From the Principal

Andrew Watt – Principal

Madrichim Leadership team 2020-2021

The votes have been counted and we are delighted to announce our formal Madrichim team below. We have a large number of capable students who missed out on a position, or who did not put themselves forward. We look forward to the broader leadership of this combined group, who, at the recent leadership training camp, built their aims for the year and worked out how to put their passions into action through Va’adot (student run committees). Mazal tov to:

Head Madrichim
Maximilian Kidman and Chloe Miller

Madrichim
Jade Berson
Lara Fosbery
Liat Granot
Tara Linker
Dean Reuveny
Jared Robinson

House Madrichim

Meir:               Georgia Kahane and Charlotte Lyons
Rabin:             Ezra Hersch and Ari Merton
Rashi:             Aaron Lemberg and Aden Hoenig
Szenes:          Jessica Lowy and Alexis Joffe

Induction Assembly online

In yet another departure from our traditional format due to COVID-19 restrictions, only our Year 10 and 11 students will take part in the live event, to be held in the Lehrer Family Building (MPH). The Induction Assembly will, however, be viewed online by the proud parents and relatives of our new Madrichim team, our staff and students in Years 7 – 9. Regardless of the format, this event will be special. Our Year 12 students will be sitting an examination at this time.

100 Days of Learning

I was delighted to visit the Year K students on Wednesday to celebrate 100 Days of Learning – an annual event which marks this significant milestone in the children’s educational journey. The students’ songs, prayers and the ever-popular parade was live streamed to parents and grandparents as this is usually an event that many attend. I picked this photo to share with you, taken with Jack Salamon who dressed up as the Principal – with almost perfectly matching tie and bag. Thank you to all those involved in making this day such a highlight for the students, in particular, Year K teachers, Talia Hynek and Annabelle Turrall. You can find a plethora of photos in this week’s edition of Ma Nishma.

NESA Registration and Accreditation

All schools across NSW are required to be registered, in order to operate, and to be accredited, to offer the HSC. The process to maintain registration and accreditation is rigorous and requires a great deal of ongoing work, in terms of our compliance to a range of legislation, producing high quality academic and wellbeing programs and a suite of up-to-date policies and procedures. Recently, the State Minister for Education approved registration for Emanuel School and the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) approved registration and accreditation for the School. We have received the official certificates, which are displayed in our reception. The registration and accreditation will continue until our next inspection/approval process in 2025. Additionally, our status as a Teacher Accreditation Authority (TAA) has been approved. This will allow the School to offer professional development programs that are recognised by NESA.

A morning tea for staff was held (under strict infection control guidelines), to celebrate this significant achievement and to recognise the efforts of our entire staff team. Special thanks to the key players: Margaret Lowe, Adam Majsay, Natanya Milner, Jillian McCormick, Julian Abelson, Katie Brody and Andrew Delany.

Emanuel School Annual General Meeting

We value the contribution of parents in the governance of the School, through Board and Committee involvement. Our Annual General Meeting was held on 28 July 2020, followed by our Board meeting. I am pleased to confirm our Board members for 2020 – 2021:

Adam Blackman, President 
David New, Vice President 
Gary Joffe, Treasurer
Daniela Freed
Paul Miller
Alan Obrart, Emanuel Synagogue representative
Ashley Rockman
Nathan Waller
Orli Zahava

We congratulate them and recognise the significant contribution they make to our School.

Upcoming online events for your diary

Online Speaker Series with Hannah Beder, Emanuel alumna and NSW Young Woman of the Year 
Thursday 6 August 2020, 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm
RSVP by 4 August 2020 

Night of Instrumental Music
Wednesday 26 August 2020 – further information to follow

Zoom Family Trivia 
Sunday 30 August 2020, 4.00 pm – 5.00 pm
RSVP by 25 August

Mazal tov

Congratulations to the Year 3 and 4 Extension Maths students who took part in the Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians and achieved a Distinction: Theodore Salek, Zachary Salamon and Rafael Kuper.

Quote of the week

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
John Maxwell

From the Head of Jewish Life

Rabbi Daniel Siegel – Head of Jewish Life

Shamor VeZakhor – safeguarding and remembering

This week’s parashah, VaEtchanan, includes a repetition of the Aseret Hadibrot/The Ten Utterances, with one notable difference.

In Shemot/Exodus we read Zakhor/Remember the Sabbath day to keep it sacred/set apart
and here in Devarim/Deuteronomy we read Shamor/safeguard the Sabbath day to keep it sacred/set apart.

Recently, our students were confronted with the question of whether we can remember if
we do not safeguard that which should not be forgotten.

Survivors of the Kinchela Boys Home spoke with our Year 9 elective class, Freedom and Responsibility, about the childhood taken from them as victims of the Stolen Generation. While some survivors felt the Home should be “razed to the ground and ploughed under” as the only fitting response to the evil and abuse that had taken place there, the prevailing voice maintained, for the very same reason, that the site must be preserved.

Safeguarding the site perpetuates remembering for those who suffered and of those who perpetrated or were silent to their suffering.

The Home, now listed as a heritage site, received grants totalling $200,000 to repair and maintain the buildings, to create a healing centre and, hopefully, a museum and educational centre, as well.

Entering the Boys Home gate, the stolen children “were prevailed upon to forget who they were”. In 2012, a group of former Kinchella boys officially handed over one of the gates to the National Museum of Australia, reminding us that neither they nor we should forget.

Judaism believes that truth-telling and healing is only possible when the past is safeguarded so wrongs can be redressed and our collective remembering can make for a new narrative.

In 2012, Aboriginal Elders with part of the gate from the Kinchela Boys Home that was sent to the National Museum.

Primary

Meghan Carroll – Deputy Head of Primary

What’s in your lunch box?

How do you come up with creative and healthy lunch options that your child will enjoy each day?
How do you ensure you are providing your child with a healthy, colourful and energy filled lunch box items?
How do you pack lunch for a picky eater?
How can you stay up to date with the latest lunch box ideas and connect with other parents/carers to ask questions and share solutions?

If you have wondered about the answers to any of these questions and want to know more about packing a healthy lunch for your child, then please read on! We hope that these tips and resources below will give you some practical ideas about what to put in your child’s school lunch box each day. 

The Cancer Council NSW is excited to share a new look Healthy Lunch Box website. The website has been improved with new features and functions based on what health professionals and parents wanted on the website. Developed by dieticians, healthylunchbox.com.au is a one-stop shop for everything families need to know about packing a healthy lunch box. 

 Here’s what you will find on the website:

• An interactive lunch box builder that helps parents and kids plan and pack a healthy lunch with foods they like. 
• Lots of quick and easy recipes and snack ideas.
• The ability to filter recipes based on diets, easy to freeze and prep time.
• Regular healthy eating blogs including articles about how to reboot the lunch box and what to look for when food shopping.
• The Healthy Lunch Box e-newsletter, which schools, parents and organisations can sign up to for ideas, updates and recipes. 

100 Days of Kindergarten

On Wednesday, the Kindergarten classes celebrated the 100th day of school. It was a fun-filled day focused on the theme of 100. The children really enjoyed the experience as it is a special milestone in their ‘big school’ lives. Thank you to Talia Hynek, Annabelle Turrall, the Kindy support team and the Kindy Hebrew teachers for helping to organise this event. 

Students preparing for Project Heritage by reading and writing about different Holocaust-related books

Project Heritage begins

This week the Year 6 students met their historians on Zoom. Students and mentors will meet three times over the next few weeks to learn about their Historian’s life, experiences and

much much more. This unique learning opportunity provides students with a connection to the past and to the community. We look forward to seeing the final student presentations towards the end of Term 3. Thank you to all Historians and Mentors for their commitment and contributions to this valuable part of Year 6.

High School Sport

Kristy Genc – Head of Sport, PDHPE Teacher & Year 12 Tutor

New Strength and Conditioning Coach

Our new Strength and Conditioning Coach, Samantha Diamond, is a welcome addition to the Sports Department. Samantha is an Emanuel alumna and also a previous Sports Madricha. Samantha has a vast amount of sports training experience, and we are looking forward to her bringing this expertise to our students and sports coaching staff. 

Samantha will be working with our Emanuel sporting teams to improve their fitness for their specific sports as well as running general sessions in the Emanuel Wellness Centre. The Centre will be open for general sessions in Term 3 at the following times:

• Wednesday lunchtimes
• Friday lunchtimes

Before participating in gym sessions, students are required to complete an induction process. Any students who are interested in training in the gym and completing the induction are required to make a booking by emailing sdiamond@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au

Kornmehl

Terry Aizen – Director of Kornmehl

Welcome to Term 3 

The children have all arrived back at Pre-school very happy, settled and eager to learn and play with their friends.

Already, the classrooms are buzzing with activities, provocations, wonderings and ideas and lots of learning together with their friends and educators.

Sustainability 

This is an important part of our philosophy and curriculum. Practising sustainability empowers children to construct knowledge, explore values and develop an appreciation of the environment and its relationship to their worlds. This lays the foundations for an environmentally responsible adulthood.

Some of the ways we already teach, and involve the children in sustainable practices, include having a worm farm and compost bin to reduce food wastage. We also have recycling bins for paper and cardboard and invite children to use recycled materials in their learning such as box construction etc. We provide natural materials to use in open ended ways such as pattering and the learning of maths concepts. They are also used in the block area for props and stimulate imaginative and creative play. 

Over a period of time however, what we have noticed is the amount of paper/recycled paper the children are using and how much of this is being wasted. After some brainstorming and consideration of ways we could reduce the amount of paper going into our recycled bin, the idea of each child having their own scrapbook to draw/paint in was decided upon, as a way to promote an awareness of paper usage, recycling and sustainability. The children know, to find their own scrapbook for everyday drawing and to use this instead of wasting lots of pieces of paper. The idea is for them to be more thoughtful and purposeful in what they draw, but also to be able to revisit their work and add more details over time. 

At a program meeting staff came up with some ways to introduce the concept to the children. They formulated some questions to ask and included other strategies such as how each child would be given the opportunity to personalise their book e.g. literacy by writing their name, drawing a picture and telling the story behind this which the educator would scribe. 

The discussion started by doing a “See, Think, Wonder” routine. Placing some paper in the middle of the circle and inviting the children to tell us what they could see? What were some of the uses of paper?  Where does it come from? etc.

Here are some comments from the children:

Phoebe: We don’t want to keep using new paper.

Miles: We don’t want to hurt the trees.

Sam: We don’t want to waste it because we have to cut down the trees.

Ari: The trees won’t be able to live because they will be cut down.

Sam: If there’s no trees, the animals will die.

Cian: When there was a bushfire, all the trees got burnt.

Phoebe: If we cut down all the trees, we won’t have any oxygen.

Ari: It will pollute nature. Nature will get full of garbage and the trees and animals won’t be able to live.

Arlo: Paper comes from paper bark trees. People invented machines that make it thin and white. It’s easy to rip and very delicate.

Alice: You can decorate on paper.

Georgia: You can hang it.

Abby: It’s for cutting with scissors.

Josh: You can make stuff with it.

What very thoughtful, clever children we have. Teaching this generation of children to engage in sustainable practices is vital for the future of our planet. 

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Buddy Reading

We were very excited to finally start Buddy Reading again this term. Mrs Esra came down with her Year 2 class to share some special time together. It’s always so lovely to reconnect with past Kornmehl children.

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Happy Birthday

We wish a very Happy Birthday to Aby and Ella Marcus (5), Kaya and Georgia Fisher (4) and Alice Berkovic (4). We also wish a very Happy Birthday to our Educator, Heather Marshall. We hope you all had a beautiful day.

The Care Pack Project

Terry Aizen – Director of Kornmehl

The Care Pack project has finally drawn to a close. What an amazing and overwhelming response we had from everyone involved. I thank you all for your support and enthusiasm in helping to bring a smile to the faces of Aboriginal children in outback Pre-schools across NSW. Please pass on my sincere thanks to all your families for their generosity and support. The Care Packs were all counted and delivered to Gunnawirra, a NSW, not-for-profit organisation in Redfern, that supports Aboriginal Country Pre-schools. 

We collected 616 Care Packs in total! A tremendous effort.

The Care Packs were generously filled with much needed items and the extra touch of a beautiful back pack or reusable bag, completed the package, making it an extremely successful project.

This amazing amount of Care Packs came from just 13 schools – Emanuel School, the Kornmehl Centre Emanuel Pre-school, Mount Sinai Early Learning Centre, Moriah College Early Learning Centres, Emanuel Woollahra Preschool, Botany Bay Preschool, First Class learning Centre in Maroubra and Chifley, Koala Cottage Childcare, Kambala Hampshire House, The Killarney School, Waverley College Pre-school, Zig Zag Long Day Care Centre and Clovelly Child Care Centre.

Please see below the thank you letter from Gunawirra for our involvement in the Care Pack project this year:

Dear Parents, children, teachers and communities

Your extraordinary acts of generosity and kindness in providing care packs for our families and communities is incredible and overwhelming.

I thought when COVID-19 hit us all, Gunawirra would struggle to fine the items needed for the packs. I can’t thank you enough for your willingness and determination in putting our families and communities first in providing those items for the care packs.

I know many families have struggled over the last few months in providing basic hygiene items, so your amazing efforts is so welcomed.

Please accept from everyone receiving the care packs our sincere thanks and also how much we value and appreciate the kindness you all provide.

This is why Australia is the best country in the world, it’s because of people, families and communities like yours that make it that way.

Thank you

Yours sincerely

Graham Toomey

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director at Gunawirra

100 Days of Learning for Kindergarten

Annabelle Turrall – Primary School Teacher

Talia Hynek – Primary School Teacher

100 Days of Learning 

On Wednesday 29 July 2020, Kindergarten celebrated their 100^th day of school with a fashion parade and fun stations based on our theme for the day – ‘100’. We are so proud of how far they have come in all aspects of their learning. They are enthusiastic, kind and resilient students who have taken on every challenge that has come their way with a positive and can-do attitude.

Students dressed up for the occasion as either 100 years old (school really ages us!) or wearing 100 of something. Check out their outfits below.

We can’t wait to see what happens in the next 100 days.

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Maths Challenge for Young Australians

Colleen Elkins – Gifted and Talented Co-ordinator K – 6

Our budding ‘Mathemagicians’

Congratulations to the first batch of recipients of the Maths Challenge for Young Australians awards. (Years 3 and 4)

The following students achieved a Distinction:

Year 4 

• Theodore Salek
• Zachary Salamon
• Rafael Kuper

The following students achieved a Credit:

Year 4

• Jake Rosenfeld
• Kayla Strous
• Cooper Adler

Year 3

• Mia Lia
• Jessica Lopis
• Tal Wajsman
• Zachary Churnin
• Oscar Glikin
• Ethan Likht
• Asher Levin
• Liam Frankham

It was a test of focus and tenacity and all students should be proud of their efforts on this four-week task which demanded commitment and organisation from all participants.

We are so proud of them all!

Premier’s Reading Challenge

Six more students have completed the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge 2020. The total is now 23 students. Hopefully many more are entering their reading and will do so in time to complete the Challenge by midnight on 28 August 2020. 

Congratulations to:

• Kindergarten: Zachary Drutman
• Year 1: Ella Cohen 
• Year 2: Ryan Miller and Nathan Shammay
• Year 3: Gideon Cohen
• Year 6: Jemma Drutman

Happy reading to all.

Ginnette Cameron-Gardner
Primary Teacher Librarian

Where are you now?

Sonia Newell – Development Officer – Alumni and Community Relations

Where are you now?

Please join us for our first online Guest Speaker session next Thursday evening – 6 August 2020. We look forward to sharing alumna Hannah Beder’s amazing journey since finishing Year 12 here in 2012. Hannah is the NSW Young Woman of the Year 2020 and late last year she won the 2019 Young Urban Inspirational Women’s Award “established to recognise women and young women who best exemplify Rotary’s motto of Service Above Self (i.e. community service the individual performs above and beyond their normal role”.  rotarydarlingharbour.org.au

If you and other family members or friends would like to be part of this exciting session, please RSVP to: snewell@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au  by Monday 4 August so we can send you the link.

Julia Sussman, Co-Founder Youth HEAR julia@youthhear.com

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies

The recent NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (NSWJBD) elections saw members of our School community elected, including alumna Julia Sussman (Class of 2014). Julia sits on our Gesher committee and she is co-founder of Youth HEAR (Holocaust Education And Remembrance), an organisation launched in 2018 dedicated to bridging the gap between Australian youth and the memory and awareness of the Shoah. Visit Youth HEAR on Facebook.

B’nai B’rith & JNF Jewish Changemaker Awards 2020

Nominations are now open and can be made online. Nominate someone in the Jewish community who is making the world a better place. Age categories are Youth (under 18) and Young Adults (ages 18 to 35). At Emanuel School we have seen many of our students and alumni nominated for these awards over the years, since they started in 2013. We had three winners in last year‘s competition – the 2019 youth contribution to Australian Society winner was Emanuel student, Elia Gil-Munoz now in Year 11, whilst Miriam Itzkowitz now in Year 12, won the youth award for Contribution to the Jewish community. 

Ben Wilheim

Remember September

Alumnus, Ben Wilheim (Class of 2008), won the Young Adult category, Contribution to Australian Society, for his efforts to raise awareness and funds for education and research into a cure for pancreatic cancer. His organisation, Remember September,  was created in 2015 by Ben and his brother David, following the death of their father Danny and their cousin Danielle (who was only 33), from this disease. 

Visit the Remember September website.

The challenge is to drink only water for the month of September, and together with close friends, many of whom are also Emanuel alumni, Ben and his supporters have to date, raised over $230,000 for pancreatic cancer research. September is only around the corner and any support we can provide for this worthy cause would be much appreciated.

Friendship Circle (FC) Walk 2020

Our extended School community has strong connections to FC through a variety of ways – it might be through volunteering efforts and/or having children with special needs who attend the amazing events organised by FC for children and young adults of Sydney with disabilities. FC looks forward to our support for this year’s virtual walk here.

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

Shabbat Shalom.

Music Matters

Diana Springfield – Head of Music

Ensembles and Choirs – please join us!

Now is a great time to join one of our ensembles or choirs. We always welcome new members after Music Camp in June, and even in the absence of Music Camp, we welcome new members now. We have core ensembles, which are a great start, and then we have extension ensembles for musicians who have shown great commitment and leadership in these core ensembles. If you have only done IP until now, it’s a great time of year to join Gershwin Concert Band or Rubinstein Strings. If you love to sing but haven’t yet sung in a choir, try Infants Choir (Years K – 2) or Junior Choir (Years 3 – 6) or Senior Choir (Years 7 – 12). 

Please check out our regular Term 3 Ensemble Rehearsal Schedule to see if you would like to become part of our Music program. This schedule has the rehearsal day, time, and location, but it also includes information about the age range of students involved and whether or not the ensemble requires an audition for entry. 

Night of Instrumental Music (NOIM) in Week 6

NOIM is scheduled for the evening of Wednesday 26 August 2020. It is very unlikely to go ahead as a proper concert on site, but we are exploring options for streaming the concert or making recordings available. These recordings will be made during the day of Wednesday 26 August 2020, so everyone should be practising their parts and attending rehearsals with a view to their big showcase performance in Week 6.

This wonderful and popular concert is our main showcase for all small, medium and large instrumental ensembles. NOIM is also a compulsory component of the Primary Instrumental Program (IP). All students from Years 3 – 6 will perform at the concert in their year group ensembles and we will also have a performance by our Years K – 2 Infant Strings Program. 

Essentially, every student will perform who plays a string instrument (violin, viola or cello), concert band instrument (flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, baritone, euphonium, tuba and percussion) or is in one of our Concert Bands, Stage Bands, Jazz Ensembles and small chamber ensembles.

For many of our younger musicians it is their first performance for an audience other than their family. This is also a lovely opportunity to see both younger and older musicians perform in the same event. 

Careers

Claire Pech – Careers Advisor

UAC news

Last week I mentioned the onset of Open Day season this term. Even though they will be online and virtual this year, it is well worth checking out which universities and institutions you wish to visit from the ease of your lounge room here. UAC has also released a checklist for Year 12s, most of which students will know of already but worth having too. 

As Year 12’s prepare for HSC Trial Examinations, there are some important dates that Year 12 and parents will need to be aware of:

UAC’s key dates

• SRS Student applications close on 20 September 2020 (only for select Schools Recommended Scheme)
  
• SRS School ratings close on 30 September 2020
• ATARs released at 9.00 am on Friday 18 December 2020 (I will be in school on this day for any emergency meetings)
• Deadline for changing preferences for December Round 2: Midnight on Saturday 19 December 2020 – this date is critical.
• December Round 2 offers released: 7.30 am on Wednesday 23 December 2020. 

Find out more UAC dates here and the newsletter here.

Sydney University has now shared its virtual school visit with students. Feel free to download it here.

NSW listings for June 2020 

I thought it would be an interesting exercise to peruse the most prevalent job areas advertised in NSW this month:

• Registered Nurses – 1261
• Software and Applications Programmers – 1228
• Advertising and Sales Managers – 880
• Accountants – 636
• ICT Business and Systems Analysts – 588
• Construction Managers – 541
• Advertising and Marketing Professionals – 344
• Welfare, Recreation and Community Arts Workers – 338
• Human Resource Professionals – 318    
• General Medical Practitioners – 259

(Source: jobjump.com.au June 2020)    

What is most important with these statistics is how many others are going for these roles, but it can be a snapshot of what is going on in the economy. It is interesting that nurses rank at the top and are in the most demand at the moment.

Notices

ACU guarantee

Opens 3 August 2020

Guarantee your place at ACU, even before your Year 12 exams. The ACU Guarantee program offers eligible Year 12 students a place at ACU based on your Year 11 results.

Offers may be made as early as September.

For more information click here.

University of Sydney news

• Parent Information Session, Tuesday 4 August 2020 from 6.00 – 7.00 pm. For more information and registration click here.
• Great at Art or Music? NEW! University of Sydney Creative Arts Special Admissions Scheme. This scheme rewards students on talent rather than academic ranking and students can get early offers based on their portfolio. 
• University of Sydney Scholarships Workshop – Tuesday 6 August 2020, 5.00 pm-6.00 pm This is a practical session about the Sydney Scholars Award to work through tips and examples for scholarship applications. 
• HSC Preparation Courses for Year 10 to Year 12 students with the Centre for Continuing Education – University of Sydney. Students can access a range of HSC subjects for course preparation.

TAFE early entry degrees

Bachelor of 3D Art and Animation
Bachelor of Applied Commerce
Bachelor of Community Services 
Bachelor of Design – Interior Design
Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and Care (Birth – 5)
Bachelor Fashion Design
Bachelor of Information Technology (Network Security)
Bachelor of Information Technology (Data Infrastructure Engineering)
And more here 

(Source jobjump.com.au July 2020)

Invitation – Online Speaker Series

Voting closes today

Parents & Friends

Ruby Berkovic & Jen Opit.

Hi Everyone,

We hope you are all keeping safe and dry.

Parent & Friends meeting

Our next Parent & Friends Meeting is this upcoming week on 4 August 2020. The meetings are being held on Zoom until restrictions are lifted. Everyone is welcome – the more the merrier!

If you are interested in attending please let us know so we can advise of the Zoom link on the day

Entertainment Books

In case you want to order an Entertainment Book, you can do so here 

Upcoming events

We will have some more info about this term’s events soon so watch this space.

Weekend brain teaser

What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it?

Have a great weekend,

Jen & Ruby

Thank You

Thank you to our PSG volunteers this week:

Recipe of the Week

Each week we’ll bring you a tasty recipe passed down by Emanuel families, from the Emanuel School Community Cookbook, The Family Meal. 

From the kitchen of Leigh Goldberg
Roast vegetable couscous with hummus dressing

Ingredients

Roasted Vegetables:
2 zucchini, sliced
1 eggplant, diced
2 capsicums, 1 red, 1 yellow, sliced into strips
2 handfuls button mushrooms
2 red onions, quartered
1/4 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper

Lemon couscous:
2 cups couscous
1/2 lemon (juice and zest)
2 tbsp olive oil
2 cups boiling water
Salt and pepper

Dressing:
1/2 cup hummus
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp water
Salt and pepper
1 handful parsley, chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 180⁰ C

Place vegetables in a single layer in a roasting pan with the olive oil. Mix together until they are coated. Season generously with salt and pepper.

Roast vegetables in the oven for 50 – 60 minutes, turning every 20 minutes to ensure they are browned and cooked through. Allow to cool to room temperature.

In the meantime, put couscous into a large bowl and combine with lemon juice and zest, olive oil, salt and pepper. Add two cups of boiling water and mix together. Place a tea towel over the bowl for 5 minutes. Fluff the couscous with a fork and taste to check seasoning.

Mix all the dressing ingredients together in a bowl.

Pile the couscous into a serving dish, place room temperature vegetables on the top, add some parsley leaves (optional) and drizzle with hummus dressing and cracked black pepper.

Serves 6 – 8