Year 12 Meirians graduate

Sadly, last week we said goodbye to our Year 12s. The Year 12 Meirians have played an integral part in planning, creating and building our Meir House and they are the very first Meir graduates. At our House farewell, we presented them with a picture book and a matching song that outlined their time at Emanuel in Meir House. Thank you all for bringing joy, passion, commitment, enthusiasm, positivity and happiness to our new house. You have set the standards incredibly high for the future Year 12s of Meir. We are going to miss you so much!

From Mr Ezekiel

Firstly, I would like to express my utmost appreciation for Ms Selinger’s work with her Tutor Group. Tutors do not normally need to manage having a new collection of students in their Tutor Group – particularly in the senior years of school. The way you brought this group together and created a group that seems to have been together since Year 7 is remarkable. 

Setting up Meir House was the most rewarding and enjoyable thing that I have done in my teaching career. The rewards and enjoyment were not from the House itself… it was from watching the Year 12s invest so much time and effort into creating an environment that people wanted to be a part of. In PDHPE, we talk about extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to achieve something. Extrinsic motivation is being driven by a reward or accolade and intrinsic motivation is a desire to achieve something from within. This House has been built on the intrinsic motivation of each member of this Tutor Group.  A trait, that if you keep when you leave school, will help you achieve anything.

Thank you to the Year 12 Meirians for your energy, enthusiasm, weird ideas, laughter and ability to make things happen throughout the last two years to create Meir House.

Peer Support

Congratulations to our new Peer Support leaders for 2020: Dean Reuveny, Becky Nebenzahl, Georgia Kahane, Charlotte Lyons, Elia Gil-Munoz and Ruby Hurwitz.