Hi Everyone!

Welcome back to a busy start to Term 2. We hope that you had a wonderful end of term break and Pesach.

So far there have been Three Way Learning Conversations (3WLC) for Years 9 and 7, with Year 8 3WLCs happening next Wednesday. We have attended commemoration ceremonies for ANZAC day and Yom HaZikaron and on Thursday students and staff wore blue and white to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut.

Year 9 students recently attended a Year 9 Jewish Studies Changemakers Excursion whilst other Year 9s including Szenesians Eliza Bowen, Layla Goldberg and Ellie Morris are currently immersing themselves in the East Timorese culture.

We welcome back to school next week Year 11 Szenesians  Miriam Itzkowitz and Claudia Burman, who attended the March of the Living program (MOTL). The mission of MOTL is to challenge participants with two of the most significant events of Jewish history – the Shoah (Holocaust) and the birth of the State of Israel. The March of the Living itself, a three-kilometre walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, is a silent tribute to all victims of the Holocaust. After spending a week in Poland visiting sites of Nazi Germany’s persecution and former sites of Jewish life and culture, participants travel to Israel the following week to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day.

To find out more about Miriam’s and Claudia’s experience on MOTL click on the link to their blog here http://smotlaus.tumblr.com/

Announcements for Week 4

• Good luck to Year 12 who will be sitting their Half-Yearly Examinations.
• Inter-House Beep test

If you would like to participate in the Inter-House beep test on Friday Lunch in Week 4 (24 May), then be sure to let your House Mads, Mia Port and Erin Nabarro know.