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Our Year 11 Shorashim travellers returned late on Tuesday evening last week, tired and happy to be home after the fabulous trip Mr Lawrence had organised for them. I understand Tasmania was beautiful and the conference with four other schools鈥� Jewish students in Sydney was a great learning experience. So much of what we do successfully hinges on connectedness and being able to ...

There is definitely an end of year feeling starting to creep in, as the weather warms up, the exam season is upon us and we experience the 鈥渓ast鈥� of a number of activities for this year. As I write, the Year 11 students are enjoying their alternative Shorashim tour in Tasmania, the Year 12s are writing their final exams and the Year 10s have started their exam period, with Eng ...

Perseverance This week we saw the result of great perseverance. In 2002, I was lucky enough to teach the Year 5/6 L.E.A.P. class (Learning Enrichment Activities Program). It involved a small group of students and the exciting brief to challenge and enrich their learning with whatever projects we wanted to work on. Our 鈥楶layground Project鈥� was an authentic learning experience ...

It鈥檚 always a pleasure showing external people around the School and yesterday was no different, as the sun shone and during the various wanderings around the two campuses, I was able to take the time to step back and view just some of the things that our Carmel students were involved in. It made me very proud as well as grateful for what we enjoy at Carmel. Seeing what was goi ...

A valedictory is a farewell address. It enables us to say 鈥榞oodbye鈥� to you as you leave 国标麻豆视频APP which, for many of you, has been the only school you鈥檝e ever known. I am confident that your time here has been a time of learning. A time of asking curious questions, discovering passions and challenging yourselves, both academically and personally. A time of embracing new ex ...

With the end of term well within sight, it鈥檚 time for students and staff alike to plan how they will spend the two-week break. I find that if I am to make the most of my time away from school, I have to think ahead and make conscious decisions about what I鈥檓 going to do. As the weather warms up, there should be plenty of chances to spend time outdoors 鈥� something which I increa ...

Volunteering I was lucky enough last week to be offered my first tour of Maurice Zeffert Home (MZH) by Sharon Cherny, the Wellbeing Manager. It鈥檚 only a short walk from my office so I didn鈥檛 get too wet in the rain, and I brought along Mr David Williams, our new Director of Communications and Enrolments. I didn鈥檛 really know what to expect, but I am now such a fan 鈥� it genuin ...

The introduction in August of legislation regarding the right to disconnect from work has caused much discussion in various schools and other workplaces; listening to people鈥檚 opinions on the new laws has been fascinating. The wording of the legislation (accessible on the Fair Work Ombudsman鈥檚 website) explains that 鈥淭he right to disconnect protects employees who refuse to mon ...

Last weekend, I had the privilege of attending the ZFA Jewish Educators' conference at Mount Scopus in Melbourne, together with a team of Carmel Jewish Studies staff. The experience was quite different from my first ZFA conference two years ago, when everything was new, every idea was surprising and I knew nobody. This time I was fully aware of what to expect and was looking fo ...

Public speaking is one of those skills which is so important in many spheres, yet daunting to many people. Some of us have genuinely struggled with it over the years and practise for many hours before every speech, enduring feeling sick the night before and boasting dangerously elevated heart rates as we stand to speak. Watching others speaking publicly is much more fun and ha ...