If you were to look through the window of our creche or kinder rooms here at Yavneh Early Learning Centre, you would see a room full of experienced educators and young children engaging in meaningful play-based learning, surrounded by colour, vibrancy, and suitable resources. Whilst...
When parents think of assessments, they tend to think of formal tests conducted by the teacher or standardised testing set by the state government. There is so much more to assessments. Everything that we do in and out of the classroom provides a range of...
Yavneh is not just a Zionist school, it is Religious Zionist school. Religious Zionism is not a synonym for Zionist and frum (although that is what we are too), but rather a statement on how we view and value the Modern State of Israel. The...
Terms like neurodiversity, neurodivergent and neurotypical may seem the result of current psychological and educational trends. However, the descriptor "neurodiversity" was first used by Judy Singer, an Australian sociologist in the late 1990s. This makes the word older than every single member of One Direction...
In educating young children, a lot of time and planning is spent ensuring the well-being of the children in our care and we spend a lot of time reviewing our safety protocols to ensure we are always on top of our game. Safety is a broad...
How is your Jewish identity formed and forged? Is it engendered or nurtured? How does our own Jewish journey connect with our collective journey as a People? Did you inherit your identity? Are we able to transmit it to future generations? Is Jewish identity only...
I know that Pesach is a time of the year where many of you will be busy preparing for the upcoming seder. And let's face it, there's nothing like a good seder to bring out the passion in all of us. The food, the songs,...
Presently, I am spending time in Israel, living in leafy Katamon and enjoying spending my days engrossed in research, exploring the intersection between halakha and secular law. My aspiration is that these studies will help the Melbourne community have the confidence to litigate their commercial...
Leibler Yavneh College's musical, Les Misérables, featuring Eli Faraday, Adam Geller, Shira Etzion, Sami Chait, Livia Alford, Osha Rubenstein Slesenger and Noah Goldenberg in lead roles, was a mesmerizing production that left the audience captivated and spellbound. It is hard to find the words to...
Let’s get real. We are blessed. Our students are energetic creative, kind and intelligent people. They come to school each day wanting to achieve their best and the make the world a better place. They are wonderful people who also happen to have not-yet-fully-developed brains who...
