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, located in the

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, Australia. The school currently has over 700 students enrolled from

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. , the principal was Shula Lazar.

History

Leibler Yavneh College was founded in 1961 as Yavneh College, and began at 81 Balaclava Road,

Caulfield North Caulfield North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local government area. Caulfield North recorded a population of 16,903 at the ...

with 53 students ranging from Kindergarten to Year 1. It was established with the objective of attaining high standards in Jewish and General Studies. The College saw its first Year 6 graduates in 1974 and for the next 13 years operated solely as a primary school. In 1979 a secondary school was opened on a site in Mercer Road, , and six years later Leibler Yavneh College presented its first VCE graduates. The college has regularly achieved excellent VCE results that put it within the top 10 schools in Victoria. By 1989 the College expanded at such a rate that larger premises were required. This led to the acquisition of the present Slezak Campus in Elsternwick, which today accommodates more than 700 students from Prep to Year 12. The remaining junior and senior kindergarten students (totalling almost 100) are accommodated at the Abeles-Liberman Pre-school on Balaclava Road, Caulfield. From its beginning it was intended to be a Zionist school, with the establishment of The State of Israel central to its identity. In 2007 former principal Roy Steinman announced that the College will undergo a $10 million expansion at both the Early Learning Centre, as well as the main school. The project was due for completion by late 2009/early 2010. The expansions included a new auditorium, cafeteria and library. In mid-2010, the new section for the high school was opened. In 2017, the school had the distinction of having the Chief Rabbi of Israel come and address students. David Lau was visiting Melbourne on his Australia tour.

Curriculum

The secondary school curriculum includes

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Halacha ''Halakha'' (; he, הֲלָכָה, ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical commandm ...

Mishnah The Mishnah or the Mishna (; he, מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb ''shanah'' , or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions which is known as the Oral Torah ...

Gemara The Gemara (also transliterated Gemarah, or in Yiddish Gemo(r)re; from Aramaic , from the Semitic root ג-מ-ר ''gamar'', to finish or complete) is the component of the Talmud comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah w ...

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

, French,

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

, Health and

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, Dance, Science, History,

Tanakh The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
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and

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, and

The Arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

including Music,

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/Jewellery and Technology design, and Drama.

Year 12 curriculum

The College offers an extensive range of subjects available to all students participating in years 11 and 12. These include English,

English Literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

Further Mathematics Further Mathematics is the title given to a number of advanced secondary mathematics courses. The term "Higher and Further Mathematics", and the term "Advanced Level Mathematics", may also refer to any of several advanced mathematics courses at man ...

, Maths Methods, Specialist Mathematics,

Legal Studies Jurisprudence, or legal theory, is the theoretical study of the propriety of law. Scholars of jurisprudence seek to explain the nature of law in its most general form and they also seek to achieve a deeper understanding of Reason#Logical rea ...

, Accounting, Hebrew, History,

Business Management Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

, Drama, Music, Art,

Health and Physical Education Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

, Texts and Traditions, Visual Communication and Design, Media Studies, and Studio Arts

Community service

A core principle to

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Torah The Torah (; hbo, ''Tōrā'', "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In that sense, Torah means the s ...

Avodah ''Avoda'', or ''Avodah'' (), literally means "work, worship, and service" in Hebrew. In a modern context, usually referring to business-type activities, it can also mean agricultural work and, more traditionally, serving God. Original meaning In ...

and Gemilut Hasadim. These principles are intertwined in the core beliefs of the college. Therefore, a compulsory extra curricular activity for students in Years 7–10 is the commitment to

community service Community service is unpaid work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community without any form of compensation. Community service can be distinct from volunteering, since it is not always performed ...

. All students are expected to give a minimum of 20 hours per year to a range of organisations or individuals. Some take part in cross-age

tutoring Tutoring is private academic support, usually provided by an expert teacher; someone with deep knowledge or defined expertise in a particular subject or set of subjects. A tutor, formally also called an academic tutor, is a person who provides ...

(working with younger children to assist teachers in class), others are involved in

fundraisers Fundraising or fund-raising is the process of seeking and gathering voluntary financial contributions by engaging individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies. Although fundraising typically refers to efforts to gathe ...

. Some visit the elderly on a regular basis while others help to form a

minyan In Judaism, a ''minyan'' ( he, מניין \ מִנְיָן ''mīnyān'' , lit. (noun) ''count, number''; pl. ''mīnyānīm'' ) is the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations. In more traditional streams of Jud ...

at one of the homes for the care of the elderly. The activities are varied and students have an opportunity to give their own time to causes that are linked to the Jewish community in Australia and Israel, as well as the broader Australian community. As the concept of giving becomes part of their lives most students continue their community service in Years 11 and 12 and beyond, on a voluntary basis.

Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)

Yavneh has consistently performed well over the years, as with some other Jewish schools and has been ranked amongst the highest achieving Victorian schools. For example, in 2007, thirty percent of the College's graduating students received

ATAR Atar, Atash, or Azar ( ae, 𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭, translit=ātar) is the Zoroastrian concept of holy fire, sometimes described in abstract terms as "burning and unburning fire" or "visible and invisible fire" (Mirza, 1987:389). It is considered to b ...

scores of 95 or above and in 2021, sixty percent of the College's graduating students received ATAR scores of 90 or above, with one quarter also obtaining ATAR scores of 97 or above. Past alumni Racheli Rosenblum (2000), Gali Kolt (2004) and Nadav Ellinson (2007), have each attained the highest ATAR of 99.95, placing in the top 32 students in the state. Leibler Yavneh College ranks highly amongst Victorian schools for VCE results. Recently – in 2003 (1st), 2004 (3rd), 2007 (5th), 2008 (5th), 2010 (7th), 2012 (10th), 2014 (9th) and 2021 (7th) – Yavneh placed within the top 10 schools in the state.

References

External links

Yavneh College Website
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