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...
This week the JiEP Department organised two club launches, the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Club on Tuesday and Israel Club on Wednesday. At the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Club launch on Tuesday, Year 7 girls and Year 8 boys enjoyed a pizza and chip lunch with plenty of sweets and dancing. This club offers students practical ways to engage...
Last week the school celebrated the concept of ‘wellbeing’, with a full week of wellbeing talks and mental health related events. A number of students attended a dog therapy session at lunch time. There was a screening of the Disney movie ‘Up’ for the lower school. We were joined by Gary Froy, a local teacher...
Last week our talented Year 9 student, Macey Bannerman-Lloyd, represented the South East of England in the penultimate England trials for U15 girls. She was successfully chosen to proceed to the final England team trial in December. Macey will now represent the South of England in a match against the North of England to be...
Students from a variety of year groups have arrived for a Rehearsal Retreat at Grosvenor Hall and started rehearsing in earnest.
