Grandparents and Friends Day – Rosh HaShannah celebrations

Our ceremony began with all of K-6 together in the MPH and was filled with song, blessings, shofar blowing and an Israeli dance performance. Guests then joined the students in High Holy Day themed workshops, to engage in Jewish learning and creating together. 

Year K: Celebrating Rosh HaShannah as the birthday of the world,Year K students and their grandparents created special boxes to represent the unique gifts they bring to make the world a better place.  

Year 1: Students made their own shofar and learnt about the meaning and significance of the shofar. Together with their grandparents, they wrote their own blessings and hopes for an improved year ahead.

Year 2: Grandparents and students created unique Rosh HaShannah cards with words of blessing for their family and wishes for the future. Working co-operatively, students and their grandparents explored the meaning, symbolism and taste of the symbolic foods of the Rosh HaShannah Seder.

Year 3: Working co-operatively, students and their grandparents explored the meaning, symbolism and taste of the symbolic foods of the Rosh HaShannah Seder.

Year 4: Using the symbol of the pomegranate, students and grandparents created Rosh HaShannah cards and beautiful canvas artworks.

Year 5: Using coloured paper, grandparents and students created a visual midrash and interpretation of the Book of Jonah which is read on Yom Kippur.

Year 6: After reflecting on the Ashamnu, the confessionary prayer of the found in the Yom Kippur Machzor, students and grandparents created their own alphabetical acrostic of our communal missteps and provided a positive suggestion for how we can improve our world in the year to come.

Thank you to all the grandparents and friends who joined us in this week and for all the staff and students involved. 

שנה טובה

Wishing you, your family and the world a new year filled with peace and blessings.