Welcome
Sonia Newell – Development Officer – Alumni & Community Relations
Welcoming more past students back to School
Student records from the early days of the School before the computer-age, are far from complete. We are however, working on remedying this discrepancy and may need your help to fill in some of the gaps. It is a bit like trying to find missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Whilst searching through printed copies of past YearBooks I came across a 1990 Year 3 picture that included a student named ‘Anna Hirst’ who was not on the database, as well as current parent Anita Clark (nee Silver). It was a lovely surprise to discover that Anna, who was here from Years K-6 and then completed her schooling at Newtown Performing Arts High School, is a member of the Hirst family that has a very long history with Emanuel School. Her mother, Adrienne, was the ESL co-ordinator and Resource Teacher for Years K-9 here in the mid-1980s and her father Ralph was a member of the Founding School Board. Anna’s two brothers David and Jonathan both finished Year 12 here in 1990 and 1993 respectively and their own children are current Emanuel students, whilst Anna now has her daughter Jordana Friedman here, having just started this year at Kornmehl Pre-school.
Amongst other past students we welcome back to the School this year as new parents include Avital Melman (nee Vitenberg), Fernando Espinos, Yaffa Shnirman (nee Tkachenko), Paul Hamor and Ranald Kogan. I hope I haven’t left out anyone. Please let me know if I have.
Sydney Friendship Circle (FC) says “Thank you Emanuel School”
As many of you know, FC is an organisation that provides support for children and young adults with disabilities, with much support from our alumni, parents and current students throughout the year. Their one big annual fundraising event, the FC Walk last year was different to previous years because of COVID-19. Their 2020 theme Friendship knows no distance still allowed us to help them to raise awareness and much needed funds for their camps and other activities. Gabriel Wolf (Head Madrich, Class of 2018) is pictured below at a recent FC camp.
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Stay safe and Shabbat Shalom.