Schools

Lev Chana’s Art Program focused on the work of artist Paul Klee last week. Students learned about his style and then made their own Klee inspired pictures of the kotel!

As any faculty member at YUHSG can tell you, teaching is a calling – a vocation like none other, built on a passion for learning and a love of the classroom community. And yet we find ourselves amid nationwide teacher shortages.

TAL Academy in Belle Harbor had the opportunity to host Rabbi Paysach Krohn. TAL Academy is a school for bright children with reading and language challenges. The boys and girls were spellbound as Rabbi Krohn regaled them with stories from his interactions with Rav Sholom Schwadron zt”l. He also shared other stories about young children whose caring and chesed made a big difference in the lives of others. Rabbi Krohn’s visit was inspiring for TAL faculty and students.

The Eighth-Grade girls organized a very special evening at YCQ on Wednesday, December 27. Over 120 people, including students, their families, and staff members, gathered to make challah, pray, and come together as one, as a z’chus and fundraiser for those in Eretz Yisrael.

Junior high girls at SINAI@YCQ were thrilled to spend Shabbat with their teachers in Kew Gardens Hills. They helped prepare for it by baking brownies, and also enjoyed pre-Shabbat bowling and a post-Shabbat pizza and singalong!

Names, Not Numbers© (NNN) has been a very important and meaningful program for students in many schools and certainly it has been the case here at Bnos Malka Academy. What starts out as just a “cool” thing to do (learning how to use professional cameras, lighting, microphones, and editing software), slowly evolves into a much more significant and, at times life-altering, undertaking. In the past week, the eighth grade students at BMA have interviewed Holocaust survivors and begun filming this year’s documentary.