Hey Rashi, Eden and Liv here!

High school students have certainly been very busy during the last two weeks with the Swimming Carnival results coming out, CDSSA swimming, Purim, International Women’s Day and Diversity Day taking place.

Unfortunately our Rashi spirit wasn’t enough to push us over the line at this years Swimming Carnival but we placed a solid second behind Rabin and some pretty impressive records were broken by our Rashi swimmers as well as some wonderful age champions. They are listed below:

Rashi Age Champions

12 years girls age champion – Deborah Winter

13 years girls age champion – Gaija Avshalom

15 years boys champion – Jared Elbourne

17 years boys champion – Joshua Amoils

New Records in Rashi

13 yrs Girls 100m Freestyle – Gaija Avshalom

We’ll just have to give it more next time Rashi but Liv and I still know we can get that Ezekiel Cup. Let’s just say that the Athletics Carnival is ours!

Purim at Emanuel this year was an amazing day full of crazy costumes and an extraordinary amount of ruach. Seeing the teachers getting up on stage during the annual parade is always a plus as well. Both Eden and I could tell from the smiles on everyone’s faces that the day was a success.

International Women’s Day was on 8 March and it set out to celebrate the advances of women and the effort towards equality within today’s society. Amazing programs were run for all of the year groups in P0 where we were given opportunities to voice our opinions on women’s rights and discuss issues for all genders within the world today. All the money raised on the day went to the Malala fund which helps pay for women’s education in developing countries and opening schools in places where women do not have the right to education. Thanks so much to Yael Grunseit for making this a day to be remembered.

Diversity Day was also last week, on Tuesday 7 March. We were lucky enough to have a brilliant speaker, Laura Sweeney, come in to speak at the High School Assembly about some of the troubles that the LGBTI community in Sydney face, but also the things they have accomplished over the last couple of years. Year 10 was lucky enough to have an extra 40 minutes with Laura where we used the time to ask questions and dig deeper into the issues that she mentioned to the whole High School. It was really interesting to hear her views and I know we would have all loved to have even more time with her.

Happy Birthday to Rashi March babies!

Tomer Belkin                   Year 11

Adam Shul                       Year 11

Maya Armstrong              Year 8

Sarah Armstrong              Year 8

Samuel Bloomfeild           Year 11

Chloe Ben-Mayor             Year 10

Yakir Sadra                       Year 7

Cassandra Woods            Year 10

Deborah Winter                Year 7

Sacha Rosen                    Year 7

Oscar Morgan                   Year 8

Matthew Bozic                  Year 9

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

Liv and Eden signing off.