Emanuel School is a Jewish Dayschool for girls and boys from Pre-school to Year 12 in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Emanuel School focuses on empowering and discovering individual potential, being an inclusive, diverse community open to all, having a strong Jewish identity and being committed to egalitarianism and pluralism. We aim to provide the opportunities for each student to excel. Mind, Spirit and Being are all essential components of the development of our young people. We also aim to foster a love of learning, a strong sense of community and a pride in our students’ Jewish heritage. Emanuel School is unique. Being an intimate family school, it is small enough to ensure that each student is known well and large enough to offer a diverse range of academic subjects and extra-curricular activities. It has built a reputation for its very strong music, drama, debating, chess and sporting programs in particular. The School's Specialist Learning Centre assists students and teachers from K to 12 to achieve their potential. Emanuel has high-quality, professional staff who work together for the good of our students, helping them develop as reliable and effective citizens, and to achieve outstanding results (for example very close to 50% of our 2009 Year 12 candidature gained ATARs of 90 or over). The School motto 'Mind Spirit Being' encapsulates the special qualities of the School where our children are given the opportunity to be happy, fulfilled and challenged and where their Judaism is a living, vibrant part of their lives. We work towards being an environment 'Where the individual excels', whether in the academic, social, physical or extra-curricular sphere. Our pastoral care program is based on the principles of positive psychology, where each student is encouraged to build on their signature strengths and develop a positive, purposeful, proactive and resilient approach to learning and life in general. Our academic program takes the philosophy of Cultures of Thinking and Teaching for Understanding, two..