As part of Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, we were delighted to host Jonny Benjamin and Joey Kolirin this week to talk to Years 12 and 13 about their experiences of mental health and the importance of not struggling in silence. Both Jonny and Joey are JFS alumni and we know they inspired others to...
The new JFS Combined Cadet Force made an impactful entrance to the AJEX Parade on Sunday for their first public engagement at the Cenotaph. The JFS CCF was represented by 25 cadets and their four adult officers, who together marched along Whitehall, laying a posy of red Poppies for all fallen soldiers and veterans. After...
In the lead up to Mitzvah day, students enjoyed a full week of activities at school. We began the week with Odd Socks Day, whereby students were allowed to wear non-matching socks, donating the money to charity and raising awareness for Kidscape, a charity that provides support for Anti-Bullying. As well as this, we had...
On Remembrance Day last week, Year 9 students took part in a session with Anglo-Jewry historians Dr and Mrs Fraser who came to speak about JFS and British soldiers during WWI. It was also an opportunity for the JFS Combined Cadet Force (CCF) to represent JFS. They proudly read out the Exhortation before the minute’s...
We were delighted to welcome Rabbi Glatstein who spoke to the Year 10 Text classes on the topic of ‘Moshiach – When, what and how?’ Rabbi Daniel Glatstein, who hails from Cedarhurst in Five Towns, New York, has now over 6,500 Shiurim on the website and app ‘Torahanytime’ and has written several books published by...
Year 11 student, Jonah Marks, competed at the World Duathlon Championships this weekend in Spain. He was the youngest competitor and performed very well, considering he caught Covid at the start of Half Term! Jonah ran a personal best for the 1st 5km and got into a good group for the 20km bike (Sprint Du/Tri...
Year 11 student Sophie, has been awarded the ‘ImpACT Kindness Award 2021’ for her tremendous continued voluntary efforts in baking for NHS staff for the last two years. We are very proud of you Sophie – keep up the great effort!
Issy in Year 7 is celebrating her Bat Mitzvah and has been fundraising all year for the Israel Guide Dog Centre and Shelter. She has managed to raise over £1000 by using her talent in art to create bespoke greeting cards. She was privileged with her father and brother Harry (also in Year 7) to...
Students studying A Level Drama, recently had the privilege of having the Director and Writer, Patrick Marber, visit JFS. This was organised for us by Michael Pollack (JFS Philosophy teacher), in his capacity as Advisor/Dramaturg on this production, who also arranged for us to have wonderful seats at the Wyndhams Theatre for the incredible production...
Last week, Aaron Toubian in Year 11 attended the Football Content Blogging Awards where he was nominated for two awards for his YouTube channel ‘Toubian Talks’. Unfortunately, he was not successful this year, but we are very proud of him nonetheless!
