The week that was in Szenes House:

• Years 7 and 8 are getting excited about Camp Somerset, which will take place next week, from Tuesday to Friday. We wish them a wonderful time and look forward to hearing about their excellent experiences.

• On Monday, a group of Year 11 students, (from Szenes House: Liron Smith, Madeline Weinstein, Michal Wolstein and Sonia Redman, together with Gal Cohen-Kvatinsky, Romy Berson and Lauren Faul from other Houses), organised a plain clothes fundraiser for Give your Heart Day for Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) in Israel. SACH is an international non-profit organisation which provides lifesaving cardiac care to children from over 51 developing countries and offers comprehensive training to medical professionals from these countries. SACH has saved the lives of over 4000 children – let us help them save more. Our group wanted to carry on with this, so that we did not just forget our fundraising after Monday. So we have created an Emanuel Team Fundraiser to sponsor a child! Her name is Samira, and she is a three year old girl from Darisyam, a small village in Tanzania. She was admitted to the Wolfson Medical Center through SACH for evaluation and repair of her congenital heart disease in May 2016. We are fundraising to assist with her recovery and continued health. Let us all work together and give our heart out to those who need it.You can donate to help Samira here: www.classy.org/team/104926

• Alex Burman (11) spoke in a recent assembly about the importance of donating blood. Alex donated blood last year and encouraged students over the age of 16 to consider giving blood also. Alex was inspired to give blood as his mother started regularly doing so when she was 18 and his grandmother at 20. Blood donations will occur during lunchtime on 26 and 27 February.

• Ruach is alive and well in Szenes House! During our House Assembly this week Year 11 students, Liron Smith, Gabriel Wolf, Allegra Goldman, Jade Reuveny, Dheanna Eller, Sonia Redman and Michal Wolstein performed a dance, which was co-ordinated during their Chavayah trip to Israel.

Quotation of the week

 “You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”
~Winston Churchill

 Enjoy the weekend.

Szenes House