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בס״ד 63rd Annual Report and Financial Statements 2015A | Moriah College 2015 Annual Report 63rd Annual Report and Financial Statements Moriah War Memorial College TRUSTEES DEAN OF JEWISH LIFE AND Association and its controlled Mr R Goot AM, SC (Chairman) LEARNING entities Mr R N Simons OAM Rabbi B Levy - BA (HONS), DipEd Mr R Gavshon Moriah War Memorial College Mr D Goulburn CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Association Mr G Einfeld OAM Mr T Johnson - MBA, B.Bus, BCom, FCPA, ACN 000 049 383 AFAIM, CPMgr LIFE PATRONS Mr R N Simons OAM HEAD OF PRIMARY SCHOOL The Moriah War Memorial Mr R Goot AM, SC Mr R Krigstein - DipTch B Ed MEd Admin Jewish College Association Mr R Gavshon (Resigned March 2015) Limited PRESIDENT ACTING HEAD OF PRIMARY SCHOOL ACN 003 214 560 Mr G Friede Mrs D Delbaere - TC Bed MACE MACEA (March – December 2015) Moriah College Building Fund DEPUTY PRESIDENT & Moriah War Memorial Fund Dr S Morris DIRECTOR OF EARLY LEARNING Trustee Mrs C Milwidsky - AMI Dip Montessori TREASURER Preschool BA Ed & Clinical Psych Post Mr J Fridman Grad Dip Counselling Moriah College Building Fund & Moriah War Memorial Fund HONORARY SECRETARY CO-PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT Ms M Sonnabend PARENTS’ & FRIENDS’ ASSOCIATION Queens Park Road Mrs L Ehrlich and Mrs I Gelman BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bondi Junction NSW 2022 AUDITOR Mr Robbie Blau (Appointed 10 March 2016) Mr O Freedman Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS Mr A Gelman (Resigned 23 June 2015) TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016 Mr S Jankelowitz Mrs J Lowy Mr G Sher Mrs T Solsky (Term Expired 21 May 2015) Mr M Weininger Mr S Wilkenfeld COLLEGE PRINCIPAL Mr J Hamey - B Ed (Distinction), M Ed Lead B | Moriah College 2015 Annual Report Contents OUR SCHOOL Our History / Welcome ....................................................................................................................................................................1 College President’s Report .............................................................................................................................................................3 College Principal’s Report ...............................................................................................................................................................8 Dean of Jewish Life & Learning’s Report ................................................................................................................................ 12 Director of Early Learning’s Report ........................................................................................................................................... 14 OUR ACHIEVEMENTS AND GOALS .................................................................................................................................. 19 OUR PERFORMANCE .................................................................................................................................................................... 23 OUR STAFF Professional Learning and Teacher Standards .................................................................................................................... 28 Human Resources .......................................................................................................................................................................... 32 OUR STUDENTS Student Leadership Report ......................................................................................................................................................... 36 House Report .................................................................................................................................................................................. 38 Debating ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 39 Sport ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41 Co-Curricular Music ...................................................................................................................................................................... 45 OUR COMMUNITY School policies, including Anti-Bullying................................................................................................................................. 48 Yedid-Moriah Alumni Association Report ............................................................................................................................. 51 OUR FUTURE The Moriah Foundation Report ................................................................................................................................................. 52 ADMISSIONS OFFICE REPORT ............................................................................................................................................. 59 COMMUNICATIONS REPORT ................................................................................................................................................ 61 OUR FINANCES Treasurer’s Report .......................................................................................................................................................................... 63 Moriah War Memorial College Association and its controlled entities ....................................................................... 66 Moriah War Memorial College Association ........................................................................................................................... 95 The Moriah War Memorial Jewish College Association Limited ..................................................................................121 Moriah College Building Fund & Moriah War Memorial Fund Trustee ......................................................................141 Moriah College Building Fund & Moriah War Memorial Fund ......................................................................................150 Our History / Welcome WELCOME MISSION STATEMENT Moriah College is an independent, co-educational modern “Moriah College aspires to achieve excellent academic Orthodox Jewish school, which prides itself on providing the standards by promoting the intellectual, spiritual, moral, highest standard of Jewish education. social and physical development of the students. We strive Offering Preschool, Primary, and High School education, Moriah to foster critical thought, cultural interests, tolerance, social aspires to achieve consistently excellent academic standards. responsibility and self-discipline. The total development of Year after year, our HSC results are up there with the best. all our students remains our overall concern - helping them to proudly realise their full potential as Jews, and as Australians.” Moriah College also embraces the belief that education does not stop at academic learning. A knowledge of our Jewish EDUCATIONAL GOALS traditions, ethics and family values, a positive commitment to modern Judaism and a love for the State of Israel help to Moriah not only aspires to achieve excellence in academic ensure our young people become caring, active, responsible standards, but maintains and promotes among its students members of the community. an awareness of and a feeling for Jewish traditions and ethics, an understanding of and a positive commitment to Orthodox HISTORY Judaism and identification with and love for Israel. Founded in 1943 by the Late Mr Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch, Moriah creates a stimulating and caring environment for each Moriah College is an independent, co-educational Modern student, provides a rich Jewish social and cultural experience Orthodox Jewish Day School, providing the highest and offers wide-ranging support services for its students, standard of secular and Jewish education from Preschool including support programs for children with special needs through to HSC level. and careers information and advice. In 1951, when Moriah opened its Vivian Street, Bellevue Hill DUAL CURRICULUM campus, it was a Primary School of 26 students and four teachers. Today Moriah, with a total enrolment in excess of Moriah College offers a dual curriculum of Secular and 1800 is one of the leading Jewish Day schools not only in Jewish Studies. It provides secular education, which exceeds Australia, but of the English speaking world. the standards required by the various New South Wales authorities. At the same time, it provides a comprehensive On 13 April, 1994, Moriah College’s High School moved and enriching Jewish Studies curriculum, faithful to the from its Vivian Street, Bellevue Hill premises to the new High College’s founding philosophy. School constructed at Queens Park. On the same day, our Primary School (Years 3-6) also moved on to the Queens Park Both curricula are compulsory and the College views the dual site and in so doing, the Late Abraham Rabinovitch’s dream system as embodying the totality of the learning experiences that one day Sydney would have a Jewish Day School “which to which the student is exposed. would rival any in the wider Community”, was realised. The educational program at Moriah College recognises the individual needs and interests of the students as well as the needs of the Community – maintaining a balance between the need to preserve and the need to respond to social, economic and cultural change. 1 | Moriah College 2015 Annual Report BOARD OF