Kesser Torah College
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Thursday 20 November 2014 / 27 Cheshvan 5775
Full School BBQ
ʣ³ʱʡ This Monday
24 November / 2 Kislev
in honour of Rosh Chodesh Kislev
Cost: FREE!
We thank our very generous sponsors
for donating the sausages and buns for
this delicious lunch :)
Nechama Israel is pictured with Mayor Sally Betts
and Gabrielle Upton MP.
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week-long event and
view more photos.
Important
Dates
General
News
(Pg 2)
(Pg 3)
(Pgs 4-6)
Thursday, 20 November 2014
KTC attends
Remembrance
Day Ceremony
Whole
School
Number
Quiz
Principal’s
Dvar Torah
ECC
(Pgs 7)
Parshas - Toldos
Shabbos Mevorchim Kislev
Shabbos candlelighting - 7:23pm
Shabbos ends - 8:24pm
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and more photos.
PS
(Pgs 8-11)
HS
(Pg 12-13)
In Your
Area...
Shluchos
update
(Pgs 14-15)
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
One of the themes of this week’s Torah portion, parshas Toldos, highlights the important connections and bonds that are
eternally forged through parents and children communicating with each other.
The Chofetz Chaim presents an interesting perspective on this question that arises because Yitzchak, blesses Yaacov
twice in Parshas Toldos. Once, in the beginning of the week’s parsha we learn in detail how Yitzchak bestows the
blessing upon his son Yaacov. Once again, near the end of the parsha he blesses Yaacov again with the following:
ּ‫”ויקרא יצחק אל יעקב ויברך אוֹתו ויצוהו‬
“:‫ויאמר לוֹ לא תקח אשה מבנוֹת כנען‬
“Yitzchak summoned Yaacov and blessed him. He instructed him and said to him,
”do not take a wife from the Canaanite women”.
This latter blessing is present, according to the Chofetz Chaim to teach us much about how we raise our children in the
pathways we see fit for them. Parents will be more successful in negotiating the really hard choices, such as whom to
marry, when they care enough to communicate from love, assertive discipline and respect throughout their lives. The
Chofetz Chaim is letting us know that as our students learned incredibly powerful lessons this week through fun,
enthusiastic personal development lessons, lofty goals cannot be achieved in a forceful way. A life dedicated to values,
morality and spirituality begins at home. Long term goals cannot be accomplished through one off actions. There must
be small steps toward our ultimate goal of Jewish continuity. Taking the time to listen, and making sure, firmly and calmly
that we are also heard by our children. Rational discussions with boundaries of what is acceptable and what is not must
be established as early as possible within a family.
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We cannot wake up one day and point fingers back at our children in their teenage years. It is all about the whole
pathway that we start way back in their infancy. It is never too late to redirect ourselves. It is about parents making the
best, correct choices for their children. Remaining steadfast but being open and providing communication pathways.
Take some time to contemplate how you communicate with your children. If your communication pathways are bit
overgrown from lack of use, do not fear. Begin instead with a topic you know is of interest to your child and take the time
to actively listen to him or her about it. Become or remain involved in their lives. They want that as much as you do,
whether either of you realise it.
Wishing you many opportunities to bless your children this week in the areas that really matter.
Have a wonderful and blessed Shabbos,
Rabbi Dr Noteh Glogauer - Principal
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Important Dates
Hot Dog Day in honour of Rosh Chodesh Kislev
Term 4
Wk 6
Term 4
Wk 7
Year K 2015 Orientation Morning
Thursday 27 November
Term 4 Interschool Sport Ends
Thursday 27 November
High School Vaccinations
Tuesday 2 December
Cyber-Bullying Presentations (Years 2-6)
Tuesday 2 December
ECC Orientation Day
Tuesday 2 December
CRELS Orientation Day
Year 7-10 End of Year Exams
Term 4
Wk 8
Monday 24 November
ECC/CRELS End of Year Event
Teacher Marking Day - SCHOOL CLOSED for HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Chanukah
Wednesday 3 December
Monday 8 - Thursday 11 December
Thursday 11 December
Friday 12 December
Tuesday 16 - 24 December
GIRLS Final Assembly (Years 3 - 5)
Tuesday 16 December @ 9:15am
GIRLS Speech Night (Years 6 - 11)
Tuesday 16 December @ 6:00pm
BOYS Final Assembly (Years 3 - 5)
Wednesday 17 December @ 9:15am
BOYS Speech Night (Years 6 - 11)
Wednesday 17 December @ 6:00pm
Term 4
Wk 9
Last day of Term 4
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Term 1 2015
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Wk 1
Thursday, 20 November 2014
First Day Term 1 2015
First Day Term 1 2015 - Year K
Thursday 19 December
Thursday 29 January
Friday 30 January
General News
PSG Roster - Term 4, Week 5
Monday - Thursday Afternoon shift: ARRIVE AT 3:00PM SHARP!
Friday Afternoon shift:
ARRIVE AT 2:15PM SHARP!
Monday 24 November
Tuesday 25 November
Wednesday 26 November
Thursday 27 November
Friday 28 November
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Thursday, 20 November 2014
AM
Mark Weinberg
PM
Devorah Niasoff
AM
Paul Nailand
PM
Cassia Partane
AM
PM
AM
PM
Michael Berkovits
AM
Mark Reinhardt
PM
Rabbi Blasenstein
Jarred Stein
Fran Ereira
Kirsten Miller
Please be reminded
of the following
parking restriction.
NO PARKING
IN CUL-DE-SAC
(NAPIER ST)
Mark Weinberg
There is to be strictly
NO PARKING in the
cul-de-sac side of
Napier Street by
Order of the Land
and Environment
Court of NSW No.
40197 of 1998.
General News
KTC Recite Tehillim for Jerusalem Victims
The entire school has been reciting Tehillim and will continue to pray for the five victims of the latest terrorist attack in
Jerusalem.
Rabbi Moshe Twersky
Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky
Rabbi Avrohom
Shmuel Goldberg
Rabbi Kalman Zeev Levine
Sergeant-Major
Zidan Nihad Seif
Uniform Shop Open Times
The uniform shop will be open on the following days ONLY, during the summer holidays:
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Monday, 19 January
Wednesday, 21 January
9:30am – 12:30pm
9:30am – 12:30pm
Anne is looking for volunteers to assist in the uniform shop which is open on Tuesday mornings 8:30am – 10:00am and
Thursday afternoons from 3:15pm to 4:30pm, and also on the 19 and 21 January, so any volunteers are invited to contact
Anne or the school to offer their assistance.
Thursday, 20 November 2014
ʣ³ʱʡ General News
ʣ³ʱʡ Whole School Numbers Quiz
This week, we ended an exciting week-long "Numbers Quiz" running through the Primary School, GHS & BHS.
Students spent the week working very hard on
learning all kinds of number related facts, aimed at
boosting their overall Jewish general knowledge.
GHS Students taking the Quiz
The Primary students were all treated
to delicious icy poles!
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GHS ended their
week-long Quiz
with a
well-deserved,
fabulous
pizza party!
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And the BHS will enjoy a tasty BBQ
next week....
More photos in next week’s newsletter!!
Early Childhood Centres
Mazel Tov to Dinah Malka Hersh who turned 3 this week.
CLASS OF THE WEEK - SIMCHA CLASS
This month the Simcha class have shown an interest in the human body.
We have been reading books that explain what is inside our body and about our ‘organs’
and how they work and help us. This last week the Simcha class have been learning about
their lungs, how they function and how they help us.
Diary Dates
End of Year Show
for Children and Parents
“Swag full of Instruments”
Thursday 11th December
Chanukah Afternoon Tea will be served.
Last Day of the Year
Friday 19th December
First Day of 2015
Monday 19 January 2015
The children engaged in some science experiments to see how our lungs work in action!
We had 2 balloons blown up and attached them to strings side by side. The children tried to
predict what would happen, some said it would travel fast and other children said the balloons would move slowly. Two children then
held each end of the strings and as we let go of the balloons they observed what was happening. The children then wondered if we
made the balloons different sizes, which would go faster? The children had a lot of fun with this and were so excited to watch the
balloons fly into the air! We discussed how it was the air that was blown from inside Morah Carol’s lungs that propelled the balloons
forward.
The children then followed another experiment from the body book. Two cars raced against each other across a table by being blown
with a straw. Two children at a time had turns to blow the cars to race them. The children had fun, but also got exhausted as they were
using lots of air from their lungs!
It was a great way for the children to experience for themselves how their bodies assist them in every day living.
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Thursday, 20 November 2014
Primary School
Hat & Sunnies Day Fundraiser
Last Friday, many Primary Students took part in Hat and Sunnies Day to raise money for a very worthy charity. Students
wearing brightly coloured hats and sunglasses flooded into the school, donating gold coins to an organisation called
Maksam.
Maksam is a network of Day Centres in Israel who run after-school learning for Ethiopian Jewish children. KTC kids
raised $150.
We were thrilled that so many students took part in this fundraiser to support this wonderful cause. We had so much fun
and we hope everyone had fun too!
Esther Israel and Shira Nailand
(Year 6 Primary Girls School Captains)
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Primary School
Roosters League Tag Gala Day
On Wednesday 19th November a group of Primary School boys represented KTC in the annual Roosters League Tag
Gala Day. The Year 6 team, captained by Eytan Taub, won 2 games and were very unlucky not to qualify to the semifinals. The Year 4 team demonstrated amazing improvement throughout the day and were rewarded with a
comprehensive victory. Well done to all the boys who represented our school, and thank you to the friends and family
that supported our teams on the day.
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Thursday, 20 November 2014
Tzivos Hashem
6G: Corn on the Cob Winners!
Last term, for the last 3 weeks, Year 6G earned the reward of corn on the cob for
bringing in the most missions over a 3 week period! After a long wait and a display of
extreme patience they were given the reward this past Monday and ate the fresh corn
with much relish! Well done 6G!
High Achievers enjoy Sunny Boys
As printed in last weeks newsletter, children from all grades who had a 95% and higher return rate on their missions,
spanning from the beginning of Term 3 till the end of Tishrei, were given Sunny Boy ice blocks and a Tzivos Hashem
frequent flyer card. Well done!
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Tzivos Hashem
Tzivos Hashem Poster Competition
It was with tremendous excitement that children submitted their work
for the 2nd annual international Tzivos Hashem poster competition.
Please see a sample of the works, out of a large group that was
submitted and also selected to be sent to Tzivos Hashem
headquarters in New York. Well done to all the children who took the
time and effort and gave a lot of creative thought to produce unique
posters!
There were K”AH so many to look at.
Shabbos Mevorchim Kislev
‫בס’ד‬
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We stand on the brink of an awesome month! A month that brings with it
much light! Being that this is the Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh Kislev
we try and make sure that we say as many Tehillim as possible. We urge
all the pure children to pick up a Tehillim, whether it be at home, at Shule
or part of a Tehillim programme, and say as much as you can! Look at
your mission sheets and see what you are expected to say. YOU can
shine! YOU can help our school shine by doing your part to help KTC
reach our goal. Remember, it is the Tefillos of you, our kinderlach, that
keep and support the world! Please parents help and encourage your
child. Give it all you’ve got!
TEHILLIM
JUST SAY IT!
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Thursday, 20 November 2014
Smooze it @
recess
‫בס“ד‬
SHABBOS
MEVORCHIM
SHABBOS MEVORCH
IM
TEHILLIM
RTH ION
NO
IVIS :
DI D
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BON BINA :00
@
0
0-1
9:3
Class that says their
quota of Tehilliim
Each person* in the class
gets a delicious smooze!!!
(*only if you said Tehillim
SHABBOS MEVORCHIM-KISLEV
Time: 9:30 - 10:00am
and helped your class
reach their quota)
Boys: Tzemach Tzedek
Girls: Tzemach Tzedek
Year
5/6 come to tzemach tzedek @ 9:15 to say extra tehillim.
these extra tehillim sayers will IY”H receive milk shakes.
High School
Amendment to School Vaccination Program for
Remainder of 2014
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Varicella vaccination (Chicken pox) will be withdrawn from the vaccines offered on the third visit on 2nd December 2014.
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Nurses will prepare a letter and a Chicken Pox Fact Sheet to send to parents who have consented for their child to receive varicella
vaccine which will be left with the school to mail out at the end of the clinic.
South Eastern Health have advised that the Ministry of Health are unable to provide more varicella vaccines (chicken pox) for the school
vaccination program due to a worldwide shortage. Therefore, they will not continue to offer the chicken pox vaccine to Year 7 students through
the School Program this year (2014). The Ministry of Health has sourced a replacement vaccine which will be provided to general practitioners
for the Year 7 students, as a replacement to the school program chicken pox vaccine for the remaining 2014.
KTC Represented at Waverley Council
Remembrance Day Ceremony
Ms Shuey and Nechama Israel represented KTC at last Tuesday’s Remembrance Day
Ceremony at Waverley Cenotaph.
Mayor Sally Betts, Nechama Israel
and Gabrielle Upton MP
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High School
BHS Make Tzitzis with Rabbi Israel
This is all part of a very exciting, much larger initiative.....stay tuned for more details, coming soon!!!!
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High School Shluchos Corner
Hi there KTC,
We can’t believe it’s already the end of another week!
iGrow Melbourne Shabbaton has already come and gone and we had such an amazing time. From shiurim in the park, to an
amazing Friday night dinner, to touring Melbourne city, laser skirmish, basement fun, our own ice skating rink session, Shabbos
afternoon jaw-dropping shiur, catching up with family and friends, CMI museum, rain and cold and sunshine… we had such a blast!
Make sure to check out the pictures (next page) from our incredible trip.
We’ve moved into our new office - upstairs and right round the corner from all the classrooms. Everyone has been very welcoming
and coming in to visit us in between classes :) Thanks to the HSC art students for letting us use their workroom until the end of the
year.
On Tuesday, the SRC in conjunction with Yad L’ezra broke out the ‘Water Wetreat’ carnival fundraiser in honour of the month of
Cheshvan when we daven extra hard for rain. The carnival will be this coming Tuesday on the oval during the last period of the day.
Make sure to bring $5 to participate in all the fun booths and grab some yum refreshing snacks as well. We are looking forward to
some cool refreshing entertainment!
Tuesday was also the final day for the General Knowledge Quiz that the entire school participated in! Every girl sat a test for the
Jewish general knowledge she had learnt and was rewarded with a pizza party at lunch time. Girls who did very well on the test will
also be going into a raffle to win one of two $50 Westfield vouchers. Not a bad deal ;) A huge thank you to the ‘traditions’ team of
teachers, specifically to Mrs Niasoff for making sure everything ran smoothly.
This week is Shabbos Mevorchim Kislev - the end of the year is slowly creeping up! We will be hosting Shabbos mevorchim
tehillim at our apartment for GHS at 9.30am. Cake and coffee will be served :)
Bnos this week for GPS will be at Central as usual from 5:00 - 6:15. Please make sure to pick your child up punctually! Bnos for
years 5&6 will be hosted by Tsipporah Shelim - please make sure your daughter meets her class there (34 Woodstock St, Bondi
Junction) at 5 and has a way of getting home.
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We will also be hosting a Shabbos Mevorchim afternoon program at the Itkin residence: 49a Edward St, Bondi at 6.45pm for
GHS. Make sure you’re there for a some Shabbos afternoon fun and brain-racking discussions :) Especially with Shabbos coming
out so late, there is always room to fit in some time for getting together with friends to share ideas and have a bit of a shmooze can’t wait to see everyone there!
Wishing you all a Good Shabbos,
Love Bassie and Chaya
Thursday, 20 November 2014
High School Shluchos Corner
Melbourne
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Shabbaton