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It has been great to see so many students getting straight back into school life in this, our first full week of Term 2. The weather was perfect for our cross country on Wednesday, and it was fabulous to witness those who ran their hearts out and were clearly working to beat their personal best. Others took the opportunity to chat with friends as they power-walked the course an ...

Year 12 students, Dina and Ashri recently represented 69É«ÇéƬ at the Future Leadership & Innovation Workshop held by the UWA Young Leaders Council. The workshop was held on campus at UWA last month with the goal of promoting a better understanding of leadership within a university setting. This was a valuable opportunity for Dina and Ashri to connect with other young student leaders from across the State and to further develop their leadership skills. The UWA Young Leaders Council is a subsidiary council of the UWA Student Guild and works in partnership with the University of Western Australia. In this article, Dina and Ashri write of their experience at the Future Leadership & Innovation Workshop.

Hebrew Camp - a report by the students of the best Year 12 Hebrew class 2023 Every year, students in Year 11 and 12 go on Hebrew Camp. The camp is part of the curriculum and aims to give students the opportunity to assimilate Hebrew through actions in Hebrew, conversations with their classmates and with the Hebrew staff and Tzevet. The camp was only two days and focused on mu ...

I met with Yonatan this week to listen to his account of his recent Bar Mitzvah. He was very pleased to be able to welcome to Perth both sets of his grandparents who flew in from Glasgow and Newcastle in the UK, as well as his aunty from London. Yonatan’s Bar Mitzvah proceedings started on the Thursday before, when he received his first call up to read from the Torah at PHC an ...

Jamie’s Bar Mitzvah began with a lovely family Shabbat dinner on the Friday – he was delighted that his grandma was able to fly in from South Africa to be there. Jamie’s Uncle Dan and Aunty Nat joined the family from Melbourne, Margot and Dee came from Sydney and his great-aunty Wendy arrived with Jeff from Melbourne, too. Together with his mum, dad, gran (who made the cake), G ...

Ìý As we near the end of term, students and staff are visibly tiring (I hesitate to comment on the state of parents!), but I am confident we will all make it successfully to the Pesach and Easter break. A phone call from my son yesterday, describing his miserable symptoms as he lies in bed with another bout of COVID reminded me to arrange the next booster vaccination for myself ...

Meetings Mention ‘meetings’ to many people and they will sigh, groan or comment that meetings are a waste of time and that they wish they didn’t have to attend them. But every human encounter we have is effectively a meeting. Looking up a definition of the word clarified this for me - the sigh response probably relates to “an assembly of people for a particular purpose, espec ...

We warmly welcome Thomas Zahra to 69É«ÇéƬ this year as the new Primary School Physical Education Teacher. With a history of teaching in rural schools across Western Australia, Thomas is already feeling right at home at 69É«ÇéƬ. “Being a smaller school creates a country school-like community that I grew to love from teaching in places such as Ravensthorpe, Kununurr ...

Lots of discussions … It has felt as though the past week has involved lots of discussion on issues that have emerged in the media. Some of these are seen as controversial, others less so, but I strongly believe that it’s always far more constructive to talk widely about these issues and involve as many people as possible in discussions than it is to ignore them. Internationa ...

Hannah’s Bat Mitzvah was held on 24 December 2022 but due to a very busy and exciting start to the year we have not had the opportunity to chat about it. Hannah’s D’Var Torah related to Parshat Miketz which she delivered at Chabad Shul during the shabbat Mincha service. This was followed by Havdalah and lighting of the Chanukiah. A great time was had by all dancing and eating ...