Monday was a beautiful day for our Junior School Inter-House Athletics Carnival. It was wonderful to see the students’ excitement, especially from our Preppies who were participating for the first time! Relays encouraged our students to work together as a team while the individual events asked students to push themselves to beat their personal best. […]
Thank you to everyone who has generously donated stationery supplies that will be shipped to children, families and educators in the Arava Council region to assist with supporting evacuees from the southern region. By doing so, you have made a meaningful contribution to so many children and affected families. Shortly we will be sending the
This week we marked the Shloshim for those murdered in the Hamas atrocities of October 7. It has been such a trying month for all in our community. From the shock and disbelief at the scale and depravity of the terrorist attacks, the deep-seated worry for the hostages, the global surge in antisemitic rhetoric and
This week our Year 4 students conducted an egg drop experiment and it was a complete hit! Using their knowledge of competing forces, including gravity and air resistance, their task was to use a range of materials to build a safe house (with parachute) for their egg. They then dropped their eggs from a height.
The Year 7 cohort decided to hold a bake sale to raise money for Israel. This took place at the back of the mansion on Friday, 27 October 2023. A setup team consisting of a small group of enthusiastic year 7 students, who were guided by Lesley and Miss Samachetty, created a delicious display of
hroughout this semester of Year 7 Humanities, students worked very hard tackling the difficult problem of climate change and how our cities can be designed to sustainably manage the needs of a growing population while reducing our carbon footprint. In groups, students researched, designed and built models of sustainable cities of the future. Each city
It has now been almost a month since the dreadful terrorist attacks on Israel of October 7. At the time of writing, Hamas is still holding around 242 hostages captive in Gaza. The vast majority of these are civilians and the Israeli government believes that 138 of the hostages also hold foreign passports. The truth
Last Friday the Year 11 Geography class made their way to Belgrave and visited Puffing Billy as a part of their case study on sustainable tourism. They spent the morning with Education Officer Peta Howard and Marketing Executive Ashley Woodrow who talked to the class about various environmental and social impacts of tourism. The class
We have been holding letter writing sessions in the J-Life space where students can write to IDF soldiers and/or to the residents of the communities near Gaza. These letters show our love and support for the people of Israel. We are heartened that, alongisde letters from other Jewish schools, our letters were distributed to IDF
We have set up an empty Shabbat table at the Magid campus. This Shabbat table has been constructed as a reminder of the more than 200 hostages currently being held in Gaza by Hamas. We leave the seats empty as a symbol of the hostages who are unable to attend Shabbat with their loved ones.
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