2023- Shevat 2024 Events
Year 3 pupils enjoying their Purim craft at the Shrubberies Arts and Crafts lunch club.
Mrs. Glickman accompanied some of our preschool pupils to the school library where she read a book all about Hashem's world to link in with their secular learning about the world.
Many of our pupils have been learning Anim Zemirot at their local Shul and we invited them to perform in front of the whole school to celebrate their achievement. Michael Balshine From Whitefield Shul joined us for this event.
Over half term, our pupils took part in a special mitzva mission.
Here is an example of a some of the mitzvot undertaken and a picture of our raffle winners.
Rabbi Walker came into school for another superb Q&A session with year 6. Pupils had the opportunity to ask any jewish related questions they wanted.
KDPS pupils took part in a mitzva mission for Israel and did 865 mitzvot in 1 week.
Year 6 pupils took part in a supermarket challenge as the finale of their GIFT giving course with Rabbi Zeidman. The aim of this challenge was to teach them about budgeting, healthy eating, kashrut, empathy, the power of money and life skills. In teams of 3, they went around Tesco Cheetham Hill Branch, shopping for a family for a week with a total budget of £13. The staff at Tesco were so impressed with the beautiful behaviour of our pupils.
Rabbi Walker held a Q&A with our Year 6 Children.
GIFT came into school to run a session with Year 6 .
Year 6 pupils have taken part in the Yehudi program this year. They have enjoyed themed monthly sessions led by madrichim from year 12 in Yavneh and King David High School relating to the chagim and Israel with a final national challenge at the end of the year. These madrichim act as role models for our pupils and will continue to guide them as they move onto high school.
After learning about different brachot, one of the highlights of Reception is our special Brachot Party. Parents are invited to join their children who present songs about each bracha they have learnt and then make the different brachot with everyone answering Amen. We have over the past few years, dedicated this special brachot party to children in the community who have been poorly and have invited family members to come and join us for this event where possible.
The highlight of year 1 is the Siddur Ceremony. The hall is usually packed with family members joining us for this special event. The children present a beautiful performance each year with songs about tefilla and their precious Siddur and then parents are invited to present the Siddur to their own children. Rabbi Walker joins us for this event each year and always speaks beautifully to the children and to the parents.
Year 5 Etgar event
Each year we are honoured to host the disabled Israeli soldiers when they visit Manchester. the whole school welcomes them into the hall with singing and flag waving which always makes them very emotional. year 6 pupils then welcome them in Hebrew and present them with handmade gifts. After the musical assembly, the soldiers have a q&a session with year 6.
Year 5 clean speech activities
In conjunction with Seed and Gift Year 4&5 held a Clean Speech Event.
Year 3 held their chumash ceremony on erev Shavuot, attended by parents and grandparents.
To celebrate lag b'omer years 5 & 6 enjoyed a picnic followed by archery and ball games.
For lag b'omer the hall was turned into an inflatable fairground with bouncy castles, slides, assault course and stalls. The whole school had a great day.
Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust Learning
Whitefield Shul Havdallah Party
Remembrance Day Assembly
Rosh Hashanah Mitzva mission winners!
Etgar is part of our Year 5 curriculum. The children enjoy preparing for it through games and quizzes and the whole year travels down to Wembley to take part in the Etgar competition event. The atmosphere is fantastic and our pupils always have a wonderful time singing, dancing and interacting with year 5 pupils from all the other schools. This is a wonderful experience for our pupils
