FRS education director Karen Bloom said, “This award encompasses the entire education programme — Kochavim, our Sunday morning programme for those in reception to year five, our bnei mitzvah programme for those in years six, seven and eight, and our activities for our post-bnei mitzvah youth.”
It followed her attendance at a three-day NRCSE management course, a visit to Finchley from the centre and presentations made by her and Hebrew co-ordinator Ravid Kochavi.
“We already had a strong programme, but there were, inevitably, areas where we saw ways to improve,” she said.
Rabbi Berger said she was “so pleased that such a regulatory body now exists for supplementary school education”.
The cheder’s move a few years ago to “a model of education on a Sunday morning which enables the children to choose their mode of learning through which we weave the Jewish studies curriculum has made a real difference to the children’s attitude to being there,” she said.
“Particular favourites have included teaching festival rituals through coding, Jewish history through cooking and liturgy through band.”
