‘If you think you can, you can’ is the motto of the Jack Petchey Foundation and a group of our girls embodied this as they collected their award from the Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Alison Moore.

On Monday, 27^th June, the Jack Petchey Foundation had their Awards Ceremony at the Arts Depot in North Finchley.

The evening began with an address by the Mayor of Barnet, who spoke about the humble beginnings of Sir Jack. Since the inception of the scheme in 1999, it has raised millions of pounds for schools and youth organisations in London.  She spoke about the need to strive for a purpose.

Avigail R, Ariella G, Shani J and Shira L attended the event and were awarded medallions for their services to our School and the wider community. These girls embody Torah im Derech Eretz. They have such a positive attitude to life.

We are extremely proud of all our award winners!

 

Two of Hasmonean’s Year 12 students, Adina R and Shira G, joined forces with GIFT to create a wonderful evening celebrating women and diversity. The concept of the show was their GIFT Midrasha class project.

Called “Beyond the Label”, it showcased a very diverse range of nineteen models from the community. Students, Kisharon clients and women with different abilities confidently strutted down the cat walk to a range of songs which asserted their style, such as Lady Gaga’s ‘Born this Way’.

Three very inspirational women spoke: Alexia Baron who created the clothing range Porto&Bello – when diagnosed with breast cancer in the middle of a pandemic, she noticed that there was nothing which was comfortable and dignified to wear while having treatment.  Suzy Simons, who lost her sight and began a charity for the sight impaired to have support, spoke about her experiences. Finally, Debbie Rosten, who was ‘short and to the point’ emphasised that we all have to look beyond the label.

Thank you to Kinloss who provided the venue, to Valour who helped and inspired, as well as to House of Lancry, The Wardrobe, Fame and Alona Karen for dressing these wonderful women. Thank you also to all the wonderful women who did the hair and makeup, bringing all these fantastic looks together.

The event ran smoothly and slickly, giving time for the many attendees to mingle and enjoy an evening out. To see pictures and highlights of the night please check out @giftcharity on Instagram.

 

 

Our Year 7 football team were in very high spirits after an incredible 6-1 win against a good Ashmole Academy team. This successful win secured the first silverware in years for Hasmonean High School for Boys!

Our scorers were Akiva P., Joeli S., Ben N., and Mikael L.

The Man of the Match was Eitan A. with his incredible defensive play and strong captaincy, giving high level communication and structure to the players around him.

All of our Year 7 team played fantastically well together and we are very proud of their success!

On Monday 16th May, Mr Markiewicz and Mr Simberg had the pleasure of taking some of our Year 10 and Year 11 students to King’s University.

The boys had spent a hard term working on the Scholars Programme which meant that they worked closely with a PhD scholar, studying and researching her area of expertise, skin regeneration. They studied in a series of small group university-style tutorials. Our researcher currently acts as a lecturer to students at university level, so it has been a unique opportunity for our pupils to experience university-style teaching.

We visited King’s in order to celebrate our pupils having completed their course and worked on their final assignments.

We went with several other London based schools and it really was quite the experience to sit in a lecture hall and have a tour around one of the country’s most historic and well performing universities.