Hasmonean High School

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Hasmonean High School is a center of educational excellence serving the Orthodox Jewish Community of North-West London. Boys and girls are taught separately on two campuses. Our school combines the secular with the religious within a framework of Torah im Derech Eretz (respect for others, both within the school community and in the wider world). Academic rigor is combined with in-depth Torah study, incorporating values such as chesed (caring/ kindness) and tzedakah (supporting charities).

Here at Hasmonean, we are committed to ensuring that our students grow as individuals who can make positive contributions to the school and in the wider community. Social, moral, spiritual, and cultural (SMSC) education is integral to our curricula and it allows our students to understand how to enhance their Jewish lives within the ethos of the school.

Hasmonean is one of the best performing comprehensive schools in the country: our students attain consistently high standards in their GCSE, A/S, and A-Level examinations. The vast majority of our graduates go on to study in world-class yeshivas and seminaries, before pursuing university education and a wide variety of careers. The highest expectations are shared by students, staff, and parents.

As a faith school, we believe it is important that our students are exposed to life in the wider community and that they have the opportunity to share their experiences with people of different faiths. Our students can do this through the various volunteering tasks that they carry out, through taking part in educational visits across London and the United Kingdom, through participating in sporting activities and events, and through various other activities that take place both within the school and within the wider community.

Alongside our commitment to education is a determination that every Hasmonean student understands their place in their community and wider British society. Teaching them to embrace their place in the world around them is achieved through various aspects of our curriculum and a broader social, moral, spiritual, and cultural (SMSC) educational program.

It is also reflected in our school ethos of Torah Im Derech Eretz and students have the opportunity to learn how to integrate with others from different backgrounds and respect British Values and the different cultures that make up our society. We expect our students to play a meaningful role in society and provide many opportunities during their school life for them to do so.

Underpinning this is a clear expectation, modeled by our staff, that everyone, regardless of their background should be treated with dignity, courtesy, kindness, and respect. We have a first-class staff dedicated to making our school a happy and purposeful school for students. Each student is valued, along with his or her parents or carers. We aim to maximize each student’s potential within a caring, disciplined, and ordered environment, and, in return, expect all students to respect and support the values on which our community is based.

All students, staff, and parents are aware of Hasmonean’s great purpose: to nurture students to become committed to, and ready to live, a life of Torah im Derech Eretz (to be successful in the wider world without compromising the attitudes and values enshrined in the Torah). This ethos has been at the heart of the school since its inception when it arose out of the ashes of the Holocaust to provide those who fled from it with a future it is this ethos that enables our students to become successful, responsible contributors to modern-day Britain.

Hasmonean’s values go above and beyond academic achievement. We expect teachers to deliver a first-rate religious education, outstanding secular studies, and a broad and enriched curriculum that promotes values such as chesed (caring/ kindness) and tzedakah (supporting charities). Although the vast majority of our graduates go on to study in world-class yeshivas and seminaries, before pursuing university education and a wide variety of careers, all students are well-prepared for their future lives.

Students are taught to love and cherish their religion and culture, to explore its rich depths and to be enriched by them, and that living an ethical life is a privilege rather than a burden. They are also taught to respect people of other faiths (or no faith), those who come from different cultures, and those who choose to lead different lifestyles.

We ensure that students are supported, regardless of their economic background or academic ability, to make excellent progress and to enjoy their spiritual, personal, and academic journey. We aim to maximize each student’s potential within a caring, disciplined, and ordered environment in return, all students are obliged to respect and support the school’s values, act as role models to other students, try their best, and act with a kind heart.

Hasmonean Girls School Page Street Mill Hill NW7 2EU

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