Alexis Demos

Jake Fleischer

Shorashim is a major project that we do in Year 7 from the middle of Term 1 until the end of Term 3. The word ‘Shorashim’ in Hebrew is translated into ‘roots’ in English and this project is all about the roots of your family. Examples of things you do in this project include family trees, family recipes, journey maps, family genealogies and many other tasks. You show your hard work in a creative way by putting it into a scrapbook and adding pictures, stickers and lots of colour.

Shorashim was so enjoyable since we got to discover so many things that we never knew about our families. One person in our Year found out that they were related to Anne Frank by marriage.

Shorashim was a great project because we also got to be very creative in the design which made the process more enjoyable. Overall Shorashim was a very rewarding and necessary project which helped us discover more about our Jewish and non-Jewish roots which we didn’t know before. This also means that we can pass all this information down to future generations and it won’t be forgotten.

The Shorashim evening was an amazing night where we got to show everyone our finished projects and how proud we were of them. It was so nice to see how everyone did the same project so differently. Everyone should look forward to doing Shorashim.