Kehilatainu - our Cheder

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Kehilatainu - our Cheder

Kehilatainu Term Dates 2025-2026

What is Kehilatainu?

Kehilatainu means ‘our community’. This was a name chosen by our students to reflect the warm and happy community spirit that makes our Sunday morning school so special. Kehilatainu is for primary aged children who do not attend Jewish schools.

We meet every Sunday between 9.30am-12.30pm during term time. We are open for members of our community and other Masorti communities who do not have such provisions.

The Kehilatainu Handbook

Please click below to read through our super useful Kehilatainu Handbook for Families! Inside you will find all the information you could ever ask for on topics such as staff, break times, homework, prayer, Hebrew, family engagement, drop offs, pickups, absences, equipment, and so much more.

our curriculum

Please click below to see our lovely Parents' Guide for the 2025-2026 curriculum. This includes the weekly timetable, term dates, and a description of the units and projects that each year group focuses on. Best of all, it's colour coded!

Key Dates for your diary

Parents and carers will always be the primary Jewish educator in a child's life, as well as the biggest influence in their beliefs and values. It is for this reason that we are committed to family learning and engagement throughout the academic year.

Each class will have a Kehilatainu Coffee Morning for parents to meet and catch up with each other, as well as a Family Beit Midrash where parents are invited to come and learn alongside their children in a Rabbi-led workshop. Parents are also asked to attend the Sukkot Family Service with their children.

Please see below for dates and timings (you can click on the posters)!

Sukkot Family Service: 11.30am-12.30pm Sunday 12th October

Family Beit Midrash and Kehilatainu Coffee Morning:

 

our values

Learning at Kehilatainu is not limited to the child’s academic experience. We also have a dedicated curriculum to develop children’s emotional and social learning within a Jewish context. Children are encouraged to integrate Jewish values into their interactions with others, their sense of self-worth and their attitude towards learning. Our approach is based on the tradition of Jewish middot (personal qualities), we expect students and staff to be striving to grow as menches (good people). Every month we focus on a different middah and challenge our students to consider how they can integrate the Middah into their behaviour. We award students who work really hard on developing a middah in our monthly Mensch of the Month award ceremony.