Welcome to our High School
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HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING
Emanuel School encourages students to love and value learning and to understand that learning is a lifelong journey.
Emanuel School builds in our students a love of learning, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own unique learning story. Our ultimate goal is to develop passionate, independent learners equipped with the skills and dispositions necessary for success in the 21st century.
Our students are encouraged both to problem-solve and problem-find. Deep, critical thinking is valued and ongoing reflection is actively promoted. Students are provided with opportunities to learn about each subject, function as a practitioner and develop cross-curricular skills and understandings that prepare them for their future. Our learning environment promotes engagement in collaborative, real-life learning and builds students’ ability to think innovatively. Our teachers are committed to ongoing professional growth, so as to remain at the forefront of best practice in teaching and learning. They are reflective practitioners, committed to our students’ growth as learners and thinkers.
7-12 Curriculum
Emanuel School offers a wide range of subjects from Years 7 - 12, following the NESA (NSW Educational Standards Authority) Syllabuses. Hebrew is compulsory until the end of Year 7, and can also be studied through to the HSC.
Students take Jewish Studies in Years 7 to 11.
Students are offered a diverse range of subjects to choose from in Year 10 and Year 11.
There is also the option for students to undertake vocational courses outside the School, and other languages through the NSW School of Languages.
Links to all syllabuses can be found on the NESA website http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au
HIGH SCHOOL JEWISH LIFE
At Emanuel, we seek to foster a love of Jewish learning and living.
We strive to build a community of caring and knowledgeable individuals, who experience Judaism as personally engaging and meaningful. With a diverse student body and staff, we honour and promote pluralistic expressions of Judaism as enriching and deepening our shared heritage.
Our inclusive and welcoming school environment serves to nurture responsible and concerned individuals contributing to both our Jewish and world communities.
In accordance with our school motto, we are committed to educating the whole child, in Mind, Spirit and Being.
MIND לבבך
Within our Jewish Studies classes, which are compulsory from Years 7-11, we challenge our students to explore and discover Judaism as a living dialogue in which each individual has a voice.
Through project-based learning, electives and thematic units, our students are encouraged to develop both an appreciation of the wisdom of our tradition and a critical and authentic understanding of how it may help them forge a mindful and meaningful Jewish life.
Our students encounter their Hebrew studies as a means to engage more fully with their Jewish heritage and present-day Israel. They experience Hebrew as the shared language of our people and as a core component of their Jewish identity.
SPIRIT נפשך
Every Friday, we enjoy a student-led welcoming of Shabbat that highlights the joy of communal celebration. Our students sing Shabbat and Hebrew songs, dance together, share in a variety of theme-centred Shabbat experiences, join in the kiddush and motsi (prayers over the wine and bread) and, in a spirited expression of simchah (joy) and ruach, honour the best of Shabbat.
On Monday mornings we communally experience moments of prayer, reflection and study. Student members of each House lead their peers in prayer and share their thoughts and perspectives on the weekly parashah (Torah reading), through their own D’Var Torah. In addition, a variety of tefillah (prayer) groups, such as Jewish meditation, encountering prayer as a personal journey, or exploring challenging and personal theological and ethical issues through the lens of Jewish thinking and living, are provided to our students.
BEING מאדך
Coming together in chaggim and moadim, celebration and commemorations, we give living expression to our Jewish being. Our Jewish Life madrichim and their peers develop programs and activities that highlight the essence of holiday and commemorative events, while generating new rituals and observances that speak to them. Our students become empowering agents in creating a living Judaism in which being Jewish is an ever-renewing enterprise.
Our students engage in many diverse Tikkun Olam projects and programs. Being Jewish, they learn that we are called upon to live as God’s partners in bettering our world through caring for the wellbeing of others (gemilut hasadim) and working for equity and justice (tzedakah) for all people. Students initiate and participate in Tikkun Olam endeavours within our local, national and world-wide communities.
Preparation for after School
Careers
At Emanuel School, learning about careers is an important step in the lifelong learning process and profile of every student.
Career exploration, progression and transition are cornerstones of the careers program for the senior years. Our Careers Advisor offers one-on-one consultations to inform students about possible careers and tertiary study so that they leave school ready to take on the world and find a fulfilling and varied career.
The Careers Program begins in Year 10 when students undertake career tests, embarking on their personal career exploration process. Students are mentored through High School, exploring career and subject selection pathways in line with their personal interests and strengths.
Students engage with future thinking through our guest speaker program and Career Space events.
Each week, our Careers Advisor provides students and parents with the latest information about further study and career paths via a page in our school newsletter, Ma Nishma.
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