Author: Dov Smith (Dov Smith)

Congratulations to our new Head Boy/Head Girl Team that was named today: Head Boy – David Levy Head Girl – Hannah Vogel Deputy Head Boys: Josh Graham Adam Sanders Deputy Head Girls: Jordana Schlagman Elli Minster

A number of students from our  ‘Yad beYad’ Charity Committee had the opportunity to go to the Dove Summit Social Action visit last week where they had the opportunity to discuss issues related to self-esteem and body image in their local community. Trained Dove and WE facilitators worked with students to develop a tangible action...

Our JiEP Department’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ programme was back on in the Shul after a three week hiatus with over 50 students attending. From learning how to light the Chanukah Menorah to studying for the Etgar Israel competition, students from Years 7-10 came to learn about various topics of Jewish interest.  We were also joined...

Today was a unique day in school as staff and students were allowed to be creative with their hairstyles for school, as part of the annual ‘Mad Hair Day’ in aid of Chai Cancer Care. JFS was one of many Jewish schools across the UK coming together in a fun and unusual manner, in support...

Year 11 Geography students attended a field trip to Stratford in East London recently. They were completing field work to investigate how quality of life varies in urban areas and starting to understand why. The trip was led by the ‘Field Studies Centre’ from Epping who did an excellent job at guiding us around the...

80 years ago a rural, Christian community welcomed nearly two thousand children from London’s East End. It was the first time that many of them had ever met a Jew. For the Jewish children of the East End, it was the first time they had left London and lived outside of their community.  What followed...

JFS students, as usual, played a role in a number of Mitvah Day and Mitzvah Week projects in and out of school. A number of our Minyan students were given the opportunity to be involved in a Mitzvah day project outside the school making packs up for the homeless at a local church hall with...

This week JFS hosted a visiting group of students from the Yachad School in Modiin, Israel, who were here in the UK for the Model UN Conference in Oxford. Their visit to JFS, organised by Ms Wolfson, was to create a link between them and us (all Year 12 students) to gain an insight into...

Last Sunday, approximately 100 JFS students, our Headteacher Mrs Fink, staff, family members and alumni represented the school at the annual AJEX (Jewish Military Association) Remembrance Ceremony and Parade at the Cenotaph. The JFS contingent was once again one of the largest, and stood out with blue banners that bore the names of JFS alumni who...