62Nd Annual Report and Financial Statements 20141 | Moriah College 2014 Annual Report 62Nd Annual Report and Financial Statements
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בס״ד 62nd Annual Report and Financial Statements 20141 | Moriah College 2014 Annual Report 62nd Annual Report and Financial Statements Moriah War Memorial TRUSTEES COLLEGE PRINCIPAL College Association Mr R Goot AM, SC (Chairman) Mr J Hamey Mr R N Simons OAM B Ed (Distinction), Med Lead ACN 000 049 383 Mr R Gavshon Mr D Goulburn DEAN OF JEWISH LIFE AND The Moriah War Memorial Mr G Einfeld OAM LEARNING Jewish College Association Rabbi B Levy Limited LIFE PATRONS BA (HONS), DipEd Mr R N Simons OAM ACN 003 214 560 Mr R Goot AM, SC CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Mr R Gavshon Mr T Johnson Moriah College Building Fund MBA, B.Bus, BCom, FCPA, AFAIM, CPMgr & Moriah War Memorial Fund PRESIDENT (appointed January 2015) Mr G Friede HEAD OF CORPORATE SERVICES Moriah College Building Fund IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Mr S Samuels & Moriah War Memorial Fund Mr M Schneider (retired May 2014) B Com, ACA, FCIS, CPA Trustee (resigned December 2014) Queens Park Road DEPUTY PRESIDENT Bondi Junction NSW 2022 Dr S Morris HEAD OF MIDDLE SCHOOL Mrs T Fischl ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS TREASURER B Ed Primary, B Teach, Cert TfU WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015 Mr J Fridman (redundant December 2014) HONORARY SECRETARY HEAD OF PRIMARY SCHOOL Ms M Sonnabend Mr R Krigstein DipTch B Ed MEd Admin BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr O Freedman DIRECTOR OF EARLY LEARNING Mr A Gelman Mrs C Milwidsky Mr R Goot AM SC (resigned May 2014) AMI Dip Montessori Preschool Mr S Jankelowitz BA Ed & Clinical Psych Post Grad Dip Mrs J Lowy Counselling Mr G Sher Mrs T Solsky PRESIDENT PARENTS’ & FRIENDS’ Mr M Weininger ASSOCIATION Mr S Wilkenfeld Mrs L Ehrlich AUDITOR Grant Thornton Audit Pty Ltd 2 | Moriah College 2014 Annual Report Contents Contents OUR SCHOOL Our History / Welcome ....................................................................................................................................................................4 College President’s Report .............................................................................................................................................................6 College Principal’s Report ............................................................................................................................................................ 12 Dean of Jewish Life & Learning’s Report ................................................................................................................................ 17 Director of Early Learning’s Report ........................................................................................................................................... 20 OUR ACHIEVEMENTS AND GOALS .................................................................................................................................. 24 OR PERFORMANCE ........................................................................................................................................................................ 27 OUR STAFF Professional Learning and Teacher Standards .................................................................................................................... 32 Human Resources ........................................................................................................................................................................... 37 OUR STUDENTS OUR COMMUNITY School policies, including Anti-Bullying................................................................................................................................. 49 Parents’ & Friends’ Report ............................................................................................................................................................ 53 Yedid-Moriah Alumni Report ..................................................................................................................................................... 54 The Moriah Foundation Report ................................................................................................................................................. 56 OUR FUTURE Development Office Report ...................................................................................................................................................... 63 OUR FINANCES Treasurer’s Report .......................................................................................................................................................................... 65 Moriah War Memorial College Association and its controlled entities ....................................................................... 68 Moriah War Memorial College Association ........................................................................................................................... 95 The Moriah War Memorial Jewish College Association Limited ..................................................................................121 Moriah College Building Fund & Moriah War Memorial Fund Trustee ......................................................................140 Moriah College Building Fund & Moriah War Memorial Fund ......................................................................................149 3 | Moriah College 2014 Annual Report Our History / Welcome WELCOME responsibility and self-discipline. The total development of all our students remains our overall concern - helping them to Moriah College is an independent, co-educational modern proudly realise their full potential as Jews, and as Australians.” Orthodox Jewish school, which prides itself on providing the highest standard of Jewish education. EDUCATIONAL GOALS Offering Preschool, Primary, and High School education, Moriah Moriah not only aspires to achieve excellence in academic aspires to achieve consistently excellent academic standards. standards, but maintains and promotes among its students Year after year, our HSC results are up there with the best. an awareness of and a feeling for Jewish traditions and ethics, Moriah College also embraces the belief that education does an understanding of and a positive commitment to Orthodox not stop at academic learning. A knowledge of our Jewish Judaism and identification with and love for Israel. traditions, ethics and family values, a positive commitment Moriah creates a stimulating and caring environment for each to modern Judaism and a love for the State of Israel help to student, provides a rich Jewish social and cultural experience ensure our young people become caring, active, responsible and offers wide-ranging support services for its students, members of the community. including support programs for children with special needs HISTORY and careers information and advice. Founded in 1943 by the Late Mr Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch, DUAL CURRICULUM Moriah College is an independent, co-educational Modern Moriah College offers a dual curriculum of Secular and Orthodox Jewish Day School, providing the highest standard Jewish Studies. It provides secular education, which exceeds of secular and Jewish education from Preschool through to the standards required by the various New South Wales HSC level. authorities. At the same time, it provides a comprehensive In 1951, when Moriah opened its Vivian Street, Bellevue Hill and enriching Jewish Studies curriculum, faithful to the campus, it was a Primary School of 26 students and four College’s founding philosophy. teachers. Today Moriah, with a total enrolment in excess of Both curricula are compulsory and the College views the dual 1700 students is one of the leading Jewish Day schools not system as embodying the totality of the learning experiences only in Australia, but of the English speaking world. to which the student is exposed. On 13 April, 1994, Moriah College’s High School moved The educational program at Moriah College recognises the from its Vivian Street, Bellevue Hill premises to the new High individual needs and interests of the students as well as the School constructed at Queens Park. On the same day, our needs of the Community – maintaining a balance between Primary School (Years 3-6) also moved on to the Queens Park the need to preserve and the need to respond to social, site and in so doing, the Late Abraham Rabinovitch’s dream economic and cultural change. that one day Sydney would have a Jewish Day School “which would rival any in the wider Community”, was realised. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MISSION STATEMENT Moriah College is operated by the Moriah War Memorial College Association and The Moriah War Memorial Jewish “Moriah College aspires to achieve excellent academic College Association Limited. standards by promoting the intellectual, spiritual, moral, social and physical development of the students. We strive Under its constitutions, the Associations’ Board of Directors to foster critical thought, cultural interests, tolerance, social is responsible for the direction, control, decision making and 4 | Moriah College 2014 Annual Report development of the College. Membership of the Associations consistent with the ethos of the College and the policies is available to any person of the Jewish faith, other than formulated by the Board. The College Principal is given teachers employed by the Association. authority, inter alia for: In broad terms, the Board of Directors is required to formulate • The operation of the College within a policy framework set and develop College policy, arrange funding of the College’s down by the Board and within the budgets approved by the operations, present the College to the Community at large and Board. to