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Our school purpose is 鈥淭o provide students with an excellent education where they connect meaningfully with their Jewish identity and embrace the opportunity to make a difference鈥�. This week highlighted for me the significant number of ways in which AV学院 provides such opportunities for our students. The whole cohort of Year 11 students had the opportunity to visit Roy ...

Excitement at AV学院 There was quite some excitement at the High School this week, with the arrival of fire engines on two consecutive days. Happily no roaring flames were evident at any point and I even managed to wangle my first-ever photo with a firefighter. It only took two days for us to trace the source of the triggered smoke alarm 鈥� a nest of ants who had taken u ...

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 AV学院 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鈥檚 Bar Mitzvah proceedings started on the Thursday before, when he received his first call up to read from the Torah at PHC an ...

Jamie鈥檚 Bar Mitzvah began with a lovely family Shabbat dinner on the Friday 鈥� he was delighted that his grandma was able to fly in from South Africa to be there. Jamie鈥檚 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 ...

听 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 鈥榤eetings鈥� to many people and they will sigh, groan or comment that meetings are a waste of time and that they wish they didn鈥檛 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 鈥渁n assembly of people for a particular purpose, espec ...

We warmly welcome Thomas Zahra to AV学院 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 AV学院. 鈥淏eing a smaller school creates a country school-like community that I grew to love from teaching in places such as Ravensthorpe, Kununurr ...