On Tuesday 4th February, our Year 10-13 girls’ media students hosted Karen Wagner to run a makeup and photography workshop. Karen Wagner is a London based Makeup Artist who was trained at The Christine Blundell Makeup Academy. Karen has experience working in film, TV and theatre. The students especially liked that Karen worked on the […]
Dear Parent, The theme of this week’s Holocaust Memorial Day was ‘Standing Together’. As part of our commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, students from St Mary’s Catholic School, near Saffron Walden, joined pupils at both the Boys’ and the Girls’ Schools. In addition, girls from Copthall and Barnet Hill Academy, […]
On Thursday 23rd January, our two school finalists, Levana and Tzvi, took to the stage of the Compton School for the Jack Petchey Speak Out Competition: Regional Final. Levana spoke about how the past shapes our future with a passionate and highly original speech which linked her name, and the concept of the moon coming […]
On Sunday 26th January, Hasmonean triumphed at the national High School Bible Quiz 2020, which was held at The Pillar Hotel. Hundreds of students from Jewish High Schools around the country came together to compete. At stake were 12 places in the Junior and Senior levels. The senior winners were awarded a free trip to […]
On Holocaust Memorial Day, fifteen Year 9 boys accompanied Rabbi Fachler to the St. Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney to participate in their Holocaust Memorial service. The service was led by Rabbi Fachler, with other readings from members of the clergy of other faiths. After the service, the boys were treated to an array of snacks. Thank […]
Holocaust Memorial Day was superbly organised by Mrs Abecasis on Friday 24th January. Along with Mrs Abecasis, our informal educators: Mr Shebson and Rabbi Fachler, helped run the Holocaust Memorial Day events at the Boys’ School. Our Year 10 boys welcomed a group of 30 boys from St Mary’s High School where they spent the […]
Holocaust Memorial Day was superbly organised by Mrs Abecasis on Friday 24th January. Students from three different local schools: Copthall, St Mary’s, and Barnet Hill Academy joined our girls for the morning’s events. The opening ceremony introduced the theme ‘Standing Together’. Rabbi Golker gave a Dvar Torah, where he linked concepts from Tehillim 22 to […]
On 15th January 2020, the boys Maccabi badminton tournament was held at JFS. We took a very strong team who played against JFS, Immanuel, KS, Yavneh and JCoss. The boys were outstanding, both in sportsmanship and middos. Congratulations to our Years 9, 10 and 11 competitors who won their tournaments.
Dear Parent, In this week’s Parshah, we see that Pharaoh repeats a pattern following every plague: he appeals to Moshe to demand that they stop but then changes his mind about releasing the Bnei Yisrael: he makes his heart ‘heavy’. Every time that the suffering and fear engendered by the plagues is removed, Pharaoh returns […]
Dear Parent, Firstly, I would like to draw attention to an exhibition which Mrs Abecasis has curated at the Imperial War Museum: “Against All Odds: Britain and the Rescue of Jewish Children”. At the opening of the exhibition last Sunday guests included family members of the rescuers, Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld & Sir Nicholas Winton, […]
