Two banks collapsed in the USA last week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the Signature crypto bank in New York. How did this happen and how is it like the collapse of the banks during the Great Depression in the 1920s? What has the Declaration...
I am often asked, “What is the best way to learn Mathematics?”. Whilst seemingly a very innocuous question, it doesn’t come with an easy answer. There have been many studies, over many generations, to help understand what provides students with the best opportunities to achieve...
Are you kind? This simple question is at the heart of the theme for Leibler Yavneh College in 2023: Olam Chesed Yibaneh - Building Yavneh's world of kindness. But what does it really mean to be kind, and why is it such an important value...
This week, the calls of joy and celebration reverberated throughout the school as we ushered in the month of Adar. Musical Hallel, singing and dancing, costume coordination and Purim learning punctuated the classroom experience. And of course, the school tradition of singing “MiShenichnas Adar Marbin...
Play-based learning is a method which provides opportunities for the children to engage with people actively and imaginatively, using objects within their environment. Right from the time a child is born, they are already wandering, exploring, watching, listening, moving about, and feeling. The daily interactions...
Throughout the holidays I read numerous articles about how ChatGPT is going to change the educational landscape. How will teachers and schools respond to technology that can formulate an entire laboratory report, analyse a historic source or compose poetry? However, when I ran into parents, this...
This year for our Yom Iyun “Torah U’Maddah” conference, we were able to bring in an array of professionals and experts in their fields. A program of this nature was a 'first' at Yavneh and we are grateful to have been able to provide our...
Punctuating the schooling experience of every Yavneh student is tailored Jewish Life Programming. This begins with the ME Program at years 6 and 7, during the Bnei Mitzvah years of our students’ lives. This week, after a full semester of learning and growing through mitzvot...
All 4 Kinder classrooms enjoyed their very own ‘Bracha Café’ in Term 2. The café was created to consolidate all of their brachot learning over the year. The children were served a 3 course meal by their Morot and joyfully recited each Bracha relevant to...
Year 6 Student Benjy Orwin continues to inspire others through the Charity he created when he was just 8 years old. Many of us will remember when Benjy created ‘Socks 4 Support’ over 3 years ago collecting pairs of socks and distributing them to those...