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Editorial A Level/ BTEC Results Thursday 17th August 2023

Dear Parents, Re: A Level/ BTEC Results – Boys’ School This year’s cohort missed out on the chance to sit GCSEs and suffered major disruption to their learning in Years 10 and 11 which had an impact on their Sixth Form studies. Despite this, the decision was taken by the government and Ofqual to return […]

Editorial 20th July 2023

Dear Parent As we come to the end of another year at Hasmonean, there is one very important thing left to do. And that is to give thanks. My first go first to those who are perhaps the least familiar to you but without whom Hasmonean would simply fall apart: The finance team The Recruitment […]

Editorial 20th July 2023

Dear Parent As we come to the end of another year at Hasmonean, there is one very important thing left to do. And that is to give thanks. My first go first to those who are perhaps the least familiar to you but without whom Hasmonean would simply fall apart: The finance team The admin […]

Dear Parent “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same…” These famous words written by Rudyard Kipling appear above the doors to Wimbledon’s Centre Court. They are there to remind the players that in every tournament, one will leave as a champion whilst the other will leave […]

Dear Parent We are delighted to inform you of an exciting event, that we will be holding a Tanya printing on the school premises this coming Sunday 16th July from 11.15am until 1.00pm for students. This event offers a very special opportunity for students across the school to partake in the printing of a sefer […]

Jack Petchey Winners

Congratulations to all our award winners for this academic year for their resilience, outstanding contributions to school life and the wider community. Gila G, Yael S, Naomi B, Aliza K, Maytal B, Shoshi M, Shira C, Miki V, Maayan M

Editorial 6th July 2023

Dear Parent I have been reading the novel Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. It is about an American woman in the 1950s who wants to be a scientist but encounters lots of obstacles mainly because of prejudice. I was very struck by the following paragraph and I think it sums up what we should […]

Author Yvonne Bailey Smith – Windrush 75

Both the Boys’ and Girls’ School were fortunate to be visited on Friday, 23rd June, by Yvonne Bailey Smith who moved to the UK as a teenager from Jamaica and has recently published her book “The Day I Fell Off My Island.”   To mark Windrush 75 we invited her to speak about the arrival of Jamaican […]

Editorial 29th June 2023

Dear Parent It seems to be the wedding season, with many joyous celebrations before the “three weeks” begin next Thursday. Imagine, bleary eyed, you bump into a friend the morning after a wedding. “Wasn’t it lovely?!” you say to your friend. The reply is a curt “the music was too loud!” or “the main course […]