Ma Koreh
Adam Carpenter – Head of Jewish Life Primary
Purim celebrations
On Monday, which also happened to be Shushan Purim, the ‘walled community’ of Emanuel School celebrated Purim. Our morning began with music and song, as enthusiastic and disguised parents watched our Purim parades. Dressed up in creative and imaginative costumes, the K-6 students danced, sang and brought some amazing Purim ruach. Primary staff embraced dressing up, with creative nautical Nemo themed costumes, our Hebrew teachers decked out in pirate gear and our Informal Jewish Life Minions Lyv and Noah all working hard running and coordinating our celebrations.
Our day was filled with a range of fun activities and Purim creativity including;
- Decorating and filling mishloach manot bags to share with classmates.
- Donating food to OzHrvest for the mitzvah of matanot le’evyonim.
- Enjoying fun outdoor activities run by the Year 6 student.
- Year 5 visited the Food Lab to make oznei haman for Primary School.
- Purim Kahoot quiz.
- Purim arts, games and crafts
Years 2-6 staff and students enjoyed a Purim picnic seduah (feast) and a play in Centennial Park to conclude our celebrations:
“We loved filming our Disney themed Purim music videos with Lyv and Noah. We showed this to Years 3-6 to during the Megillah Reading.” By Annie Krusin and Rafaela Abraham
“I played Haman in our Purim video and sang a Purim themed song to the Moana song ‘You’re Welcome’. My favourite line was ‘What can I say, except bow down now’. “I played Mordechai in our musicals and I loved singing to a Mulan tune to the Purim story…and not bowing down to Haman!” By Sienna Kery and Zen Roffe-Nassi
“I was in the Food Lab during our celebrations with Ms Rosenfeld and Morah Erika. Together with Juliet and Rafi we helped the Year 5 students make hundreds of Hamantaschen for the students in K-6.” By Oscar Grynberg
“Hearing everyone laugh for our videos and the trailer we made was like receiving a hundred gifts.” By Asher Levenston
