For our Lag B’Omer celebrations this year, select KS3 classes had a dedicated lesson and made cupcake bonfires. The Lower School Lunch and Learn group had a special pizza lunch and our Minyan regulars are looking forward to a post-Lag B’Omer trip next week. The Sixth Form Lunch and Learn group enjoyed watching and discussing...
This week, the former Head Boy Head Girl team was privileged to have tea at the House of Lords with JFS President, Lord Levy. I really enjoyed this experience, as did the whole team. We were given the unique opportunity of touring the Lords, graciously enhanced by the anecdotal tales of Lord Levy. Then we...
In March we reported that Year 10 student, Freddie Silver, together with two of his good friends, Jacob Leon and Charlie Rosenberg also in Year 10, had decided to do a charity run for Ukraine and signed up to British – Ukraine Aid. They have now completed their Half Marathon in approximately 1 hour and...
Six students from Norway visited London to experience Jewish communities and Jewish life outside of Norway. As part of their experience abroad, they came to visit JFS and met with our Head Boy Head Girl Team. An interesting cultural exchange conversation ensued and special connections made.
This weekend is Shabbat UK. JiEP sold challah rolls and gave out Shabbat UK Benchers to students, getting everyone into the Shabbat spirit!
This week we said our formal goodbye to our brilliant Year 13 cohort. Throughout the course of the day, they had the opportunity to celebrate with each other, their teachers and form tutors, reminiscing about the last seven years. After their final assembly, there was a barbeque, sunshine and an opportunity to take photos and...
On Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, JiEP ran a festive Hallel, an Israel party for each year group, as well as an exuberant, lunchtime dance party! We thank UJIA, JNF, Bnei Akiva UK, Chazak, and Tribe for their partnership in these events and helping to enhance our programming.
In commemoration of Yom HaZikaron, the Memorial Day for the fallen soldiers of the wars of Israel and victims of actions of terrorism, every student in school had a Tekes (ceremony). 200 students participated in a run in collaboration with WZO where each student ran in the memory of a fallen soldier. We thank UJIA,...
The History Department, joined by ex-member of staff, Susie Fox, had the pleasure of taking 14 Year 9 students to Ely in Cambridgeshire to visit one of the communities that hosted JFS evacuees during WW2. The day started with an Interfaith Workshop with students from Ely College, hearing the experiences of an evacuee, Michael Cohen,...
JFS was privileged to have been selected as one of the 80 locations in the UK to honour the 80th anniversary of the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) as well as be part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative, created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Each location has its own unique link with AJR...
