From the Principal

Andrew Watt – Principal

A Special Chavayah Program

For the first time in the School’s history, we will be taking two year groups to Israel for our custom-designed cultural immersion program. Our Year 10 students will participate in a 6-week program, commencing on Tuesday 22 November 2022 and will join us, albeit briefly, for our High School Speech Day event. Our 4-week Year 11 program will commence on Monday 5 December 2022. Understandably, this has been a huge logistical challenge and we are grateful to Kobi Bloom and Stacey Rosenfeld, for their work in organising our complex and magnificent timetable of events. Our students are fortunate to have an experienced and caring team of teachers, to share their adventures with, including Kim Slender, Margaret Lowe, Eytan Messiah, Jessica Shanahan, Erika Ktalav, Eli Hajun, Emily Lawrence, Maya Buhrich, Caroline Laumberg, Daphna Levin-Kahn and Kobi Bloom.

For many students, the Chavayah Program is a once in a lifetime and unique opportunity, to experience an overseas trip, along with a large number of their peers for an entire six (or four!) weeks in the one country, travelling from top to bottom. Chavayah has been designed as an intense educational (rather than a tourist) experience, where students receive expert teaching about Israel’s history, customs, geography and politics, provided by Israeli educators. What makes the program so special, however, is the fellowship and the sense of community that builds, as the students eat, sleep and learn together, as one unified group. Chavayah offers an amazing opportunity to go beyond seeing the markets and eating falafel. There will be opportunities to dive deeply into the story of the Jewish people and emerge at the end of Chavayah with a better idea of how each student fits in – and what Israel and its shared history means to them. There will no doubt be times that they will annoy each other, especially as they become a little tired and grumpy through lack of sleep – but they will bring home with them great memories of their time together

I am aware that there are a small group of students, who for various reasons are unable to attend Chavayah. We will be asking that those students who participated on Chavayah share their journey with them and include them, upon their return. For they are one year group, and that is what Emanuel menshes do.

Our Year 10 and 11 students are all too aware that they will be ambassadors for Emanuel. When Alexander Muss International staff meet them and when they come in contact with guest presenters and visit different sites, they will be representing Emanuel School. If they are polite and kind to other, and if they clean up after meals and volunteer for chores, this will not only reflect well on their character, but also on the reputation of our School. And in Israel, Emanuel School is regarded highly, for the quality of students who participate in the program. Every year we receive very positive feedback on the attitude and behaviour of our students and the way our staff care for the students.

Celebrating our success in debating

There is no doubt that debating is a strength within our school. Our students are not averse to respectfully challenging assumptions and developing and presenting sound, well-supported arguments for their case. The introduction of our neatly trimmed beard policy for senior students is one such case!

In recent years, our debating teams have performed very well, in both the HICES competition and the JA Thompson History Debating competition. We have become a force to be reckoned with, across the Independent School sector and our reputation has grown. For the second year running, our High School debating teams have progressed to the semi-finals of the JA Thompson competition, with our Year 12 team losing narrowly and our Year 10 team defeating SCEGGS Darlinghurst, to progress to the grand finals.

We wish Gabriella Freed, Ella Sherman, Tamarah Aaron, Alice Milner and Yael Rembach every success in the final match of the season! Our thanks to Max Friend, History Debating Coordinator, for his support of our History Debaters.

Mazal Tov

• To Gil Banna, Noah Revelman (Year 7), Gideon Owen and Daniel Zipser (Year 8) who competed in the recent Australian Problem Solving Mathematical Senior Olympiads, receiving amazing results and finishing in the top 10%.
• To Tamar Granot (Year 6) and Daniel Zipser and Dylan Vitek (Year 8) who are finalists in the 2022 Head On Photographic Festival. 

Quote of the Week

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.” Margaret Hefferman

From the Head of Jewish Life

Adina Roth – Head of Jewish Life

The first Bar Mitzvah; a near-death experience
Parshat Vayeira

Did you know that the first ‘Bar Mitzvah’ in the world involved a near-death experience?  When we think of Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah today, we think of young people standing up to read from the Torah and recite a d’var torah. Granted the ages of 12/13 can be a semi-awkward time in  the life of a tween…your voice is breaking or you might feel self-conscious for a whole lot of reasons. Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah today might feel scary and might be a lot of hard work, but it isn’t something that one would call dangerous!

So what was this first ‘Bar Mitzvah’ experience, and what made it so dangerous?

In this weeks’ parsha, Vayeira, we read how Sarah and Avraham finally give birth to their son Yitzchak. Avraham already has a son, Yishmael with the maidservant Hagar, and so the family of one husband, two wives and two sons ‘settle’ into ancient family life. It’s a complicated family arrangement and it isn’t long before Sarah looks out and sees that the dynamic between Yishmael and Yitzchak isn’t very kosher. The word that is used in the Torah is metzachek – Yishmael is being ‘metzachek’ with Yitzchak. Coming from the root tzchok which is laughter, metzachek is translated as mocking. Seeing this, Sarah is filled with anger and tells Avraham to expel Hagar and Yishmael.

Mocking is not nice… or kind. But one might wonder why Sarah feels so strongly about what Yishmael was doing. Rashi, the 11^th century commentator from Provence elaborates by suggesting that  Yishmael took Yitzchak to the field and told him, ‘I am the firstborn, I will receive the double inheritance,’ and then shot at Yitzchak with his bow and arrow. Rashi’s explanation helps us understand what was going on between the two boys a little more. There was jealousy and competition. Yishmael was technically the elder of the two but his mother was the maidservant. Yitzchak may have been the younger, but his mother was the ‘main mama’, the more powerful wife. Yishmael feels that inferiority and he naturally wants to assert himself, he wants the rights of the firstborn, and he seeks to put his little brother down. Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand picks up on this jealous dynamic between the two brothers. She points out that metzachek is the exact same Hebrew shoresh/root as Yitzchak. She puts it succinctly when she says, Yishmael was Isaacing Isaac, trying to copy him, be him, occupy his place. 

 As it happens, Sarah will have none of this and after some struggle, Avraham sends Hagar and Yishmael away with little more than some bread and water.

The water runs out quickly and Yishmael and Hagar become weak. Yishmael is on the verge of death when his mother places him under a tree saying ‘I can’t bear to see the death of my child.’ She steps away and cries. It’s at this moment that an angel appears to Hagar and says to her, ‘Hagar, do not be afraid, come and give this child water for I will be making him into a great nation.’ Hagar suddenly sees things differently and a well of water appears before her. She gives water to her son and we read ‘Vayigdal hayeled- the lad grew up!’  We are then told that Yishmael and his mother lived in the desert, he became an archer and eventually, he got married.

It is the words ‘vayigdal, he grew up,’ that leads modern academic scholars to suggest that Yishmael’s experience in the desert was a kind of ancient, initiatory rite, a challenge that took him towards profound danger which he survived and   from this near death moment, he takes a massive leap towards growing up.  But there seems to be a deeper message than near death survival in the encounter with the angel.

Yishmael had been besieged by jealousy and comparison. He had wanted to ‘out-Isaac’ Isaac, to be him and better than him,  and he had lost who he was in the process. As harsh as it seems, perhaps Sarah realised that it wasn’t healthy for either of these boys to be in this competitive and comparative space.  But in the desert, the angel offers a profound message  regarding Yishmael. The message is quite literally, ‘you will be great!!’ There is a destiny…for you! You have your own story, your own life to live. In modern terms it was as if the angel was saying to Yishmael, ‘YOU DO YOU!’ Or, ‘be yourself!’

This is not dissimilar to what barmi and batti kids are grappling with, questions of identity, who am I, how do I shape up to the world around me, to my friends, to internal and external expectations?!

While we might be extremely grateful that our Jewish rituals do not require a near-death or dangerous experience of any kind, the deeper message Yishmael learned remains deeply relevant. He started off trying to be just like, or better than, his brother. And the story ends with him learning that it’s OK for him to be himself. And so Yishmael grows up, becomes an archer, lives in the wilderness of Paran, and eventually gets married.

A near death experience with a happily ever after, after-all!

Shabbat Shalom!

Family Journeys

Year 7 Shorashim Evening

The Year 7 Students presented their Shorashim Projects on Wednesday 26 October 2022. The Shorashim Project is a major task that all Year 7 students undertake during Jewish Studies lessons. שָׁורָשִׁים translates in English to “Roots”, and in this project students are required to dive deep into their families’ heritage. Interviewing family members of different generations, discovering interesting information and learning about your family’s journey, are just some of the many tasks students were set to complete.

On Shorashim Evening, students, parents, grandparents, teachers, and any other family and friends were invited to join an introduction webinar where everyone was welcomed, and the events of the night were outlined and explained in detail. Following the webinar, everyone was invited to take a look at the students’ online versions of their Shorashim Project Albums. Finally, students were divided into their tutor groups, and furthermore split into 2 groups of approximately 10 families. From here, the designated teacher presented the short videos that students had created. These videos consisted of pieces of information from their Shorashim Project and reflections on their Shorashim journeys.

On behalf of the whole of Year 7, we would like to thank Ms Levin-Kahn for directing the Shorashim evening and helping throughout the process. Our in-class teachers Morah Goldberg, Mr Hajun, and Morah Gaida were so helpful, providing us with one-on-one assistance with our projects. A huge thanks to all our parents and grandparents for adding to our knowledge and understanding of our family histories and stories and helping us with the project. Todah rabbah to Mr Case and all the teachers who came to help on the Shorashim night: Mr Peacock, Ms Selinger, Morah Harvey and Morah Heitner and technical support staff Mr Carpenter, Ms Esra and Ms Starkey. Thanks so much for a wonderful experience and an excellent night!

If you missed the Shorashim Evening, wish to watch or explore it again or view another group’s session, you will be able to access the Shorashim Project Website via your child’s school login for the next few weeks to view the albums and watch the recordings, after which the site will be unpublished on Monday 28 November 2022.

Shorashim Screen Shot Rashi 1 – Hajun

Shorashim – Screen Shot Meir 2 – Levin-Kahn

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Shorashim Online Event Home Page

By Sam Carpenter, Eli Jocum and Noah Sherman

Primary News

Joshua Aghion – Co-ordinator of Innovation (K-6)

Keeping Safe Online

Research from the eSafety commission completed in 2020 found that approximately 30 percent of young people are contacted by strangers online. Anecdotally, this seems accurate for students at Emanuel School in as early as Year 3. Each term, in ICT and general class lessons, teachers at Emanuel work on building online safety skills. In the Early Years, we look at being safe, respectful and responsible when engaging in online behaviour, monitoring how long we are on devices and checking how we are feeling. In the Upper Primary years, we spend many lessons exploring the concepts of talking to strangers online, being exposed to unwanted material and what to do if something goes wrong. 

One aspect of the teaching programs at Emanuel is giving students an opportunity to share their experiences and hearing their voice. A common theme in these lessons is that the experiences of the students are relatively similar. Many of our students are being contacted on their phones, whilst playing games like Minecraft or Roblox or on their personal accounts by people that they don’t know. This is also becoming more popular in news reporting as we manage data breaches and privacy online.

Richard Culatta, the CEO of ISTE (The International Society of Technology Education) reported in his recent book titled: ‘Raising for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World’ (Available at Randwick Library as an eBook and AudioBook) that there are five main qualities that children require to thrive in the online world: 

1. Be balanced: understand when and how much tech use is healthy; 
2. Stay informed: discern between true and false information; 
3. Be inclusive: treat others with respect and kindness online; 
4. Be engaged: use tech to strengthen family relationships and community connections; 
5. Stay alert: exercise caution and create safe digital spaces for others.

In his informative text, Culatta refutes the idea of keeping children away from technology to keep them safe and compares it to teaching children about road safety by keeping them inside, but we don’t let them in the car without a seatbelt. 

School Programs

Online safety forms part of our PDHPE program and is taught each and every year. We follow a progression of knowledge as student’s awareness and online capabilities increase. At school, we use the terminology of being safe, respectful and responsible in our school expectations and these are echoed online. We try to make students aware of possible areas of attention as well as providing them the skills to display resilience and conscientiousness online. Of course, more information and education is needed and we feel that this is best when communicated at home as well as at school.

What You Can Do

So, in a world where it is hard to keep children away from technology and the skills of our students are expanding exponentially when using their devices, what can we do?

The best place to go and the first point of information when seeking help is the eSafety Commissioner; www.esafety.gov.au. The parent tab up the top is filled with information to help families set routines and expectations around the use of technology as well as a helpful guide to apps and games that kids are using with more information for you. There is also a helpful eSafety Parent Book to stay up to date with best practice.

You could possibly start by looking at 5 tips to keeping your family safe online.

For students in K-2, we highly recommend the Mighty Heroes series by the eSafety Commissioner which offers short videos looking at many of these concepts in a really engaging way. 

Technology that can support us

Technology itself has progressed recently and offers parents new opportunities for supporting children online.

Google Families is a wonderful application which allows you to monitor your children’s use online if they have an android phone. Through the use of a Google Account, families can set screen limit times, talk about safety in posting and even keep track of student’s wearabouts. 

If you are using an Apple phone Family Sharing on iPhone will allow you to monitor screen times and provide you a breakdown of which apps and programs your children are using.

If you would like to continue this conversation, please feel free to email Joshua Aghion (Innovation Coordinator K-6).

Year 6 Fun Day – A Huge Success

Last Friday, our Year 6 students hosted a highly successful Fun Day where they ran stalls that students from K-5 enjoyed throughout the day. Students in K-5 enjoyed face painting and hair sprays, ping pong, pick a duck, hit the cups, ball throwing, balance beam, obstacle courses and many more. The Fun Day raised $$3,943.00. We look forward to working with Year 6 to select a project for them to fund as a legacy.

It was great to see how well Year Six students worked together to make sure that all of the students had fun. Each student who participated in a game was eligible to win a raffle which was picked at the end of the day.

Thank you to the Year Six families who donated prizes as they were very well enjoyed and appreciated. Congratulations to Year Two who won the most amount of prizes.

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End of Year Events 

As the busy end of the year rolls around, I thought it would be helpful to remind you of the timing of the major, compulsory events coming up:

Aladdin Show 1
Sunday 20 November 2022 – 4.00 pm start.
Students who are not in the main cast are asked to be at school at 3.00 pm. The doors open at 3.45 pm.

Aladdin Show 2
Monday 21 November 2022 – 6.00 pm start.
Students who are not in the main cast are asked to be at school at 5.00 pm. The doors open at 5.45 pm.

Aladdin Show 3
Tuesday 22 November 2022 – 6.00 pm start .
Students who are not in the main cast are asked to be at school at 5.00 pm. The doors open at 5.45 pm.

Year 6 Pathways and Graduation
Wednesday 2 December 2022 – 8.10 am start.
Students are to arrive at 7.50 am and parents asked to be seated at 8.00 am.
Full school uniform to be worn by all Year 6 students.

K-2 Presentation Day
Wednesday 7 December 2022 – 8.45 am start.
Students arrive at school at the usual time in full school uniform. Please ensure long hair is tied back. School shoes are a part of this uniform and boys should wear a kippah.
Parents are invited to be seated at 8.30 am and the event will begin at 8.45 am.

3-6 Presentation Evening
Wednesday 7 December 2022 – 6.00 pm start.
Students arrive at school at 5.40 pm in full school uniform. Please ensure long hair is tied back. School shoes are a part of this uniform and boys should wear a kippah.
Parents are invited to be seated from 5.40 pm and the event will begin at 6.00 pm.

Natanya Milner – Head of Primary School

Aladdin Jnr

We are so excited for our Aladdin Jnr performances and look forward to seeing you all. Now that there has been some time for everyone to purchase tickets, we have lifted the number limit and you are welcome to increase your number of tickets per family. We understand that the evening performances can be tiring and we are therefore allowing a late start on Wednesday 23 November. Whilst children are welcome to arrive at the usual time, we ask that all students are on campus by recess at 10.50 am.

I am aware that the seating is not allocated and therefore there will be some possible pressure to enter the room. I am hoping we can all be respectful of each other and the staff at this time. The doors will not open until 15 minutes before showtime. Approximately 20 minutes before the start time, we will ask guests to line up at the doors with their tickets ready to be shown to staff.

We are so pleased to announce that the canteen will be open before the show so you will be able to enjoy Yaffa and Ariel’s delicious food!

Last Minute Hat Purchasing

As summer approaches, we have become vigilant about hat wearing. We are particularly concerned about students in Years 4-6 who do not have hats for Thursday afternoon sport. I have recently organised for a small number of hats to be on campus so that parents can pay for these and the child can have the hat immediately. Please note that we will not be contacting parents for this to happen, but you are welcome to contact us on eatoprimary@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au. We only have a small number and will monitor the supply, but it may be that they could run out and take us a few days to restock.

Ma Koreh

Adam Carpenter – Head of Jewish Life Primary

Year 2 students and their accompanying adults joined together on Friday morning for a newly designed Pathways Siddur Presentation Ceremony. The morning began with a siddur scrapbooking workshop, which provided a special opportunity for students to sit with their accompanying adult to personalise the siddur. Together they composed their own blessing of gratitude which was placed in the siddur and parents shared a special blessing they wrote for their child. 

After some time scrapbooking together, creating pages for the siddur that combined Jewish symbols, values and personal reflections, parents formally presented the siddur to their child, reciting the Birkat Banim, the traditional blessing over the children. With their new siddur, students were able to then locate the Shema and recite it for their parents.

This siddur will be used as part of Year 3-6 morning tefillah and students will now spend time before the end of term familiarising themselves with it.

Following the workshop, everyone gathered together for a joyous Shabbat celebration led by Morah Bar-On and with musical accompaniment by Joshua New. 

Todah Rabah to Morah Martine and Morah Miri for creating and running the scrapbooking workshop.

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Mind Your Language

Kornmehl

Terry Aizen – Director of Kornmehl

National Recycling Week

National Recycling Week was established by Planet Ark in 1996. It is held every year during the second week of November (Monday 7 November 2022 – Sunday 13 of November 2022).

This year, National Recycling Week explores the idea that Waste isn’t Waste until it’s Wasted. We have been thinking about how to give resources a second life, how to reduce the need for newly produced resources, and of course, recycling. This year is not about recycling more but recycling better. Reducing our waste not only keeps valuable materials out of landfill, but it also benefits the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Thinking that waste isn’t waste until it’s wasted also provides some valuable insight into how the recycling and resource management industry works in conjunction to your efforts.

In the Pre-school, we invited parents to plan with their children to make a Chanukiah using recycled materials. The parents will be coming into the Pre-school to complete their Chanukiot with their children. We are excited to see what they will make. 

We have also been sorting our huge collection of recycled lids into boxes, ready to be taken to Lids4kids Australia, a collective group of volunteers that advocates and facilitates the recycling of small plastic bottle lids into sustainable products.

Our thanks to Mrs Cara Franks (mum of James) who is our volunteer representative for Lids4Kids and who is helping us with this project.

Bug Hotels

Since the establishment of our Native Garden in Term 3, the children are now involved in looking after the garden, observing, and looking for creatures and other wildlife that have taken up residence in our native garden space, as well as making bug hotels for the creatures to live in. This week the children were involved in using an assortment of natural materials to create their beautiful and functional bug hotels. 

It was wonderful to watch them carefully and thoughtfully select natural materials to build their bug hotels. We are excited to learn about the eco-habitats that develop from this project.

Jim Kornmehl visits Kornmehl for Shabbat

On Friday we were lucky to have Jim and Jeany Kornmehl visit for Shabbat. We always love welcoming visitors into the Pre-school, but especially the Kornmehl family, as our wonderful Pre-school is named after the late Paul Kornmehl – Jim’s father. We are forever grateful to the Kornmehl family for their generosity over the last 23 years, since the Pre-school was established in 1999. 

Shabbat Project – One Shabbat Together

“This is the moment to recreate, reconnect and celebrate together as one community through the power of unity on Shabbat”

On Friday morning, Kornmehl was a hive and buzz of activity as children and parents engaged in a shared Challah bake as part of the Shabbat project weekend. The Pre-school smelt delicious as the challot baked in the oven, ready to go home with the children to enjoy at their Shabbat tables. Thank you to Jesse’s bakery for donating the challah dough for us to use for our Kornmehl challah bake.

In the lead up to the Shabbat project, we invited families to bring in one special Judaica object, for example, Kiddush cup, candlesticks, challah cover and chanukiah from the start of the week for the children to discuss and share with their group and to draw their special family Shabbat object from close observation. We have also noted the children’s special comments about the objects and what they mean in their family.

It has been wonderful so far to learn about each family’s Jewish history through the lens of your child:

Joseph: I brought a Chanukiah. I light the candles on Chanukah. I keep it on the sideboard.
Tamar: I brought in my kiddush cup. I use it on Shabbat. Wine gets poured in it.
Gigi: I brought in my challah cover, it’s a mat and we put it over the challah. We all say the blessing for the challah together when it’s Shabbat. We do Shabbat sometimes at home and sometimes at my grandma’s house.
Sam: My great great grandmother, Hadassah made this kippah. She knitted it. She lived in Israel.
Dean: This kippah is my dad’s. It’s special because it’s when my mum and dad got married. My dad wore it at his wedding.
Cleo: My great gramps used to make wine on Pesach. At my mum and dad’s wedding he made little bottles to give to every guest. Next year we are going to make some wine because he has passed away. It’s been in our house already more than 10 years.
Xander: This has been in my family for generations. It’s in my grandpa’s family. It’s a kiddush cup. It’s special because it’s in my family for years and years.
James: This is a kiddush cup. It’s from my daddy’s Barmitzvah. It has Hebrew writing also.

Burger Centre Visit

This week it was the Starfish groups turn to visit the Burger Centre. We eagerly walked out of the Pre-school gate and all the way to Kings Street in Randwick. The Starfish were so excited and not quite sure what to expect. The room was filled with lots of elderly people and smiling faces. Such an appreciative audience. The children all participated beautifully, singing songs, playing instruments, and delighting their appreciative audience, who sang along with us for many of the songs. Afterwards the children spent time introducing themselves to their new friends, swapping names and chatting. So many special moments and the dialogue shared by the elderly people was heart-warming. For many, it brought back memories of their own childhood, others shared with us that they used to be Pre-school teachers too and one beautiful Hungarian lady who was 101 years old spoke in Hungarian to Benjamin whose family are from Hungary.

Everyone’s bucket was filled to the top!! So much love and happiness in the room. And huge appreciation all round on both sides, a real win win for us all.

The presence of a young person can brighten up anyone’s day. Teaching the children to have empathy and an emotional connection to elderly members of our community builds their confidence, resilience, as well as feelings of worth and positivity. 

Jack: I loved singing the people songs because it made them happy.
Oscar: I felt good, and I loved everyone.
Ziggy: I was a bit nervous to meet the old people, but I tried my best. They felt happy with our singing. They were pretty nice.
Ella: I was a little bit afraid at the start, but I got better at being brave.
Sam: All of the people I went to told me their names and I told mine. They like seeing us. I felt good, the old people felt happy.
Harriet: I think they felt happy and proud. And I felt happy because we were singing and seeing the old people’s faces.
Talia: I felt happy because it was a mitzvah, because we did something good for someone.
Xander: We sang for the Burgers at the Burger Centre, and we introduced ourselves. I felt happy because singing to the old people makes me feel special.

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Fashion Forward

Sonia Newell – Development Officer – Alumni & Community Relations

Shabbat Project Sydney – this weekend

Remington Owen, Coordinator of Music Events and Music Teacher, Years 5 -12 at Emanuel and past student, Ben Adler, are performing tomorrow at “After Glow – the biggest Havdalah in the Southern Hemisphere” to end this year’s The Shabbat Project in Sydney.

Fashionable and Charitable

Sharon Aaron and Nicole Katz – Fashion Forward

Emanuel parent, Sharon Aaron, and her good friend Nicole Katz, both share a love of fashion, community and the environment. As the second wave of COVID hit, Sharon realised she had a wardrobe full of lovely clothes but nowhere to go to wear them. She wanted to do something that would help other women and so together with Nicole and her great social media skills and similar thoughts as Sharon, they formed “Fashion Forward”, a social enterprise with a conscience, designed to find new homes for preloved designer fashion. Over the past two years, they have saved an enormous amount of clothing from ending up in landfill, whilst raising more than $120,000.00 for Jewish Houses’s crisis care for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. Funds raised help these women and children for the first three months, to help pay for accommodation, social services and food. “Fashion Forward” was previously located in Kensington for 18 months until a few weeks ago when they moved to a pop-up shop at 97 Glenayr Avenue, Bondi which is open on Thursdays and Sundays from 12.00 pm – 4.00 pm. Sadly they are only at this shop until January and would love to find another site in Bondi after that – if any of our readers hear about such a site, please get in touch as they want to continue raising these much-needed funds. To ensure total transparency, Sharon and Nicole collect and then sell the clothes, with 100% of all monies from sales paid directly to Jewish House to help these women and children in need, irrespective of their religion.

You can also shop online on Instagram at 7.30 am on Wednesdays and Fridays.  As Sharon says, this initiative has allowed them to combine having fun with friends and new customers who also love to own beautiful clothes but cannot afford to buy them at the full retail price, at the same time as knowing that they are providing funds to support women and children in crisis.

If you have preloved designer labels such as Scanlan Theodore, Camilla & Marc, Sass & Bide, Bianca Spender, Jak + Jak, Bassike or Isabel Marant to donate, please contact Sharon directly on 0402 761 813 to arrange collection. Happy shopping!

Art For All Ages – Head On Photographic Festival 2022

Finalists in the Head On Student Awards, Bondi Promenade
Friday 4 November 2022 – Sunday 4 December 2022

Some of our readers may have already been down to Bondi Beach Promenade and seen some of the amazing entries in this year’s festival. In a message from Emanuel parent and organiser of Head On, Anita Schwartz, she says “Exhibitions are up, the Festival Launch is over, and winners have been announced.

Here are the details of the three Emanuel student finalists and their images:

Tamar Granot (Year 6) – Self Portrait – The Garden of Eden

Tamar says “Being selected for the Head On Photo Festival has been amazing! I am so proud as the only Primary student, that my photo is hanging there on the Bondi Promenade. All the other kids are in High School so that’s pretty cool. My photo is a self-portrait which I took a while ago, when my mum got a new phone. It was part of a series of photos I took during lockdown. Looking back now, I feel that I was so young and innocent when I took this photo, which inspired the name Garden Of Eden. I have always loved all kinds of art – I feel so lucky to have this experience!”

HeadOn 2022 Student Awards – Finalist – Tamar Granot

Daniel Zipser and Dylan Vitek (Year 8) – Find my heart

The image captures the iconic landscape of Clovelly Beach in Sydney just after dawn. The water is almost as flat and still as the concrete that borders it. The straight lines formed by the landscape and painted on the concrete resemble pathways. In the top left corner is a blue heart resting on the ground. The early morning swimmers are out, each in their own world, each out there to tend to their body and mind, and spirit. This is where they find their peace, their heart.

Dylan says “we found out about Head On from Daniel’s mother but the organisers daughter, Noa Rosenzveig is in our year. Clovelly Beach is a local beautiful natural location which we enjoy swimming in and wanted to capture its essence in our photograph. We took this photo as part of a collection which we can send you if you would like to see more”. The boys are pictured here standing alongside their photograph which is on display at Bondi Beach Promenade until Sunday 4 December 2022.

Dylan Vitek and Daniel Zipser with their photograph Find my heart

Other exhibitions including the Head On Portrait Awards are on at Paddington Reservoir Gardens Saturday 5 November 2022 – Sunday 20 November 2022, 10.00 am – 5.00 pm. The full program is online. 

ARTHOP 
Saturday 19 November 2022 – Sunday 20 November 2022

Emanuel past parents, Ruth Levine and Lia Klugman, are joining forces again with some other local artists for this year’s ARTHOP.   

Lia has come back to School on numerous occasions over the years to supervise ceramics activities with our Primary students, including to help create the mezuzzot on some of the classroom doors in the LINC building.

When you grow your hair long and keep playing the music you love

Three members of the band Before The King are Emanuel alumni – Gabriel Jammy, Daniel Radomsky and Dean Smuskovitz – all good mates from the Class of 2016 who played music together whilst still at school and continue doing so. They have just released dates for more of their concerts up until March next year.

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Head Madrich and a 20-year reunion

The Class of 2002 held their 20-year reunion last Sunday afternoon with a wonderful turnout of 36 past students. Head Madrichim Lara (Shneier) Shein and Ari Shammay, a current parent, along with everyone else spent hours reminiscing about their school-days and life beyond the Waxman Gates. Next year we will welcome to more members of this year group back to School as new parents with their own children starting here in Year K, whilst a number of others have their children on the waiting list for subsequent years.

Head Mads Class of 2002 at their 20 year reunion

Jewish Food and Farm Festival
Sunday 27 November 2022

Adamama Farm Manager, alumnus Mitch Burnie and everyone else at the Farm are getting very excited about this inaugural event.

• Learn about Fermentation with world renowned fermented guru Sandor Katz
• Healthy food relationships with Lyndi Cohen – The Nude Nutritionist
• Get baking with Lisa Goldberg and past parent Merelyn Chalmers
• Understand the farm to table exeprience of shakshuka with the married couple “The Gals” 
• Start thinking about the future of food and its ethics with Joanne Fedler, a past Emanuel parent and Laura Dalrymple, co-owner of Feather & Bone and author of The Ethical Omnivore.

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Call-out for Teen Volunteers for Friendship Circle (FC) Day Camp 
Monday 16 January 2023 – Friday 20 January 2023

For those who do not know, FC offers amazing programs for teens and young adults with disabilities and many of our senior students and alumni have been volunteers with this organisation for many years. We also have families in our own community whose children attend the camps as participants. The January week-long camp, based at Moriah College, will be packed with lots of fun activities, and a mix of incursions and excursions. This is a great opportunity to build on existing relationships and make new friends while having lots of fun during the school holidays.

As spots for both volunteers and participants fill quickly if your children are interested in volunteering, please tell them to register soon to avoid disappointment, and if you know families with children who would like to be participants, please pass these details on.

Teen Volunteers (ages 13-18 and in Years 7-12): click here to register
New volunteers: please also complete our Teen Volunteer Application

Participants
Juniors (ages 5-11): click here to register
Teens (ages 12-18): click here to register
New families: please also complete our Family Expression of Interest Form

Please email our Day Camp Coordinator Sophie Malek with any questions about Camp.

We look forward to sharing our news and yours, so if you have photos and/or news you would like to share with us, please send to Sonia Newell.  

Shabbat shalom, stay safe and have a great weekend.

Music Matters

Diana Springford – Head of Music

Welcome to our Music Matters page! 🎶

Instrument Maintenance Check Day
Tuesday 29 November  – Wednesday 30 November 2022
(Week 8)

If you are borrowing any school instrument, please bring it into the Music Department by 8.00 am on Tuesday 29 November 2022 (or on Wednesday, if you do IP on that day) to be checked and serviced by our team. Instruments on loan to K-2 strings players in ISP will be retained after their lesson in Week 7 for checking in Week 8. Regrettably, any instruments which are not serviced in our maintenance check will need to be taken by parents to be serviced at a music shop at their own expense. Students should pick up their instruments on Thursday unless they get an email from us or are returning them permanently.  Instruments should be clean and have a student name tag attached with the instrument barcode on the reverse. If this name tag is missing, please ask Mrs De Araujo in the music staffroom to label it for you.

End of Year 6 IP (Instrumental Program) and continuing Music Tuition in High School

For parents of Year 6 students who are coming to the end of the compulsory Instrumental Program, you have received an email about the return of your School-loaned instrument and your intentions regarding private music tuition and High School ensembles. Please reply to Joanne De Araujo

Dates and Events

Week 6

• Twilight Concerts (tutor-nominated performances) on Wednesday 16 November 2022.
• IP only is cancelled this week to enable Aladdin Jr rehearsals.

Week 7

• Aladdin Jr performances Sunday 20 November 2022, Monday 21 November 2022, Tuesday 22 November 2022 
• IP and ISP are on as normal.
• Early morning and late afternoon Primary School ensemble rehearsals on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are cancelled because of Aladdin Jr performances: Junior Chamber Choir, Bernstein & Gershwin Concert Bands, Year 6 Rock Band and Korngold and Rubinstein String Orchestras.

Week 8      

• Instrument Stocktake and Maintenance Days – see full details above.

Week 9

• Primary and High School end of year presentation events.

Private Music Tuition and Infant Strings Program

Thank you to those who have already advised us of changes to private tuition and Infant Strings Program (ISP) enrolments for next year via the online forms on our MusicPortal Page. The deadline for new enrolments or intention to discontinue for Term 1 is Friday 18 November 2022 (end of Week 6).  All students currently receiving private music tuition and students in Years K-1 who are currently participating in the Infant Strings Program will be automatically re-enrolled along with students commencing lessons for the first time. Formal discontinuation notice must be received to avoid being committed to the full term of lessons and liable for fees.

Please contact music@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au if you have any questions.  

The schedules for Term 1, 2023 will be created at the end of term and emailed in late January.

Careers

Claire Pech – Careers Advisor

We were delighted to host Prof Sweetapple, Head of Design at University Technology Sydney (UTS) to speak with our Year 12s last week. Her talk featured the work of current students at UTS in Product Design, Fashion Design and Visual Communications. We enjoyed her insights into the current Design courses at UTS, why they are considered one of the best Design Faculties in the country and their strong connections to both industry, best practice and impactful consequences.

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There have been some articles in the news recently about early offers, the future of the ATAR and whether universities need to change their processes based on some of these recent developments (all brought to a focus during COVID times). I follow these stories with interest as they directly affect our Year 12 students. 

This article addresses these developments over the past two years, the impacts they have had on our Year 12 students, and the ongoing impacts they have on university admissions. We are always told by UAC (the University Admissions Centre) that the ATAR is the most reliable indicator of future success at university and therefore the best entry method for university. When we see statistics of only a certain percentage of students being admitted to university based on their ATAR – what that means is that the ATAR was not used as as standalone. The ATAR was also used in conjunction with other factors e.g. adjustment factors (bonus points) for subject areas. Another example is that if most of our students get a Band 5 or 6 in English Advanced or Mathematics Advanced, they will be able to receive some adjustment factors. The universities then add these extra points to their ATAR to adjust their entry scores (selection rank) for entry to each course. As a result each student could end up with a different Selection Rank depending on which University they were applying for.

To work out these calculations, these links will help to do the sums:

• UNSW Subject Adjustments
• Macquarie University Subject Adjustments
• UTS Subject Adjustments
• Sydney University Subject Adjustments
• ACU Subject Adjustments

This is before we look at equity points for long term disadvantage – the Educational Access Scheme through UAC and also other specific schemes like Geographical schemes that give all students at Emanuel 5 automatic bonus points for Macquarie University for residing in Sydney.

Notices, Dates and Events

Australian Institute of Music Workshops in November down at the Rocks.

AIM | Entertainment Management Masterclass

Australian Institute of Music, The Rocks
https://aim.edu.au/events/entertainment-management-masterclass-make-music-fest/

AIM | Classical Masterclass
Australian Institute of Music, The Rocks
https://aim.edu.au/events/classical-masterclass-make-music-fest/

AIM | Music Theatre Workshop
Australian Institute of Music, The Rocks
https://aim.edu.au/events/music-theatre-workshop-make-music-fest/

AIM | Composition & Songwriting Workshop
Australian Institute of Music, The Rocks
https://aim.edu.au/events/composition-songwriting-workshop-make-music-fest/

AIM | Audio Workshop
Australian Institute of Music, The Rocks
https://aim.edu.au/events/audio-workshop-make-music-fest/

AIM | Musician Performance Workshop
Australian Institute of Music, The Rocks
https://aim.edu.au/events/musician-performance-workshop-make-music-fest/

University of Sydney | What is Economics?
Wednesday 7 December 2022
5.00 pm – 5.30 pm
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VJsbgkHAQref9MuzLvlMng

Year 13 – Dates for Preferences 

Please remember on results day I will be in the office to see students during that day in person or via zoom. Bookings will take place in the regular way via my calendar link here

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https://studyworkgrow.com.au/ November, 2022

Year 10 Drama Showcase

Aladdin Jnr

https://events.humanitix.com/aladdin

Hebrew Podcasting @ AFTRS

Daliah Smagarinsky

At the end of Term 3, the Year 9 and 10 Hebrew classes joined together to attend a professional podcasting and radio course at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) as a part of the Kol Ha-Ivrit/Yachad radio Hebrew program.

Here is Daliah Smagarinsky’s account of the experience:

‘Write for the ear, not for the eye’. This is the advice we were given.

It is important to pinpoint our audience and cater to them, we were told, and we were made aware of the need to create interest and engagement for our listeners.

Day 1
We discovered how best to record sound by getting close to the source of the sound and removing as much background noise as possible, and we got to practise and apply what we had learnt.

We then moved into the studios and learnt about the equipment and how to properly use it. I learnt a lot about the professional audio tools, and it was such a unique experience to have been fortunate enough to use it!

Day 2
We paired up and picked a topic to interview each other on. I was interviewed about my love of languages, and I interviewed my friend about her passion for baking. Our challenge was to create a set of questions that were engaging to the listener, yet informative enough to gain an understanding of the interviewee’s insight on the topic. We put our learning from Day 1 into practice, and the results were great!

Now to business! It was time to work on our podcasts that we had written back at school. After tweaking it a little, we implemented some techniques that we had learned at AFTRS and then it was time to record! It was so amazing to have experienced recording our podcasts in such a stunning space!

Editing can make or break a podcast. We had the chance to edit our podcast separately on a program called Audacity, where we were able to fine tune our recording and create a finished final product. Wow, that was tricky, but we are very proud of our podcasts. 

Here they are:

• Year 9 YaCHaD Podcast 2
• Year 10 Kol Ha-Ivrit Podcast 3

Going to AFTRS was an incredible experience that we are so lucky we had!

It was so much fun to spend the two days together as a group of Hebrew students, learning new skills to aid us in our radio course back at school. Thank you so much to our incredible teachers, Morah Harvey and Morah Heitner, as well as our teacher from AFTRS, Jess, for making this experience unforgettable! We can’t wait to expand our skills further next year!

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Problem Solving with Maths

Problem Solving Mathematical Olympiad Competition

This year Emanuel School took part in the Australasian Problem Solving Mathematical Olympiad Competition. This is an annual contest which has been operating since 1987. Every year, schools from all over Australia, New Zealand and other neighbouring countries take part. Approximately 70,000 students participated in 2022.

The Olympiads consists of five separate contests, held approximately six weeks apart between March and September. The overall aim is to encourage students to develop important mathematical problem solving skills in an enjoyable environment.

Emanuel School entered two teams from Year 7 and two teams from Year 8 who took part in the five contests all filled with challenging problem solving questions.

Try one of the problems for yourself:

A massive congratulations to all the participants. Emanuel students received some amazing results with almost 50% of students finishing in the top 25%. 

A massive congratulations to Gil Banna, Noah Revelman ( Year 7), Gideon Owen and Daniel Zipser (Year 8) who finished in the top 10%. All students were awarded their certificates and prizes during House Assembly.

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Scholarships Open 2024

White Ribbon Day

It is no easy feat when it comes time for the School Representative Council, or the SRC, to vote on a charity for a fundraiser. Of course, all SRC members have charity suggestions, all uniquely important, but after all, the SRC just gets to choose one. This time around, for the upcoming sausage sizzle on Monday, Week 6, the SRC partnered up with the Social Action Va’ad to raise funds for White Ribbon Australia.

White Ribbon Australia, founded in 2007, has roots dating back to 1991 when the White Ribbon Campaign began in Canada.

Founded by pro-feminists, the organisation begins to question what men are doing to end violence against women, using a white ribbon logo to symbolise men’s opposition to violence against women and activism against gendered violence.

Indeed, the White Ribbon Foundation plays an essential role in activism on the issue of gendered violence. With over one in four women experiencing emotional abuse by a current or previous partner since the age of 15 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2017), the charity runs an annual White Ribbon Day, where gender norms are being challenged this year. By tackling stereotypes of masculinity, safer environments can be created where men are not expected to conform to a norm but choose whom they want to be as people. In addition, this White Ribbon Day, the organisation aims to engage men in thinking about how they can change gendered violence. White Ribbon also hosts school and workplace talks that discuss the issue of violence against women and call on men to respond to it and how to do so.

All donations to White Ribbon encourage local activities in communities, promote school and workplace programs, and advocate for law reform. It also assists in developing online resources, which the organisation describes as an “essential starting point” to establish an understanding of violence against women and ways to prevent it.

The High School is trialling a new system to order for the upcoming sausage sizzle where all students needed to order online this week.

During the week, the SRC and Social Action Va’ad will also be hosting some activities at lunch:

• On Monday, a sausage sizzle will be held at lunch and gold coin donation collected.
• On Wednesday, there will be a documentary on incels and online violence shown at lunch. Interested students should go to B34.
• On Friday, white ribbons will be handed to students at the school entry.

If you would like to further support this important cause, please use the following link to donate to our event. 

By Kian Hamburger and Ella Hart 

A Celebration of Community

Justine Hofman – Head of P&F

We waited all year for it – and it was beyond worth it. Over 240 of us gathered at Glenworth Valley for a family camping weekend that was all about community, nature and learning that the only thing kids need to be happy is a big pile of dirt.

With a big emphasis on bringing our families together, we joined in a communal Kabbalat Shabbat and Havdalah. In between we enjoyed damper and s’mores, shakshuka cook-offs, river play, dirt play, cricket and soccer games – there was even an offering of Goulash that fed half the campers on Saturday afternoon.

Thank you to our fabulous committee who really put thought into encouraging everyone to get out of their comfort zone and connect with new families. The result was an even stronger and warmer sense of community.

On behalf of everyone who attended, biggest thanks to Mary Glikin, (committee head), Ilan Bloom, Rupil Ismin and Anita Clarke. You guys are wonderful and very much appreciated.

For all of you keen beans, put in the diary Friday 17 March 2023 – Sunday 19 March 2023 for the next camping weekend.

We also wanted to share lovely a poem written by the Franks family on the car ride home:

Camping Glenworth Valley 2022

There were marshmallows, s’mores, damper and more
Over fires, in bellies and dropped on the floor
There were giant dirt hills, freezing river dips, horses and bikes
Conquered, wrestled on, and taken on hikes

Amongst tent poles and instructions, unpacking and pitching
There was bonding and satisfaction, sharing and switching

Shabbat was welcomed with sparks of fire and song
Singing and swaying, we pledged to get along!

Day two we recovered from a cold, chilly night
Waking to bird song and the warm morning light

We enjoyed talent shows and gym sessions, a Hungarian feast
Chess games, ball games, or some banter at the least!

Nature was calling: cliffs and stars in open skies
Eucalypts, wildlife and sometimes ponderings about life’s ‘whys’

Bird song, kids voices, laughter, that one barking dog
Snoring, ear plugs, and for some, sleep like a log

Some showered, while others chose to embrace their natural state
With dirt everywhere, a nice home shower could wait

After birthdays, pancakes, sugar highs and crashes
The time has arrived, to leave Glenworth Valley, and make our home dashes

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Reminders and Dates for the Diary

• End of Year Staff Gift Collection – closes on Monday 21 November 2022. (refer to the email sent on Wednesday 2 November 2022)
• Fridays at 3.30 pm: Friday Chills
• Monday 28 November 2022: P&F Term 4 general meeting at 7.00 pm (note date change)
• Friday 17 March 2023 – Sunday 19 March 2023: Autumn family camping weekend

Holiday Trading Hours

The Emanuel Uniform Shop will close for the school holidays from Tuesday 13 December 2022 at 3.00 pm and will re-open for Term 1 on Monday 16 January 2023 at 9.00 am

All families must make an appointment to visit the Uniform Shop.

Extended Trading Hours 

Term 4 2022

• Friday 9 December 2022           9.00 am – 3.00 pm
• Monday 12 December 2022       9.00 am – 3.00 pm
• Tuesday 13 December  2022     9.00 am – 3.00 pm          

Term 1 2023

• Monday 16 January 2023 – Friday 20 January 2023          9.00 am – 3.00 pm
• Monday 23 January 2023 – Friday 27 January 2023          9.00 am – 3.00 pm
• Thursday 26 January 2023                                                  Closed (Australia Day)
• Monday 30 January 2023                                                     9.00 am – 3.00 pm
• Tuesday 31 January 2023 – Friday February 2023             8.00am – 5.00pm

Normal trading hours resume on Monday 6 February 2023

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

You are welcome to place an online order, passphrase is ES1983. Orders will be processed when the store re-opens on Monday 16 January 2023 at 9.00 am.

Contact details:

Phone: 9326 5445
Email:  emanuel@midford.com.au

PSG

Thank you to our volunteers for last week
(Monday 31 October 2022 – Friday 4 November 2022)

Saul Berkowitz, Ricky Friedlander, Eli Wine, Danielle Jaku Greenfield, Tal Harpaz, Gary Aaron, Wendy Strehlow, David Lavecky, Lara Levin, Mia Kalinko, Ian Kessell, Larry Narunsky, Peter Nothman, Andrew Nabarro, Michelle Masnick, Ronny Schnapp, Bob Kummerfeld, Alan Nathan, Alina Kirievsky, Benjamin Opit, Naomi Hersh, Neil Levin, Craig Forman and Tamar Kerlander.

Help keep our kids and community safe: sign up to PSG here

Important Dates

What’s happening next week

High School

Monday 14 November 2022

• BBQ and non-uniform Charity Day
• School Canteen closed 
• Year 10 Drama Showcase

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• Twilight Concert
• Year 7-12 Writers’ Awards

Primary School

Monday 14 November 2022

• BBQ Day
• School Canteen closed 

Sunday 19 November 2022

• Aladdin Jnr Show 1

Kornmehl

Monday 14 November 2022

• Playball – Starfish Open Session for Parents 

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 2023 New Parents Orientation/Information Evening 

Save the Date

High School

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• Sport and Extra-curricular Photo Day

Wednesday 30 November 2022 – Tuesday 6 December 2022

• Project Based Learning Days

Thursday 8 December 2022

• High School Speech Day
• Last Day of Term 4

Primary School

Monday 21 November 2022

• Aladdin Jnr Show 2

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• Aladdin Jnr Show 3

Friday 2 December 2022

• Year 6 Pathways and Graduation

Tuesday 6 December 2022

• Year 6 Gratitude Day – Sydney Aquatic Centre

Wednesday 7 December 2022

• Years K-2 Presentation Day
• Years 3-6 Presentation Evening

Thursday 8 December 2022

• Last Day of Term 4 

Kornmehl

Monday 21 November 2022

• Playball – Seashells Open Session for Parents

Thursday 24 November 2022

• Parent/Teacher Meetings

Thursday 1 December 2022

• Dolphins/Starfish Concert & Graduation 

Friday 2 December 2022

• Seashells Concert

Monday 5 December 2022

• Playball – Dolphins Open Session for Parents

Thursday 8 December 2022

• Bush School Family Picnic in Centennial Park
• Last Day of Term 4 

Community Notices