It is not only Israel celebrating its 70th birthday this year, so is one of London’s oldest Jewish schools. 

While Jewish schools have grown ever more popular in recent decades, there was some opposition when Stanley Frankfurt founded Kerem in Hampstead Garden Suburb for three to seven-year-olds in 1948.

Extended to age 11 in 1956, the independent Orthodox primary now has 230 boys and girls on its roll and former chairmen of governors include Jewish Leadership Council chairman Jonathan Goldstein.

Parents of pupils and alumni will gather to celebrate the platinum anniversary at a dinner in Finchley on June 6.

Danielle Lipton, treasurer and former co-chairman of the PTA, said Kerem is “very much part of our lives”.

Three generations of her family have attended the school. Her father was a pupil there and she joined the nursery in 1981. Her three children, Sophia, who is now at Immanuel College, Annabelle and Jonah have followed her to Kerem.

“My husband Sam continues to head security which he has done for the last six years,” she said. “We are both very much looking forward to celebrating Kerem turning 70.”