To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday 27th January, the HIPE team produced a recorded assembly for students to watch during certain lessons. Many thanks to Rabbi Fachler for the interview and Nethanel Kind for editing it. If you wish to watch the assembly, please feel free to access it via this link:
It might have been virtual, but it was still a full Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Girls’ School thanks to Mrs Abecasis’ heroic efforts. The opening ceremony saw Mr McClusky, Rabbi Golker and Mrs Brice share their thoughts, and Mrs Abecasis explained the theme of this year’s HRD: ‘Being a Light in the Darkness’. This […]
The Year 11 girls attended a Healthy Eating session which was organised by Mrs Taylor and run by Mrs Gerber, who has a degree in Nutritional Therapy. The girls explored myths that they may have encountered about healthy eating and discussed the best ways to look after their health through eating wholesome food and exercise […]
Last Thursday, the inexhaustible Rebbetzen and Queen of Challa Bakes, Joanne Dove, led the Year 7 Bat Mitzva girls in a special online Challa Bake. The girls were excited and engaged as she demonstrated the magic of yeast, water, flour and Emunah – even if she had to repeat instructions over and over again! Thank […]
The festival of Tu B’Shevat is famous for being the birthday of the trees and fruits. To celebrate, our students partnered (virtually) with Ulpanit Ort, Teveria which is a high school in Israel and created a beautiful and detailed painting of the Shivat Haminim (7 special fruits). The art session was run by a talented […]
Dear Parents, The most moving photograph I saw this week showed a Holocaust survivor, with a tattoo etched on his arm, being vaccinated in that same arm at a London clinic. The juxtaposition of those two sides of humanity – hatred and hope – is a moving reminder of what we are capable of. It is fitting, therefore, […]
Dear Parents, They say that silence is golden, except when you have children, in which case it becomes suspicious! But silence is certainly powerful and that is borne out in this week’s parsha. Our parsha tells us that when the Bnei Yisroel left Mitzrayim, the dogs did not bark. The Mechilta writes that for all […]
Hugó Klein and his wife, Matild (née Szabo) lived in the town of Hencida, in the Bihar district of Hungary. The couple had two daughters, Suzan (b. 1935) and Lili (b. 1937). When World War II broke out, Hugó was drafted into a labour battalion and Matild remained in Hencida with the children. Suzan and Lili were […]
Dear Parents and Carers, I wonder if, like me, when it was announced last week that schools would be closed until at least half term, you had a sense of ‘here we go again’ and the feeling of weary inevitability of life repeating itself which the film ‘Groundhog Day’ captured so beautifully. However, we are […]
At the end of the autumn term, the HIPE teams ran a phenomenal 20-Chanukah events across both schools in a space of five short days, in addition to their regular daily sessions. The special surprise was a real climax for the week: DNA- otherwise known as Darren and Andrew- a pair of Britain’s Got Talent […]