Educational and Financial Report - Masada College

Reporting Area 12: Initiatives promoting respect and responsibilityMasada College supports the Federal Government Values program and ensures the whole community is aware of our focus. The College’s code of conduct is based onRESPECT and RESPONSIBILITY which are the core of our Leading Learning educational package. Respect of oneself, others and the environment and we areconstantly looking at ways to reinforce this theme. Our Welfare & Discipline Policy reflects our focus on respect and responsibility. Responsibility for one’s actions andone’s learning is also central to our teaching and learning progress.Heritage♦ Our senior leaders attend community services for Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence day), and YomHazikaron (fallen soldiers)♦ Our Year 8 Shabbaton and Year 9—11 Jewish Studies camps provide opportunities to explore and connect to Heritage♦ Our Living Historians program in Year 6 and Year 10 sees our students form relationships primarily with Holocaust survivors, which gives them a renewed appreciationof their own democratic existence and great respect for the survivors♦ Our Year 11 students are involved in the March of the Living Holocaust program which involves visits to sites in Poland♦ We are encouraging our Year 10 students to attend an Israel experience♦ Our Year 12 students are actively encouraged to attend an Israel Year 13 experience♦ Our Year 2 students Siddur Presentation, and Year 4 Shabbat Experience directly links our students to their heritage and are sources of pride, great excitementInterfaith♦ We welcome several schools to Masada College during the course of the year to tour and explain the workings of our synagogue♦ Masada College hosted the United Nations Peace Day Ceremony, welcoming schools from varying faiths and backgrounds♦ Interfaith programs in Years 5 / 6, Year 11 and Year 9 in a three stage Respect, Understanding and Acceptance project to include Armenian, Muslim, Catholicand Greek Orthodox schoolsIntergenerational♦ Our Year 6 and Year 10 Living Historians provide another opportunity for our students to form relationships with older generations♦ Our Primary students entertained residents at the Montefiore Home and a local aged home♦ Our Year 8 students visited the Montefiore Home and worked and interacted with residentsAustralian Culture♦ Our students leaders attend communal services for Anzac Day & Remembrance Day♦ To celebrate and recognize Anzac Day and Remembrance Day, we invite guest speakers from the Armed Forces to address our students♦ We have a daily ceremony raising the National flags♦ Our student representations annually join the Ku-ring-gai Voices for Reconciliation ceremonyValuing Differences♦ We have a Chinese assembly to promote not only the language but the culture of China♦ Students from St Edmunds school for children with Special Needs visit the College and entertain us at our assembly and our Year 9 students visit their College fora day♦ Year 12 students participated at Camp Sababa - held at North Shore Community Centre and spent four days caring for disabled students, after undergoing twodays of pre-training. Other community members also contributed their services for the camp.32