From the Principal

Andrew Watt – Principal

Reflecting on the impact of our time away from the classroom

As our schools emerge from remote learning, back to the classroom, there has been much debate about the impact of this period of learning from the home on our students’ academic and social progress. Clearly, it would be expected that the impact would be strongest for our younger students in their early, formative years. Our Year 12 students, with their limited time, crowded curriculum and HSC Major works, could also be impacted significantly. Currently the available research focuses only on the impact on disadvantaged children.

Emanuel School, like many others, has focussed on providing continuity of learning throughout this period of home learning. Anecdotally, a number of our students have reported that they have thrived under the remote learning experience, citing increased time to focus and reflect on tasks, less social distractions and an increased ability to establish a manageable pace. They have enjoyed the flexibility and freedom of online learning. Others have however struggled with the amount of onscreen time, the technological glitches, the steep technology learning curve, the lack of personal contact and the difficulties around receiving clarification and immediate feedback. As time has passed and the novelty has waned, increasing numbers of our students are looking forward to a return to school. It has been no different for our teachers and those parents of younger children who have worked alongside them and provided much-needed support and guidance. Never has the home-school partnership been so important and so strong.

Despite the best efforts of our dedicated teachers; their creative and innovative use of technology; their engaging online lessons; their regular follow up and their care and support – the question remains… will there be gaps in our students’ learning? To add context, we have commenced our return to campus after five weeks of remote, online learning. It may be helpful to know that this period constitutes 12.5% of the school calendar year and approximately 1-2% of their Primary School or High School experience. Our hope is that over the coming months, any gaps in learning, if they exist, can be identified and remedied swiftly by our teachers. Our advice to parents is that any requests for leave should be carefully considered, in a year where continuity of learning has been a challenge.

On a positive note, as a direct result of the recent closure of schools across Australia, our teachers have designed teaching and learning that can be delivered flexibly and in significantly new and different ways. We now have the opportunity to make good use of the new skillset, mindset and confidence of our teachers, to cherry-pick the best of the technological tools and embed these into our future programs.

Welcome back to school

Thank you to those students who starred in a Welcome back to school video which captured their excitement perfectly. We look forward to seeing more of you in the coming week as we head towards our full return.

Virtual performance by our Senior Chamber Choir

While most Emanuel School students learn from home, the members of the School’s Senior Chamber Choir have worked with their conductor, Adam Majsay, Deputy Principal (Teaching & Learning) K-12, to create our first Virtual Choir performance. We hope you enjoy this video performance of Coming out of the Dark by Gloria Estefan, featuring solos from Ariella Tracton (Year 11), Amber Langman (Year 12) and Jacinta Shevelev (Year 8). It is a message of hope during what have certainly been challenging times. Enjoy the performance.

Timmy Simon at the beach

Mazal tov

Timmy Simon, Year 8, was appointed as Vice Club Captain of Bondi Nippers for the 2020/2021 Season.

Quote of the week

“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”
Norman Douglas

From the Head of Jewish Life

Rabbi Daniel Siegel – Head of Jewish Life

Regarding Ruth

Upon the arrival of Shavu’ot, Jews around the world will read Megillat Root (The Scroll of Ruth). The Bible presents Shavu’ot as Chag Hakatzir, The Harvest Festival (of wheat), and the tale of Ruth takes place in this harvest season.

Wheat, however, is only a backdrop to the greater significance of this Shavu’ot story.

The story opens with Naomi, a Judahite, forced to leave Beit Lechem/Bethlehem, ‘The House of Bread’, due to famine! She finds sustenance in the fields of Moab, where one of her sons marries the Moabite, Ruth. After ten years in Moab, and now bereft of her husband and sons, Naomi returns with Ruth to Beit Lechem, for she hears that bread can be had there, once again.

Ruth, the Moabite, is often quoted for her ‘immortal words’ to Naomi: “Your people are my people, and your God my God”. Indeed, she converts into the Jewish community, and the traditional term used for conversion, “coming under the wings” of the God of Israel, makes its appearance in this scroll, where it is applied to Ruth.

Ruth the Moabite, is presented as the exemplary convert. Significantly, the title Eshet Chayil/Woman of Valor (literally, ‘Wife of the man of valor’), also the name of a well-known song chanted on Shabbat, is used in the Bible only in reference to Ruth, in this scroll bearing her name. Moreover, when we bless our daughters saying: “May God make them like…Rachel and Leah, we are reminded of the words of Boaz, who becomes the husband of Ruth, and is called Ish Gibor Chayil/The Mighty Man of Valor: “May the Lord make the woman (Ruth)…like Rachel and Leah”.

All this is quite remarkable. But, the truly radical point of this scroll and its story, and its message for us on Shavu’ot, can only be fully comprehended when we consider the following words of the Bible: “A Moabite can never enter the community of the Lord”.

On Shavu’ot, called Zeman Matan Torateinu/The Time of the Giving of Our Torah, we read a biblical story that subverts a biblical law and celebrates the Moabite Ruth as the quintessential convert to Judaism.

As to why this is so, we will explore in next week’s Ma Nishma, as we welcome Shavu’ot.

Primary Hebrew during COVID times

Hagit Bar-On – Head of Hebrew K-6

Teaching Hebrew online during COVID-19 was an amazing experience for all Hebrew teachers. From uncertainty and confusion emerged a positive, encouraging and hopeful attitude. Yes, it was overwhelming at first to teach via Zoom and sometimes have 20 students staring at you through the screen. It was wonderful to watch students in their home environments and sometimes in their parents’ offices, trying to remain formal. At times, we could hear the comments and the conversations at home debating a Hebrew word or sentences which made it an enlightening experience.

In terms of the language, I feel that COVID-19 revived the Hebrew language amongst the Emanuel community. It was used and discussed in every Emanuel household since we started teaching online. We received emails from parents saying how thrilled they were to listen to their children speaking Hebrew at home. We also watched parents participate in Hebrew lessons with their children and helping them with their Hebrew activities. Families became engaged and created a bond with the Hebrew language in many ways.

I hope you had a chance to watch a few of the Hebrew movies students and their families created, previously posted in Ma Nishma. The whole family performed in these iMovies and sometimes it also involved the pets. In some Year levels, the activities involved cooking and baking in Hebrew, together with the whole family. The cooking and baking process needed to be reported in Hebrew and videoed while doing it –  some amazing recipes were revealed!

The Hebrew language games we played online were so fun and engaging. We played Quizlet Live where students were divided into groups and competed against each other in Hebrew Bingo, a Hebrew Scavenger Hunt and many more games.

Teaching online was an experience we will never forget and maybe it is a beginning of a different era of teaching. Some of our teachers and students felt more confident than others to teach online but everyone adjusted to the situation and did a fantastic job.

I am sure you join with me in expressing gratitude to the teachers for the efforts they put into educating and managing their students day after day.

I wish everyone a smooth and safe return to school in the coming weeks.

Chag Sameach for Shavu’ot (the festival of receiving the Torah and the Harvest)

Hagit Bar-On and the Primary Hebrew staff

Primary Environmental Leaders

Hello! We are the 2020 Primary Environmental Leaders. We come together with the Primary Green Team and our mentors, Ms Tritsch and Morah Ktalav, every fortnight. We aim to implement initiatives to increase our School’s environmental impact. Unfortunately with the recent Coronavirus, we are forced to stay at home, but even with this increasing threat, we can still provide simple but effective projects that you can do even during this pandemic! Here are some ideas:

How to easily regrow vegetables and fruit

Lettuce and  celery

Cut off approximately 2 inches (5cm) from the bottom of the lettuce or celery. Place in a container with water covering about a quarter of the vegetable. Transfer to soil after 5-7 days.

Onions

Simply get a small container and place an onion cut-off from the bottom in shallow water. Change water daily and wait for the magic to happen!

Want to regrow even more? Here is a link for more ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jze8utzpLhg

E-mail us photos of fruit and vegetables that you have regrown: greenfield.joel@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au and jadouin.daniel@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au

Stay safe and healthy during these uncertain times!

Year 6 Environmental Leadership Team,

Asher Filipczyk, Joel Greenfield, Daniel Jadouin and Eva Nabarro

Kornmehl

Terry Aizen – Director of Kornmehl

Yom Yerushalayim

We acknowledged Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israel’s control over the Old City. We looked at different images of the Old City, focusing on the Kotel.

We watched a short YouTube video of the Kotel with people singing and celebrating. The children shared their observations, knowledge and understanding, which included the colour of the buildings being white, gold and skin colour. The Star of David was recognised and so was the flag of Israel. 

We invited the children to write their own little messages and prayers and place them on the wall which we had created out of paper.   
To encourage collaboration and cooperation, the group were also invited to build their own wall using small cardboard boxes.

Shavu’ot

We have been learning about this festival and in particular we have been focussing on the story of Ruth, which is about kindness and loyalty, something we are constantly reflecting on and talking about with the children. We used puppets and props to bring the story alive. 

We have also been looking closely at different fruits and drawing them from close observation. We have added literacy into this learning opportunity and provided the children with labels for the different fruits to copy onto their art works.

We are also decorating our Bikkurim in preparation for our Shavu’ot Parade on Thursday 28 May 2020 at Pre-school.

We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to experience and celebrate all these very important Jewish festivals. Through the colour, song, tastes and smells of each occasion, positive memories are created for the children, memories that will hopefully instil a love and appreciation in their hearts for their Jewish heritage.

Care packs

Our Care Pack project is being launched this week with many Pre-schools and Long Day Care Centres participating in this worthwhile project to provide Care Packs for Aboriginal children in outback NSW Pre-schools. We are working closely with Gunawirra, a NSW, not-for-profit charity. Gunawirra works in direct response to the needs and resources that the Centres require, with ongoing collaboration and consultation. By teaching pre-schoolers about personal hygiene, basic health care and simple nutrition, significant improvements to primary health care can be created, therefore reducing longer term chronic health problems and ultimately reducing the difference in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Care packs ready to go

This year Gunawirra have expressed a need for a few different items to include in their care packs. These items will be combined with a donation of basic care necessities that Gunawirra has received from a very generous donor.

They are urgently in need of packs for a girl or boy aged between 2-5 years old, preferably packed inside a backpack bag. Please mark the pack GIRL or BOY and the AGE the pack is for.

Care pack contents: 

• Underwear
• Socks
• Toothbrush
• Activity/colouring-in book
• Coloured pencils or textas
• Letter from your child (optional)

Parents of Emanuel School and Kornmehl Pre-school are invited to participate in this worthwhile project. Care Packs can be left in the main reception building or dropped off at the Pre-school. All Care Packs need to be returned by the end of this term – Monday 29 June 2020. 

Be You Mental Health Program – Part 2

This week we are going to be focussing on creating a culture of kindness. Children develop compassion through acts of caring and kindness towards others, and as they grow, it can guide their actions and behaviours in positive ways.

This links in well with our reading of the story of Ruth and how the theme of kindness is brought out through Boaz’s kindness shown to Ruth by giving her left over wheat to collect at the end of each day.

When children are kind and compassionate, they are more tolerant and more aware of the suffering of others, and they are better-able to rejoice in other people’s successes. Children develop compassion through acts of caring and kindness towards others, and as they grow, it can guide their actions and behaviours in positive ways. Being a caring and compassionate role model is the best method for teaching children about kindness, and setting a good example is key to getting them to apply these values to their relationships and interactions.

The first step in kindness for a young child is helping. Provide children with opportunities to be helpful around the house in order to teach kindness. For example, you may ask them to take on small responsibilities during the morning routine, like packing snacks or getting dressed, or suggest that they help with cleaning up or setting the table for dinner time. You can also ask your children to help siblings or grandparents.

Another way to show your child the value of kindness is to bring them along when you’re taking a meal to a sick relative or neighbour or let them help you get a bag of clothes or canned foods together for a local clothing or food drive or involve your child in choosing items to include in their Care Packs to be given to another child, just like them, who does not have these basic items that we take for granted every day. 

It’s a great way for children to learn empathy and to give back to others.

While you are doing this, explain that sometimes people just need a little extra help and that being kind can make a big difference in the lives of others in need.

Weave lessons of kindness into your daily routine. When your children come home from school, ask them to tell you two ways that people were helpful to them during the day. Similarly, you can also ask them to provide two ways that they were helpful to others. You may also want to ask how it made them feel when someone helped, and when they helped others,

We need to encourage our learning community to look out for each other and do simple things that make each other’s day easier or happier. Kindness can be promoted with families and young children, which can instil a culture of hope and giving to others that will stay with them their whole lives. 

In Judaism we often refer to this as Tikkun Olam – תיקון עולם‎, repair of the world or doing a Mitzvah. 

Here are two lovely You Tube clips to watch on Tikkun Olam. We hope families will join us in teaching our younger generation from a young age what kindness means.

• Shalom Sesame: Tikkun Olam Song
• Minyan Katan: Tikkun Olam

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Community Connections – Gesher

Sonia Newell – Development Officer – Alumni & Community Relations

National Volunteer Week 
18 May 2020 – 24 May 2020

On the 5 December 2019, long before we knew about Coronavirus and how it would change our lives for now, Volunteering Australia announced that the theme for National Volunteers Week 2020 would be Changing Communities. Changing Lives. Many of the events usually held during this special week have been postponed or cancelled, with other events moving to online format or acknowledging volunteers in different ways through social media or other digital formats. Volunteers are the backbone of many of our community organisations including JNF Australia, Sydney Friendship Circle, Our Big Kitchen, Jewish House and many more. Here at school, we also have our wonderful volunteers including our dedicated P&F committee, headed by co-presidents Ruby Berkovic and Jen Opit. Without our wonderful volunteers, so much would not get done. We thank all our volunteers for their energy and support throughout the year.

One of our grandparents, Paul Lowinger, NSW Blue Box Chairman, has been collecting Blue Boxes for JNF for over 50 years – wow, that’s a lot of Blue Boxes.

Alumna Julia Meltzer (Class of 2015) is seeking our support

Julia is a student at UNSW completing a degree in Advanced Science (Honours). She is currently a fellow in The Susan Wakil Fellowship and has previously been the Habonim Dror Sydney Mazkira (secretary) for two years, and she is now standing as a candidate for the World Zionist Congress. We know Julia would love the support of our Emanuel School community to bring progressive voices like hers to the World Zionist Congress, and please get your friends and family to do the same: www.hatikvah.org.au/vote

Emanuel alumnus Sean Torban (Class of 2018) and Talking Holocaust

As I mentioned on this page last week, Sean is seeking stories to share and hopes members of our community would like to take part in his next virtual event at the end of this month. If you have a Holocaust story to share, please get in touch with Sean. You can send your submission to: seantorban@hotmail.com If it is a big video file, he recommends using: https://wetransfer.com/.  For more information on this project click here.

If you have photos and/or news to share, please send to: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au

Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom and have a great weekend. Stay well and stay safe as you and your family enjoy being able to get out and about as Coronavirus rulings are being relaxed.

Music Matters

Diana Springford – Head of Music

It looks like we have only one more week of ‘the new normal’! As we begin the transition back to ‘the old normal’ I take this opportunity to thank all our music tutors, conductors, ensemble mentors and student musicians for their fabulous online teaching and learning, their massive and sudden upskilling, and their imaginative approach to teaching and making music online. I would also like to thank our marvellous school leadership team and our terrific IT team for their support, encouragement and work to enable our music making to move online. Thank you all!

There are some wonderful projects underway, and who knows if we will get the opportunity to follow through and finish them now that our commitment to the virtual is waning. If you have not yet done so, please listen to our Senior Chamber Choir’s truly beautiful virtual choir performance of Coming Out of the Dark, managed, conducted and mixed by Adam Majsay. 

Private tuition during the partial return to school

Your situation will depend upon your tutor’s situation, their normal day of the week, the day(s) you return to school, and so on. Please check with your tutor what their plans are for the partial return to school. Tutors who are Zooming from home have taken steps to ensure that you will not need to Zoom them on a day you are actually at school.

Ensembles and choirs for the partial return to school

Your conductors and mentors will have communicated with you what the plans are for the partial return to school.

We need to consider the day(s) musicians and leaders are on campus, the size of each group, whether they are singing or playing instruments, and the size of the rehearsal space. Therefore, every ensemble/choir/band has its own plan.

Private tuition for the full return to school

All tuition will return to normal with lessons live and onsite. There will be no more Zooming from Week 6 (1 June 2020).

Ensembles and choirs for the full return to school

Many ensembles/choirs/bands are ‘back’ in some form.

The size of the group in relation to the size of the rehearsal space, and whether the group predominantly sings or blows into their instrument, are variables we need to consider.

Please see this plan for all the details:T2 W5 & W6-10 of Ensembles & Choirs Rehearsal Plans 2020 – Ensemble Rehearsal Schedule T2 Wk5 & beyond.

Instrument sundries

For those who need to stock up on replacement reeds, cleaning gear, replacement strings, rosin and other bits and pieces, below are the website details for our local suppliers who can fit while you wait:

• • Sydney Band Instruments: here
  • Irwin Violins: here 
  • Sax and Woodwind: here
  • Prestige Musical Instruments: here

For Emanuel instruments needing repair, please email: jdearaujo@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au with detailed information about the fault.

National Volunteer Week – thank you

It’s National Volunteer Week. A huge thank you to all those parents (past and present), grandparents and alumni who selflessly give of their time to the School. Below is a poem written and performed by students at last year’s Volunteers Assembly. It captures the gratitude that we all feel.

Volunteers

The ones who hold this community together,
Sticky like the dough of a biscuit, standing by us כל הזמן.
Thank you, you are the binding of the School.

Rising to help us, rising above challenges,
You are the ones that help us grow,
Thank you for being the baking powder, helping us rise. 

A sugary tang in the schoolyard.
The sweetness of the volunteers, 
Helping us develop, grow, learn and succeed.

An aroma of rich melting chocolate,
Swirls within the gates of the School,
Our gratitude to the ones who enrich our education.

May we come together and sing in chorus,
The gentle words of praise and thanks.
May we link arms and hold hands,
As we set sail on the next journey.
A journey of hope, learning, education and love. 
Yet throughout all our days, may we be grateful for the volunteers of this beautiful school.

By Liberty Waldner, Daliah Smagarinsky and Ashley Cohn

Careers

Claire Pech – Careers Advisor

Last week I was on a university Zoom webinar with Macquarie University. The Vice Chancellor gave a talk on the changing landscape of the university, and their recently announced early offers.

Professor Sean Brawley, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Macquarie University – MQ (Programs and Pathways)

My full transcript of notes can be found here, but below are the most relevant points:

• Only 25% of Macquarie University students are from other countries and so COVID-19 has not had as great an impact 
• The university’s online programs were live within five days (originally thought to take five years!)
• Macquarie University followed on with ANU’s announcement for early offers this year.
• Macquarie currently runs two early offer schemes: SRS and Leaders and Achievers Scheme (LAS). 15% of domestic students came from SRS and 28% from LAS in 2019. By comparison, 17% of the 8,000+ students they admit each year came from the ATAR pathway.
• Macquarie acknowledges that COVID-19 has impacted community engagement and leadership, which will subsequently impact LAS which opens on 1 June 2020
• All courses are now open to this scheme including the Bachelor of Clinical Science, which was not previously offered.
• Students will find they are in a “buyers market” this year 
• Last year’s HSC cohort (Class of 2019), will experience campus life, but their units of study will be delivered in a mixed mode and will be dependant on health advice. It may still be possible that courses remain online. The biggest issue for Macquarie University is the constraint of teaching spaces due to physical distancing. But the Vice-Chancellor confirmed that: “This year’s Year 12 cohort will be on campus for 2021, before session 1 starts, in a more meaningful way.”

TAFE information – webinar with TAFE NSW representatives

Full notes can be found here. Trials will most likely go ahead as per NESA directives. The Trial HSC TVET will be held on 18 August 2020 and currently no face to face TVET classes are taking place.

Year 10 subject selections

Students in Year 10 will be commencing with the Year 10 subject selection process in the coming weeks, so watch this space for more information and helpful tips.

Year 12 NESA

Year 12 students have been busily downloading their HSC schedule, which, for some, has made the HSC seem more real!

Make sure you note your pin for future log-ins and do not mix this up with your UAC information: https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/hsc/key-dates-exam-timetables

From Week 6 onwards, all careers appointments can be made via my online calendar. 

Kol Szenes

Miriam Itzkowitz, Year 12

This week, Year 12 returned to school full time and we decided to express our feelings to perhaps aid and acknowledge the similar feelings emulated throughout Szenes and the rest of High School. 

So without further ado, Year 12 presents…

Our feelings on returning to school:

• I am really happy to be back to face-face learning! It is great to be back with my friends ~ Issy
• I would prefer not to be here, but it is good to be back to see my friends ~ Erin
• I am excited to return back to school so that I can see all my friends and peers ~ Claudia
• It is great to be back at school as we now have face-to-face learning and are with friends again ~ Adam
• I’ll miss the sleep-ins, but I’m so glad for more human interaction ~ Jono
• I love being at school and seeing my friends face to face – I really missed it in isolation! ~ Sasha
• It’s nice to be back at school ~ Jonathan
• I am very excited to be back at school with my friends and teachers ~ Nate
• I am quite happy to be back at school! Even though I am getting less work done I think I understand now how to work quickly and effectively ~ Tali
• Coming back to school has been a surreal experience… It has been lovely to see familiar faces, but I do still feel worried about the national management of the health crisis ~ Asha
• I’m really excited about returning to school because we can see each other after almost three months of isolation! ~ Jesse
• While I don’t enjoy the drive, I am really looking forward to the in-person interactions with my friends and teachers! ~ Miriam
• I have mixed feelings about returning to school. I’m glad to be back and see the people I haven’t seen in a while. But I have also gotten used to ‘homeschooling’ and I feel I am more productive at home ~ Kaia
• I was really looking forward to heading back to school because it gave me the opportunity to see all my mates again as I haven’t seen them over the course of isolation ~ Beau

Return to school

This is the schedule for High School who will be transitioning back to school during Week 5:

• • Year 7 – will attend on Wednesday
  • Year 8 – will attend on Wednesday 
  • Year 9 – will do remote learning the whole week
  • Year 10 – will attend on Thursday 
  • Year 11 will come in on Tuesday
  • Year 12 will continue as usual full time

In Week 6, everyone returns to school full time.

Announcements

• Formal uniform is to be worn in Term 2, including blazer and tie.
• Shavu’ot – commences in Week 5 on Thursday night, so school will close on Thursday at 2.50 pm and remain closed for Friday
• COVID-19 current information from the Department of Health. Maintain social distancing and hand good hygiene.
• Are you e-smart? Find out here to stay safe online.
• Take a short brain break between your classes. The brain breaks are located in Reshet High School Cafe under the Wellbeing icon.
• Follow @szeneshouse on Instagram for some wellbeing and study tips, memes and just general Szenesian spirit.
• Also follow your madrichim on @es.madstagram for some updates, challenges, wellbeing and overall fun times.
• Shabbat will be on Zoom this afternoon at 4.00 pm – Rabbi Siegel will send the link. Please join in with your friends and family!

Quote of the week

“Nothing can be done except little by little.”
Charles Baudelaire

Shabbat Shalom and have a fantastic weekend!

Szenes House

Parents and Friends

Ruby Berkovic and Jen Opit

Parent and Friends meetings

Entertainment Books

Year 5 Opportunity Class 2021

Dunera – in conversation…

Canteen

We have launched our new take-home meals option from the canteen. We want to provide you with some of our popular items to enjoy at home. Our menu changes weekly, so remember to check flexischools.com.au for updates. 

We will be providing the take-home meals on the following days:

• Monday (order by previous Friday 4.00 pm)
• Wednesday (order by previous Monday 4.00 pm) 
• Friday (order by previous Wednesday 4.00 pm) 

Pickup will be from the Waxman Gate between 2.20 pm – 2.50 pm. For students of essential service workers and staff, we will be running a daily canteen with a limited menu. Should you need to contact us, please feel free to email canteen@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au.

Midford uniform store

The Midford uniform store is now open in Avoca Street 

Midford has opened its doors at its new premises at Shop 3, 155 Avoca Street, Randwick. The site is larger, air conditioned and close to our campus, with parking available at the nearby Royal Randwick Shopping Centre. 

The shop’s new trading hours are: 

• Monday:    8.00 am – 11.00 am 
• Tuesday:   1.00 pm –   5.00 pm
• Thursday:  1.00 pm –   5.00 pm

Considering the current social distancing requirements, you may wish to:

• order online at www.midford.com.au (password: ES1983)
• email emanuel@midford.com.au 

You can also call ahead to make an appointment for Winter uniform fittings on 9326 5445.

For security and hygiene purposes, the uniform shop is now cashless, so please be prepared when planning your shopping trip.