MP opens new parent-promoted Jewish school

JCoSS, the UK's first cross-communal Jewish secondary school has been officially opened by the undersecretary of state for children, Tim Loughton MP.

More than 200 people marked the opening of the voluntary-aided, co-educational school in Barnet, including former Schools Secretary Ed Balls, JCoSS president Gerald Ronson and headteacher Jeremy Stowe-Lindner.

Mr Loughton said: "I know it has been a long slog to get the first pupils through the doors. Looking around, those efforts were worth every twist, turn and setback."

The opening marks the end of almost a decade's work to create JCoss, which is only the second parent-promoted school in the country.