Inter-House Swimming Carnival

Mazal Tov to the Swimming Age Champions, especially students in Szenes House:

• 12 Mark Kang (7)
• 14 Jacob Rose (8)
• 16 Allegra Goldman (11)
• 17 Tammy Sologub (11)

Joshua New, Year 10, wrote:

This year’s Swimming Carnival was full of neck-and-neck races, heaps of ribbons and a huge amount of House Spirit. Not even the heavy downpour of rain could dampen the spirits of the competition between the Houses. It did, however, more than dampen the belongings of anyone sitting up in the stands! Considering the miserable weather, the number of students who competed in the many races, both from Szenes and from the whole of High School was exceptional. House Captains, Bella Kidman and Charlie Wrublewski, and Sports Captain Dylan Kramer, along with the rest of the Year 12s, kept the House Spirit high and the Year 12s’ bizarre costumes made the day even more entertaining. The Swimming Carnival overall was a huge success. Congratulations to Rabin House, the winners of the Carnival and to anyone who participated on the day.

Photos: Hannah Adler – Year 10

Tennis Gala Day

On Monday 12 students represented the School at the CDSSA Tennis Gala Day. Four of the competitors where members of Szenes House. Three out of four students in the girls team included Szenesian’s Isabella Reichel (9), Natasha Gering (10) and Tasha Lapidge (10). Luca Calderon Havas (7) also competed. We did Szenes and Emanuel School proud and came 2^nd in our pool despite competing against elite ‘sporting’ schools. We won all three matches against Pal sports and tied in a few matches with Seda (‘sporting’ school). We gave it our best against the Tennis school but in the end were not successful; we lost most matches except for the doubles.

Report by Isabella Reichel, Year 9

Diversity Day assembly

Laura Sweeney (opposite) briefly addressed the student body at our High School Diversity Day assembly this week.

Liron Smith, Year 11, wrote: “Diversity Day at Emanuel School acknowledges that every individual has the right to be themselves. Laura Sweeney was the guest speaker this year who is a Specialist LGBTQI Adviser to the Human Rights Commission. She spoke about the acronym LGBTQI, which is the abbreviation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, Queer, Intersex communities. A message in her speech was that we need to make these people feel as equal as people who do not identify with a group in the acronym.”

International Women’s Day

During our High School assembly this week Rabbi Kamins asked the student body why has it taken so long to recognise the equal rights of women?

International Women’s Day was celebrated on 8 March. The theme this year was Be Bold for Change. To celebrate students were asked to wear purple, green and white.

Our Head Madricha, Yael Grunseit, together with House Captains, ran various activities during House assembly to raise awareness and celebrate International Women’s Day. All money raised on the day will go to the Malala Fund, which supports girls’ education around the globe.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/malala-fund-supporting-girls-education-globe/story?id=18399402

Purim

Purim was celebrated today, Friday 10 March, with students wearing an interesting array of costumes. Students participated in a variety of Purim activities this morning.  

Coming up

Monday Week 8 SRC Fete – theme around the world. More details to follow.

Quotation of the Week

‘Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.’

Malala Yousafzai

Enjoy the weekend,

Szenes House