On Sunday Zac Jacobs in Year 8 swam 200 lengths (5km) in just under 2 hours; raising over £1000 for the Epilepsy Society in support of his sister. This is an amazing achievement Zac and the Year 8 Team, together with your school family are very proud of you!
In our last instalment of Tu Bishvat activities, Rabbi Schoemann from the KLBD, ran a bug checking workshop for Year 9 students. The students were able to learn about the process of checking fruits and vegetables for bugs as required in Jewish dietary law. Using a visualiser, students were able to have first-hand experience of...
Tu Bishvat celebrations have continued in Jewish Studies classes. On Tuesday, all Year 8 students participated in an activity with Tribe UK where they heard an inspirational message about the process of growth, planted radishes and played Tu Bishvat Bingo. A selection of Year 12 students got busy planting trees around the JFS campus, as...
On Tu’bishvat we at JFS enjoyed the celebrations and activities offered by the school to celebrate the birthday of the trees. Starting with delicious fruit smoothies offered to the early morning Minyan ‘crew’ followed by the exclusive Sixth Form party where students enjoyed ice cream, slush and music. Finally, we had the JFS tradition of...
The Year 10 GCSE Astronomy students recently held a successful stargazing evening at school. Using the school telescopes, we were able to see some magnificent views of the planets, including the rings of Saturn, moons of Jupiter and the crescent shape of Venus as it reflected light from the Sun. We even had a clear...
This week the whole of Year 9 participated in Project Impact’s Wrapathon, in partnership with Light Up a Life. Eight secondary schools across London took part in the charity initiative wrapping up 2,000 chocolate gift boxes to give to care workers and hospital staff as a gesture of gratitude. Project Impact is a youth volunteering...
Next year, Year 9 Jewish Studies students will be learning about Islam as one of the elected religions for the GCSE course. As part of the JFS Interfaith Programme, these students had a presentation from Navid Siddiqui with a welcome introduction to some of the pertinent themes in Islam. Students had the opportunity to learn...
As we participated in celebrating Chanukah at school this week, some of our Year 9 students enjoyed making Chanukiah designs using coding in Python language. This is a design made by Georgia.
After a two-year hiatus, we were able to host our annual Winter Concert. Over 40 students performed to an enthusiastic audience in the Theatre, involved either as soloists or in various ensembles. A wide variety of musical styles were performed ranging from Musical Theatre to Classical and Jazz. To celebrate Chanukah, candles were also lit...
