Year 11 student Natalie Shapiro not only achieved an A* in her Astronomy GCSE, but was awarded a special certificate from the Royal Astronomical Society for achieving one of the top 12 highest marks in the UK. These 12 students were then invited to an exclusive competition where they had to produce a scientific poster...
Charlie Waldman in Year 7 has a great passion for writing stories and is particularly interested in WWII. He has recently published a book comprising three of his stories that he wrote entirely on his own. As he is entering his Barmitzvah year and wants to do something charitable, he has been selling copies of...
The Weizmann Institute in Israel is one of the highest ranking multidisciplinary scientific research institutes in the world. One of the initiatives they offer is to facilitate educational programmes to encourage UK school students aged 16-18 to participate. One such programme is the Weizmann UK Physics Safe Cracking Competition which took place recently at the...
With an opportunity to celebrate the excellence in teaching as well as the contributions of non-teaching staff, PaJeS , which is part of the Jewish Leadership Council, received over 350 nominations from Jewish schools. JFS has had success over the years but this year even more so as we had two winners and two finalists....
The much anticipated ‘Super Cars’ event, run by a team of BTEC Business students, took place this week. Preceded by a few weeks of promotion, and with minimal teacher assistance, they organised 7 Super Cars to be brought to the school grounds, where a paying ticket holder could have their photo taken in the driver’s...
Last week one of the BTEC Business teams ran an incredible Football Tournament open to Year 7 and Year 8 students. With the potential for snow, it was a tense lead up to the event, not knowing if it would be successful. But in true JFS style, the students who signed up came kitted out...
This week, a new inductee to the rapidly growing PE wall of fame was awarded to Uri First in Year 11. All students who receive the honour of representing their country in their chosen sport are added to the walls of the PE Department to inspire others towards excellence. Uri represented Great Britain at the...
We were delighted to host staff and students from the Howells Girls School in Cardiff as part of the JFS outreach programme with the Board of Deputies. The event was led by Mr Rinkoff, the Head of Faculty for Jewish Education at JFS, with the help of eight JFS ambassadors. Our visitors spent time with...
The ever-popular Club 12/13 at JFS was launched this week for students in their Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah year. Students were treated to a fun party with great food, music and treats. They are now looking forward to fun-packed and meaningful future events related to these special milestones in life.
Colonel Richard Kemp CBE is a retired British Army officer who served from 1977 to 2006. He was Commander of Operation Fingal in Afghanistan from July to November 2003. He was an infantry battalion Commanding Officer, worked for the Joint Intelligence Committee and COBR as well as completing 14 operational tours of duty around the...
