• Primary Art Exhibition, Spotlight, Sunday 27 November
• Year 9 Three-way learning conversations, Monday 5 December, 12 – 3:30 pm
• Year 8 Three-way learning conversations, Wednesday 7 December, 12 – 3:30 pm
• High School Speech Night, Wednesday 14 December, 7 pm, The UNSW, Clancy Auditorium
• HSC results released Thursday 15 December, ATARs on Friday 16 December

 Quote of the week

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a byproduct.” [Eleanor Roosevelt]

Best wishes for a relaxing weekend.