“Any school, whether faith or community, which sits alone and doesn’t interact with the community around it can be accused of being insular,” Mr Dunford pointed out.
“Brodetsky is an Orthodox Jewish school and its service to the Jewish community will always be its first port of call. But we want children to be proud of who they are side-by-side with, acknowledging the wider community.”
Meanwhile, architectural drawings for the Jewish high school due to open on the Brodetsky site in September were released this week. Current Brodetsky buildings will be remodelled into classrooms, science labs, drama and food technology suites.
An additional building will be completed by 2014.