The Bar Sagi Young Poets Prize competition commemorates a talented young Israeli poet, Bar Sagi, who unfortunately passed away at the age of fifteen. The competition was established by Bar’s family and is administered by the Voices Israel Group of Poets in English, a non-profit organisation bringing people together through poetry. The 2021 competition is...
The JFS Covid Testing Centre went as smoothly as could have been hoped for this week. A BIG thank you to all of our wonderful parent volunteers and staff who helped the students take their tests and log their results. A true example of Orah Viykar in action.
JFS Governor, Dr Charlotte Benjamin (a north London GP), welcomed Prince Charles to a pop-up vaccine centre in Staples Corner this week, as part of a drive to persuade people in ethnic minorities to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Dr Benjamin holds the role of Vice-Chair of the North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group, which looks...
Sara Golding in Year 10 was selected from over 600 musician applicants, aged 13 – 19 from all over the UK, to join the UK’s National Youth Orchestra’s NYO Inspire initiative in 2021. She will initially be joining and performing with the group digitally and eventually in person when they meet up later in the...
Lord Mann, the Government’s independent anti-Semitism advisor, spoke to our Year 12 cohort in their assembly this week. He explained how his job works and what he sees as his three-fold aim, explaining our position against those in our community in Europe. It was clear, even virtually that our students were gripped, and the calibre...
Four Year 12 students, Phoebe Duke, Minnie Freed, Brandon Roach and Hannah Sugars, recently put on a spectacular online quiz evening for the young people of the Langdon Network. They ran a series of online games including ‘Spot the Difference’, ‘How’s Your General Knowledge’, ‘Where’s Wally’ and ‘Catchphrase’. This is the start of what we...
YOUNG ART is an exhibition at the Royal College of Art for school students aged 4-18, raising funds for Research into Childhood Cancers. There were around 7000 entries nationally with over 80 schools competing. Two of our students, Ella Bennett (Y10) and Hannah Schogger (Y11), have both had their artwork chosen for the Exhibition. Hannah...
JFS student, Katie in Year 10, has been busy with a very worthy endeavour together with her older sister Deborah, a JFS Alumna. Last week, in the Jewish Weekly article entitled, ‘Sisters Behind A Monthly Lockdown Initiative’, it describes how they have made nearly 2,000 food packages and continue to do so for those in...
In their Art lesson this week, students in Year 9 worked on observations of colour and patterns in shells. Some students that did not have regular paint at home improvised by using coffee, with some wonderful results!
