During JNF Week in March 2016, when Carmel鈥檚 Year 6 students were in Kindy, they planted a JNF Tree in the school鈥檚 Eco Playground, to provide shade and also as a symbol of JNF WA鈥檚 partnership with the families of Merchav Am.听Last Friday, the students and their Kindy Tree demonstrated how much they had grown at a special presentation at the Year 6 Valedictory. When the JNF tr ...

Jewish Studies

In January 2018, Jewish Studies teacher, Debbie Posner was part of JNF Australia鈥檚 first ever Educator鈥檚 Tour to Israel. Ever since attending the tour, Debbie committed to a Tzedakah project for JNF and enlisted all her students and their parents to partake in 鈥渕aking the desert bloom鈥�. At the end of each year, Nikki Leib, JNF鈥檚 Donor Relation鈥檚 Manager, is invited to the scho ...

Jewish Studies

Mazal tov Kai Kai felt a bit nervous before his Bar Mitzvah, but also super excited, as he had been practising for over a year for the occasion. Everyone at the Shule has been very supportive of Kai and his learning 鈥� the Rabbi was fun and caring, with great jokes to liven the mood. Kai loved the proud look on his parents鈥� faces and seeing his friends and described having ever ...

Jewish Studies

Abby explained that the plan had originally been to share a Bat Mitzvah with Zehava, but this didn鈥檛 quite work out. Abby鈥檚 mum spent much of Friday setting up for her Bat Mitzvah and made some beautiful pastel pink decorations鈥� she also prepared all the catering herself. Abby enjoyed Shule on Friday night, and then had a delicious three-course Shabbat dinner with her family at ...

Jewish Studies

鈥淪o, are all the teachers winding down and finishing up?鈥�, I was asked last week by a friend who is clearly not involved in education. I realised afterwards that I might have overdone my response a little and could even be said to have indulged in a little rant. I was keen to stick up for teachers who are very much still working hard to ensure learning takes place until the ver ...