Bush fires, floods, COVID-19 and now the global anti-racism movement, and we are only in June. To say that 2020 is turning out to be a memorable year is a lesson in understatement. Just as the future rapidly reinvents itself, so too, it would seem, do the societal challenges our students will face before they … Continue reading When the value of life should be colour blind

"If you do not change direction, you may land up where you are heading."Lao Tzu Thinking back on my own childhood, one of my most favourite pastimes was feeling airborne, on the wings of our garden swing – a sloppy, ropey contraption that hung off our Jacaranda tree. So, when children ask me to push … Continue reading Moving in a new direction

A snapshot of the days preceding COVID-19 reveals a pressurised parent body who were generally in a constant battle to juggle the competing demands of work-life and nurturing their children and family unit. Technology and social pressures were significant distractors, which consumed the attention of all, whether it was parents, students and, at times, educators, … Continue reading A Brave New World at Moriah

This week, on Friday, 22 May, we celebrate Yom Yerushalayim. Translated as the ‘Day of Jerusalem’, Yom Yerushalayim is an Israeli national holiday celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in the aftermath of the June 1967 Six-Day War. One of the unsung heroines of this period was Naomi Shemer, one of Israel’s greatest … Continue reading Days of gratitude

Once upon a time, in a pre-COVID-19 world, most educators would have recoiled at the overuse of buzz words like "agile", "adaptable", "resilient" and even "independent", which had come to lack any real meaning. Then, the unthinkable happened, and in a heartbeat, almost like a switch had been flicked, we embraced remote, online learning and … Continue reading Once upon a time, pre-COVID-19…