Tefilla

Tefilla is said at the start of every day either in whole school, key stage, house or year group assemblies. The children daven beautifully with one child from each key stage chosen for the tefillah award during our Monday whole school assembly. Tefillah begins with our 'Thank you Hashem' song talking about the opportunities we have each day to make our neshama shine by doing mitzvot and building our connection to hashem.
This year we have introduced a new 'Totally Terrific Transformational Tuesday Tefilla' assembly where we invite pupils to have the chance to lead the davening. We also invite guest speakers to share inspirational stories with the children which have a beautiful message they can take away from the assembly each week.

What Tefillah means to me?

Rav Elad Eshel from Bnei Akiva came to speak to King David Primary KS2 pupils in assembly with an inspirational story connected to  Israel. He is pictured with pupils Noah Levine, Jessica Gilbert, Barney Stephens and Evie Weiss.

Pupils stood up in assembly to explain which tefilla is their favourite and why.

Years 5 & 6 pupils and parents enjoyed a child friendly interactive shacharit experience led by our family educator Rabbi Dovi Colman. Every child received a specially printed siddur companion with stories and explanations on the different tefillot. There was beautiful singing of tefillot and as it was a Thursday morning, the Torah was also taken out and read with fathers being called up for an Aliyah. After shacharit, the children and parents enjoyed a small kiddush in the shul hall.