Religious School Facts

Number of  students   100  
Number of  teachers   15    
Grades we teach - Pre K-7
    
Community Wide Hebrew High School Program

Classes held Wednesday 4:30 - 6:00 PM for children in Grades 3-7;  Sunday from 9:30 - 12:00 noon for all grades

Activities and Projects

• Special Sunday morning programming, including specialist for art and music.   
• Tikkun Olam/community service based curriculum including year-long mitzvah and tzedakah projects for each classs. 
• Students contributed over $1,000 annually in tzedakah for local, national and international charities, both Jewish and secular.
• Weekly canned food drive is donated to Jewish Family Service Food Pantry. 
• Special contributions by Religious School children at Chanukah to feed hungry clients at local soup kitchen.
• Outstanding, committed faculty provide engaging activities in a loving, nurturing environment.
• Each child is unique; special learning concerns addressed.
• Parallel Education for parents on Sunday mornings.
   

  SPECIAL EVENTS

  • Shabbat student-led services each month
  • Interactive Family education programming (Kindergarten Sh'ma program; 2^nd grade Hebrew name program; High Holiday, Chanukah, Tu B'Shvat, Passover special events, participation in community-wide Purim carnival, and more).
  • Yom Hashoah programming
  • Israel Programming
  • Annual Woldorf memorial program- On Sunday, October 24, 2010, acclaimed Jewish singer Sheldon Low will present a concert at 11:00 AM.
  • 7th grade has unique "Community as a  Classroom" curriculum which includes visits to local Jewish communal institutions such as mikvah, Jewish Group Homes, other synagogues, and Jewish funeral home; community service; volunteerism at Jewish Home, local soup kitchen, Holocaust monument. 
  • Second half of 7^th grade year includes intensive unit on Holocaust ending with a visit by a Holocaust survivor and a family trip to US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.    

  

  Just a few of Many programs our Wonderful RS brings to the Community!!!
   
  Barbara Plesco
  Religious School Chair 2009/2011