Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the last week of term!

So much has happened this term already! Some examples include:

• Swimming Carnival
• Years 7 and 8 Survival Camp (led by our amazing Peer Support Leaders)
• Purim
• Inter – House netball
• Practice Pesach celebrations (now we’ll all be experts for the real thing)
• Cabaret
• Dancing in the Dark

I was curious as to what your favourite parts from the term were, what you are looking forward to in the holidays and what you are looking forward to for the rest of the year. Personally, my favourite part of the year has been my musical endeavours on clarinet, in Music 2 and also performing at Cabaret! In the holidays, I am looking forward to catching up with friends and going on the March of the Living with Claudia and, for the rest of the year, I am excited for Emanuel’s Autism Awareness Day, Music Camp, Night of Song and starting Year 12! I asked you to reflect as well, and here are some of your answers:

My favourite part of this term was camp. I’m looking forward to going to Bali in the holidays. I’m looking forward to Shorashim.

Alena Lewy (Year 7)

My favourite parts of this term have been Somerset Camp, Maths and Music. I am looking forward to going to Noosa, chilling at home and getting some sleep. I am looking forward to more Maths, Music and completing my pinball machine for Technology. I am also excited for Israel Expo and Speech Night (the end of the year).

Ruby Miller (Year 8)

My favourite part of this term was doing Maths. I am looking forward to the holidays because a) I don’t have to go to school and b) I get to see Avengers Endgame in cinemas. I am looking forward to the Da Vinci Decathlon.

Jake Newfield (Year 8)

I have enjoyed camp, I have bonded with my whole tutor group and we got to know one another. I am looking to going camping with my friend and going away to Avoca Beach and Terrigal with my family. I am looking forward to completing Year 8 and progressing through school.

Lewy Saul (Year 8)

We’ve been enjoying more independence in our assignments and starting our new subjects and electives. In the holidays, we are looking forward to not having to do homework, the Easter Show and sleeping in. For the rest of the school year, we are looking forward to doing practicals in Science and Ski Camp!!!

Year 9 Szenes

I enjoyed Elective History this year. I’m looking forward to sleeping in and going to Melbourne and I’m looking forward to Chavayah.

Kyah Laishevsky (Year 10)

I loved peer support camp; being with the kids and getting to know them better was amazing – it was definitely one of my favourite camps of all time! I am really looking forward to having some time to relax as this term has been extremely busy with the additional workload compared to Year 10. This term has been great; I have especially enjoyed being able to do the subjects that I chose and am interested in. The new topics and subjects have really intrigued me and I am looking forward to the rest of the year.

Jesse Waller (Year 11)

I am so happy to be a part of SRC’s relationship with Knit for Life. Our fundraiser this term was a large success and a beginning of a beautiful connection. Sleeping. Relaxing. Organising. After quite an overwhelming start to year 11, I am looking forward to taking a breather in the upcoming holiday break! The rest of 2019 holds much excitement. I am looking forward to what many of my classes are yet to teach me.

Asha Friedman (Year 11)

My favourite part of this term was Purim. In the holidays I’m looking forward to not going to school and sleeping in. For the rest of the year at school, I’m looking forward to Hospitality excursions.

Claudia Burman (Year 11)

My favourite part of this term was Student vs. Teacher Basketball. In the holidays I’m looking forward to taking a break from exams and spending some time away from school work. For the rest of the year, I’m looking forward to the madrichim and school run events from both Year 12, and next semester’s Year 11 madrichim.

Matt Joffe (Year 12)

March of the Living

Claudia Burman and I will be embarking on an immersive educational programme in Poland and Israel to learn about the Holocaust. We are both very much looking forward to returning to Israel after Chavayah, and, although there is some angst about going to Poland and visiting concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, we both feel as though it will be a very important learning experience that will be absolutely priceless in terms of the insight and information we get out of it.

Liat Granot

Great Jewish Books Summer Program

Liat Granot in Year 10 was accepted into, and may be about to embark, on an incredible journey to Amherst, MA, to learn about Jewish literature from around the world, in an American summer camp, called Great Jewish Books Summer Program, run by the Yiddish Book Center out of Hampshire College. Having been last year, I know for a fact that it is an absolutely incredible experience, and it is really like none other, living on a university campus and having a real American “college experience”. Liat says she is excited, if she is able to go.

ALS Plain Clothes Day

On Wednesday, we had a plain clothes day raising money for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) along with Dancing in the Dark. Many well known people have suffered from this terrible autoimmune disease, such as Lou Gehrig and Stephen Hawking. Many people pass away from this disease within three years, and we lost our very own Mr Churm to this terrible disease. This initiative is to honour his legacy and the amazing things he did for our school before he retired in 2015 to take care of himself in his last few years.

Announcements

• I will not be here for the first two and a half weeks of next term because Claudia Burman and I will be going on the March of the Living! To assist in the running of Kol Szenes, we have two wonderful contributors from Year 10: Tara Linker and Liat Granot! If you have anything you would like to be put in Kol Szenes, please talk to them and they will try to organise it for you!
• Congratulations to Liat Granot in Year 10 for being accepted into the Great Jewish Books Summer Program run by the Yiddish Book Center out of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA – having been myself, I can vouch for the fact that it is a truly wonderful experience, and it will be lots of fun!
• Well done to Szenesians, Erin Nabarro and Miriam Itzkowitz, for their respective performances of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables and You’ll be Back from Hamilton at Cabaret Night!
• For the next two terms, we will be in winter uniform which means that ties and blazers are required
• Next term, we will be returning to school on Tuesday the 30 April 2019

Happy Birthday to the Szenesians who celebrated their birthdays this week and those who will be in the holidays!    

• Mia Port (Year 12)
• Jordan Baskin (Year 9)
• Myles Cohn (Year 9)
• Eden Glass (Year 9)
• Hannah Lax (Year 10)
• Lenny Levy Vainer (Year 12)

Finally, a little challenge for all those artistic Szenesians out there:

Design a new Kol Szenes logo

We will all vote and all the designs will be featured in Kol Szenes and the winner’s design will be the new header to Kol Szenes every week! To submit your designs, please e-mail them to me: itzkowitz.miriam@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au

Miriam Itzkowitz

Kol Szenes Editor

Quote of the Week

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

~ Andy Warhol

Shabbat Shalom and have a fantastic break!