Anne Hastings – Principal

House Music Concert

Michael Bartels entertains the audience

On Monday evening the whole of the High School was highly engaged in the annual House Music event. What a joyous, sometimes raucous, evening it was! The word has clearly spread, since there were quite a large group of parents there to see the fun, and were not disappointed. From the first performances of the X Factor items, through the Small Choirs, Rock Bands and then culminating in the full House performances, each House excelled, showing great support of each other and amazing cohesiveness and creativity in their choreography. This evening was a great tribute to the musical talents of many of our students, and also the leadership skills of the House Captains and Music Captains, who had selected, arranged, choreographed, organised and lead the rehearsals, all out of school hours, over the year and particularly in the preceding weeks. Congratulations to all the students who worked on this major event in our calendar, as well as the Heads of House and Tutors who assisted along the way. Thanks also go to David Gwilliam and Ben Marshall for their musical and AV assistance.

Volunteers Assembly

With a less-than-twelve-hour turnaround from the House Music, the MPH hosted about 45 volunteers to our annual Volunteers Assembly with Years 3 – 12, so that the School could say ‘thank you’ for their efforts over the year. Close to 300 volunteers give their time/and or financial assistance regularly during the year to support our School. This shows the true spirit of our community, one of giving, generosity and commitment. With us on Tuesday we had about 45 of these, who were able to join with us so that we could personally thank them. We have parents, ex-parents, grandparents, even ex-grandparents and other relatives and friends who work as volunteers to help out with a wide range of activities. See the article in this newsletter for more details of our assembly.

 Speed of downloading Ma Nishma

Our sincere apologies for the very slow download speeds for the Ma Nishma pages that seemed to have crept up on us in the last month or so. Our IT department has investigated and made some changes, so you should notice significantly faster speeds now. Please let us know through sending an email to reception@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au if things don’t improve for you.

Prize presentations

Each year many parents and members of our community donate prizes for students at our end-of-year Prize Presentations. There’s a page on this in this newsletter. If you’d like to donate a prize, please email Darryl Bourke on dbourke@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au for High School, and Holly Dillon on hdillon@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au

Parent survey – report

Further information from our Parent Survey results follows.

Parents were asked the importance they placed on reasons for choosing Emanuel as the school for their children.

The chart shows reasons ranked in order of importance.

MMG (the company who ran the survey) regards reasons for choosing schools with importance scores of 80% or higher to be critical and worthy of consideration for school performance reviews, enrolment processes, in marketing collateral and communications and assessing strategic plan implementation.

The charts below show the percentage of parents who noted their expectations have been met/exceeded ranked in order of the importance they placed on the same reasons for choosing Emanuel. Overall, expectations met/exceeded is ‘very high’ (90%) and equal to the MMG Database average score of 90%.

Thank you to:

• Liahm Simon, Jack Mane, Sienna Amoils, Gabriel Bogomolets, Zane Voloshin, Jake Kurlansky, Adam Cranko, Michael Shenfield, Genevieve Goldman, Gabriel Wolf, Ashne Amoils, Joshua Amoils, Aron Jaffe, Tomer Belkin and Gabriel Sebban (Year 12) for staying back on Monday evening to help clean up the MPH
• Zac Nabarro, Kyah Laishevsky (Year 8) and Nathaniel Spielman (Year 9) for their sound and lighting assistance for the House Music on Monday evening
• Michael Nebenzahl (father of Rebecca and Zoe) who very generously donated two Kawai pianos that will be used almost every day in the new Rossi Tuition Rooms. Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and generosity!
• Adam Sulcas, son of Aviva Pelham, who provided 10 free tickets to our Year 6 students to the production of Santa’s Story (see article in this bulletin) 
• Michael Bartels, for once again entertaining the students at House Music while the judges were deliberating.
• Year 8 Rabin Tutor Groups, whose project this term is to clean up the school, and who are spending time doing so each week. 

Mazel tov to:

• Amber Langman, Year 9, who won the People’s Choice Prize at the Royal Randwick Busking Festival last weekend.
  
  

  Amber Langman

• Erin Baskin (Sculpture 46/50), Gal Cohen Kvatinsky (Digital Photography 47/50) and Hannah Shteinman (Life Drawing 44/50), Year 12 2018, for their excellent achievement in the HSC Intensive Studio Practice course at the National Art School.
• All the students who swam in the MS Maccabi Swimathon at the weekend, and especially Gabriella Goodridge for being captain of the team (see article in this bulletin)
• All of the House and Music captains who lead the students in the House Music on Monday evening.

 Coming up:

• Community farewell for Anne Hastings, Sunday 26 November, 5.30 pm
• Dani Klein – Parenting during the HSC, a Presentation, Monday 27 November, 7 pm
• Year 6 Pathways, Friday 8 December, 12.30 pm
• K-2 Presentation, Tuesday 12 December, 9 am
• Y3-6 Presentation, Tuesday 12 December, 6 pm
• High School Speech Night, Wednesday 13 December, 7 pm

Quote of the week 

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” [Mahatma Gandhi]

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Shabbat Shalom