Welcome from the Headteacher
It is my pleasure and privilege to be the headteacher of such an exciting and successful Cheder. We have approximately 80 children on our database and close to 30 members of staff. It is wonderful to see the young children learn and develop throughout their Cheder years, learning to read, to pray, the Parasha story, how to keep the Festivals, Shabbat, Kashrut, and about Israel.
We welcome praise as well as criticism and adjust ourselves accordingly.
We have a dynamic curriculum which provides a vibrant and relevant experience for our children. We focus on areas which we really want the children to know well, like how to run a Pesach Seder or how to make Kiddush, and to touch on other areas like Lag B’Omer, whetting their appetites and enabling them to understand these topics better when they revisit them at a later stage in their lives. We place a strong emphasis on Israel in our activities. We also have a structured Hebrew reading & Tefillah programme which you can read more about here.
My aim is to ensure the children know what they learn well with a more hands on teaching methodology instead of giving them a broader basic knowledge. We encourage parents to join in and attend adult education classes to learn alongside their children.
Our Cheder is open to all Jewish children ages 5-11 years old.
Classes take place on Sunday mornings at South Hamstead SHul from 9.45am to 12.45pm.
There are 3 terms, normally corresponding to the school terms.
Mrs Daniella Broder
Headteacher
