This week our Year 10 cohort participated in a ‘Virtual Employability Skills’ event. The whole year group, including those at home, were able to participate in a variety of workshops, including, ‘Transferable Skills’, ‘Finance Skills’, ‘CV Writing and Planning’ as well as ‘Job Interviews’. Students found the sessions very insightful and useful for their future...
The Jack Petchey Award is generally run at JFS to celebrate the incredible achievements of our students. However, once a year we have the opportunity to recognise the incredible work JFS staff do to help enable our students to excel. Rob Smart, Creative Arts Technician, CCF JFS – Corporal of Horse, was awarded with the...
Using ‘Lockdown’ to his advantage, Year 10 student, Jonah Marks, trained daily to enable him to compete in several qualifying events for European and World multisport events, post ‘Lockdown’. He is the youngest in his age category (16-20), but has been able to hold his own against competitors much larger and stronger than himself. Jonah...
Year 9 student, Shiloh Jones, has recently been awarded the Jack Petchey Award for his Hockey playing exploits. Shiloh has been steadily improving his game over his two-year tenure at the well renowned Waltham Forest Hockey Club. As a right back he finds himself utilising his excellent stamina to sustain attacks and thwart the opposition’s...
As part of our Enrichment curriculum, a small group of Year 9 students, had the opportunity to interview members of AJEX (including a JFS Alumnus) as part of National Armed Forces week. Shoshana Notarius in Year 9 writes, “The veterans shared some incredible stories and experiences which has left us with some questions. Does our...
The JFS Pod area was abuzz with excitement as our popular Summer Concert was able to take place, after being cancelled last year due to COVID-19. Our 60 talented students, representing all year groups, as well as Alumni, performed to a packed audience. Whether involved as soloists or in various ensembles, our students performed a...
Six JFS students recently volunteered to guide groups of around 10 people through five performances that would take place in various areas of the JW3 building, on the theme of isolation. The first performance was a short story of how an Israeli woman and her partner had to quarantine in her old childhood room. Then...
Congratulations to our enthusiastic group of Year 7 students who managed to raise £2000 for Jewish Care, in aid of Dementia Awareness Week. They collectively ran the length of a marathon, each running a mile, devotedly supported by their peers during lunchtime. Their successful efforts were then rewarded with a celebratory lunch.
This week all GCSE and A Level Music students were treated to a personal meeting with American musical theatre lyricist and composer, Stephen Schwartz. Mr Schwartz is a multi-award winning composer whose song ‘Defying Gravity’ is one the set works that students study for GCSE Music. We were all honoured and privileged that he was...
Over the half term holidays a selection of students from Years 9 – 11 volunteered at the Camden Food Bank, based at JW3. Some doing it for the first time but others having already given their time to this in previous holidays. It is a delight that our students are so happy to take part...
