Eden Sadra

Olyvea Akres

Hey guys, Eden Sadra and Olyvea (Liv) here! We are thrilled to let you all know that we are your new editors for the 2017 Rashi Times. We are so excited to be back at school to start a great new year.

We are both in Year 10 and enjoy so many of the opportunities we get at Emanuel. I (Eden) am a real humanitarian and love subjects like Geography, HSIE and English. I also used to dance competitively which was a huge part of my life for a very long time. I (Liv) enjoy the structure of academic subjects like Mathematics and Science but still have a creative side that is greatly influenced by Emanuel School and the freedom I am given here.

We started school this year in full swing with new teachers and new students.  We welcome the following students to Rashi House: Year 7: Luca Calderon Havas, Brody Elbourne, Ben Rozen, Jessica Rubin, Jayda Sacks, Yakir Sadra, Isabel Sarraf, Deborah Winter; Year 8: Tara Israel, Year 10: Lola Phillips and Year 11: Adam Shul.

On Monday 13 February we had a great fundraiser co-ordinated primarily by Michal Wolstein as well as the rest of the Year 11 cohort who have recently returned from their jam-packed Chavayah Israel trip. The fundraiser was in honour of the charity Save a Child’s Heart, which is a worldwide organisation that provides urgently-needed heart surgeries to children in developing countries. They have saved over 4,000 children and continue to train doctors to be able to perform these time-sensitive and difficult surgeries. The activities at lunch were centred around Valentine’s Day with song dedications, face painting and card writing to the children undergoing surgeries in Israel or to friends. Let’s hope the people’s sweet messages ‘touched the hearts’ of those children in Israel.

Some more exciting news is the upcoming annual musical production of Legally Blonde. rehearsals have been underway for a couple of months now with the main cast working hard through the holidays to learn their songs. They are on the way to a brilliant and entertaining performance. It’s a huge undertaking but with a cast as dedicated and hard-working as this year’s they will surely do Emanuel very proud. After all, Genevieve Goldman is the star of the show!

We all heard Ms Hastings speech at the beginning of last week about setting goals for this year and we know that Katie and Maya have their eyes on the prize for Rashi. With the Swimming Carnival coming up in just a few short weeks let’s all bring House spirit and Rashi pride so we can win that Ezekiel Cup.

That’s it from us this week. Have a great weekend.

Liv and Eden signing off