Lag b'Omer at school
MORIAH Preschools celebrated Lag b’Omer with a teddy bear’s picnic, craft activities, dances and songs. Academy BJE held a family fun day at Parramatta Synagogue to…
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schools Students meet robot
MORIAH College Year 6 pupils made friends with a fully-functional computer-age robot, Algatron, designed to handle menial household chores. Algatron, able to walk, talk, sing and dance, was…
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MORIAH King David Prep Year 1 pupils are growing and maintaining a vegetable garden as part of their science studies. They have already harvested beans and radishes, while silver beet, parsnips, broccoli, carrots, tomatoes and butter beetroot are growing strongly…
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STAFF at Yeshiva Primary School have begun implementing a fitness program for all pupils in Years 3-6. Each afternoon, the classes rotate to…
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Masada College Year 1 pupils visited Blue Gum Farm as part of a program on food…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Holiday Fun It's school holiday time! What can you do with the kids?
THE end of June is fast approaching. For parents, that means school holidays are looming on the horizon. Two weeks (June 30-July 11) of running all over…
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EMANUEL School Year 2 pupils visited the School of Optometry at Sydney University. They had their eyes tested, tried on glasses and did visual activities and experiments. They were also given a talk about the function of the eye…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →this week Victoria helps schools lure South Africans
THE Victorian Government has provided a $60,000 grant to help Melbourne’s Jewish dayschools attract Jewish families from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →school sport David wins Mount Sinai athletics
DAVID was the winning house at the recent Mount Sinai College athletics carnival. Every pupil participated in the carnival, but four came away as school champions. Simon Platt took the…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →schools Moriah population up 25 percent in five years
MORIAH College enrolments have increased by 25 percent to 1460 in the past five years, from a base which made Moriah already the largest Sydney Jewish dayschool, college president Stephen Rothman told the school’s annual meeting…
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VAUCLUSE Public School Year 3 and 4 Hebrew and Italian pupils visited the Burger Centre recently, periorming for Burger Centre visitors through Hebrew and Italian song.p…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →schools The Insect Play
MASADA College drama students performed The Insect Play recently. The play, a satirical analogy by the Brothers Capek, explores the parallels between the insect and human worlds. Love, life and death, survival of the fittest and the quest for domination were portrayed in a provocative manner. Butterflies satirised life’s triviality and the pursuit of pleasure; beetles personified selfishness and egocentricity; and ants…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →schools Teachers at BJE inservice
ACADEMY BJE has commenced a program of professional development for Hebrew and Jewish Studies teachers. Educators from all dayschools, Sunday centres and Academy BJE staff are welcome. Term Two inservices, held at Academy BJE’s Pedagogic Centre, included the topics ‘Teaching Shabbat”, presented by Rabbi Haim Perez and Liora Sack, “Teaching Contemporary Jewish Issues”, presented by Peta…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Call to send 15 teachers to Israel
SECULAR teachers at Jewish dayschools need a better understanding of the importance of Jewish tradition and the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Anti-racism comic hits high schools
AN anti-racism comic book, Taki[?] a Stund will be distributed to high schools and TAFE colleges throughout Australia in a bid to tackle racial vilification and harassment in the schoolyard…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Yeshiva pupils jump rope
YESHIVA pupils have spent the past two months jumping rope for heart in a bid to raise funds for the Heart Foundation. The children were…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →schools Compiled by Sharon Labi Grandparents' Day
MASADA College Year 3 pupils celebrated Grandparents’ Day by singing their grandparents’ favourite songs. The children also recited a book, My Grandma with dramatisation and dress-up. Grandparents joined…
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YEAR 12 Kambala High student Danielle Feller has been selected for the NSW Debating team to compete at the national championships in Perth later this month. Debating teaches one to think on one’s feet and to structure an argument, the 3-unit English student observed. Danielle has been debating since Year 7. She also enjoys netball, basketball and gymnastics…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →maccabiah tragedy Schools mobilise to counsel students
DOZENS of social workers and counsellors were mobilised last week to offer guidance and support to school students and staff affected by the Maccabiah Games bridge…
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