Akiva School

The unseasonal rainy weather could not deter enthusiastic Akiva pupils from celebrating Lag B'Omer in the traditional way.

Older classes joined with younger classes for activities and songs for the scholars' holiday. Though there were no bonfires, Y1 and 2 learnt the bonfire dance "Hora Medura". Y2 also welcomed Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Steven Katz who helped them to learn more about the significance of the day.

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Akiva was delighted to welcome teachers from our partner school in Kanvilli, Ghana.

Through the Jewish social action organisation Tzedek Y4 has been communicating with peers in the Cathilc school and learning first hand about their lives.

Teacher Valens Fianyo told the children more about the school, where the classes have over 60 children each and taught a Ghanaian song.

Valens is pictured here with Y4 class teachers Pam Cohen and Tamara Gordon  and some of their pupils. 

This week children from Akiva will join children from another Jewish school and from Christian and Moslem schools to present a card that they made together for the Jubilee at a London palace.

The project, an initiative of the Joseph Interfaith Foundation, brought the children together to use art and poetry to design the card and to meet and learn about each other.

The school is busy preparing for the Jubilee in other ways too; Y1 enjoyed a Coronation Day workshop run by "History off the Page" and the whole school is entering a competition organised by our caterers, Caterplus to design a Jubilee lunch. The winning class will receive books for the class library and will be able to donate to a charity of their choice.

Y5 did a play in Hebrew about how the Israeli flag got its colours.

The whole school sat down together for Israeli style lunch.

We chose just the right time on a relentlessly rainy day to dance in the playground!

Each class did lively learning about Israel.

Thank you so much to the catering staff, Pnina and Limor our Hebrew teachers and to a great group of parent helpers!