- a coeducational, Zionist, Jewish Day School situated in Hawthorn, Victoria
- established in 1942, now has nearly 1050 students from K3-12
- offers a broad based and comprehensive educational program
- offers a wide range of co-curricular activities including camps, seminars, sporting & cultural activities
- focuses on the worth and contribution of each individual child including those who are highly able or gifted, those who possess moderate to severe learning difficulties, and those who possess moderate to severe mental and/or physical disabilities
- possesses a strong sense of community and family
- a leading edge school with outstanding results in each of its VCE years
- in recent years 100% of VCE candidates received tertiary place offers
- draws its students mainly from Caulfield, Brighton, East St Kilda, Hawthorn & Kew
- most students are native English speakers
- a large number derive from Eastern & Central European families, many of whom are first and second generation Holocaust survivors. (Melbourne has the world’s largest per capita Holocaust survivor community outside of Israel.)
- several families are recent immigrants from Russia, Israel, South America & South Africa
- assists a significant number of its families with fee assistance ranging from 10-100%. The remainder of the Bialik Community embraces this as a community obligation – this is separate from our scholarship program
- aims to ensure that its graduates are committed, tolerant and informed Jews and citizens
- recognises its responsibilities to and within the general community
- encourages and fosters the full involvement of its students in Australian life as proud, responsible and committed citizens
- constantly strives to create an environment of mutual respect and support among staff, parents and students
- maintains the flexibility and open-mindedness required to deal with a constantly changing world
- has an energetic development policy with world class facilities
The school's motto, Step Forth With Courage, is derived from a Chaim Nachman Bialik poem, Lamitnadvim Ba'am, which was written in 1900 in Odessa shortly after the second Zionist Congress. A poem full of pathos, Bialik makes an impassioned call to the younger generation to rebuild the Land of Israel. Click here to read the poem.