So committed are the students, she said, that “because of timetabling, they have had to do some lessons in their lunchbreak. So they really are keen.”
JCoSS, she says, is looking at strengthening its Ivrit offering throughout the school. “We have moved Ivrit out of the modern languages department into Jewish education.
“And in year seven, we will be making it more about the cultural context rather than learning the language in isolation.”
The school also introduces students to the possibility of studying Hebrew at university. Every year students doing exam courses in Ivrit or A-level religious studies have a trip to the Genizah Unit at Cambridge University, which also includes a visit to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
