Ma Koreh
Adam Carpenter – Head of Jewish Life Primary
Year 2 students and their accompanying adults joined together on Friday morning for a newly designed Pathways Siddur Presentation Ceremony. The morning began with a siddur scrapbooking workshop, which provided a special opportunity for students to sit with their accompanying adult to personalise the siddur. Together they composed their own blessing of gratitude which was placed in the siddur and parents shared a special blessing they wrote for their child.
After some time scrapbooking together, creating pages for the siddur that combined Jewish symbols, values and personal reflections, parents formally presented the siddur to their child, reciting the Birkat Banim, the traditional blessing over the children. With their new siddur, students were able to then locate the Shema and recite it for their parents.
This siddur will be used as part of Year 3-6 morning tefillah and students will now spend time before the end of term familiarising themselves with it.
Following the workshop, everyone gathered together for a joyous Shabbat celebration led by Morah Bar-On and with musical accompaniment by Joshua New.
Todah Rabah to Morah Martine and Morah Miri for creating and running the scrapbooking workshop.
