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...
Year 13 students studying Childcare and Education, recently took part in a paediatric first aid course run by Betty Gat from Baby Safe Training. Our students found the course to be very useful and insightful and they all managed to pass the training with flying colours!
The JFS Sixth Form football team recently enjoyed a 6 – 0 win over Kingsbury School. Amit managed to score a hat-trick and goals form Zan, Ben and Charlie secured their win. Well done, we are proud of you!
