AV学院

Term 2 at AV学院 has been fabulous. This week鈥檚 final High School assembly emphasised how busy we have been when speakers listed the opportunities and events we have enjoyed together. Highlights of the term include the amazing talents on show at Sunday night鈥檚 music soiree, when performers from the Year 6 scholarship band, a number of High School bands, OKC鈥檚 and a surpr ...

Lior celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at PHC on Saturday 20th May. He had been practising for the bar mitzvah at PHC for a whole year on Thursdays after school and was well-prepared. Family gathered at AV学院 on the Thursday morning before Lior鈥檚 bar mitzvah to share his first tefillin experience with him. It was very special to be able to share the occasion with all four gra ...

I enjoyed Christopher Hudson鈥檚 LinkedIn post this week, which provided a commentary on an episode of Bluey which he said 鈥渉ighlights the quirky, and often hilarious, rules and practices of backyard cricket, but also the dispositions to learning that Rusty gains through participation in sport鈥�. Although my children are far too old to watch Bluey with or without their mother, I w ...

Reading in the Financial Review this week that 38,618 cases of CoVID have been reported in Australia in the past seven days made me stop and reflect on how different my thinking about the pandemic is from this time last year. The main difference is that CoVID occupies significantly far less headspace than it used to - I鈥檝e kept my immunisations up to date and consoled a few fri ...

Sometimes our childhood dreams come true. In fact, recent research by The Genius of Play team found an interesting connection between the games we play as children and our chosen career paths. One of our newest staff members would agree! Meet Simonne Moretta, who joined Carmel Primary School this year as our new Year 4 teacher. Simonne鈥檚 desire to teach was evident right from ...