Lubavitch Senior Girls' School

Last updated

Lubavitch Senior Girls' School
Lubavitch House 2.jpg
Lubavitch House, location of Lubavitch Senior Girls' School
Address
Lubavitch Senior Girls' School
Lubavitch House

107-115 Stamford Hill
, ,
N16 5RP

Information
Type Academy
Religious affiliation(s) Orthodox Judaism
Established1962
Local authority Hackney
Department for Education URN 145609 Tables
Ofsted Reports
HeadteacherMrs Helen Freeman
PrincipalRabbi Shmuel Lew
GenderGirls
Age11to 18
Website https://www.lubavitchseniorgirls.com/

Lubavitch Senior Girls' School is a Jewish secondary school and sixth form for girls, located in the Stamford Hill area of the London Borough of Hackney in England. [1] The schools is guided by the principles of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. [2]

First opened as a private school in 1962, Lubavitch Senior Girls' School became a voluntary aided school in 2012 under the control of Hackney London Borough Council. [3] In April 2018 Lubavitch Senior Girls' School converted to academy status and is now sponsored by The Lubavitch Multi Academy Trust.

Lubavitch Senior Girls' School offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels. The curriculum of the school is divided between secular subjects (Chol) and religious studies (Kodesh). Secular subjects include Modern Hebrew, while religious studies include the Yiddish language and Jewish history. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stamford Hill</span> Area of Hackney, London

Stamford Hill is an area in Inner London, England, about 5.5 miles north-east of Charing Cross. The neighbourhood is a sub-district of Hackney, the major component of the London Borough of Hackney, and is known for its Hasidic community, the largest concentration of Hasidic Jews in Europe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Menachem Mendel Schneerson</span> Orthodox rabbi (1902–1994)

Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to many as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an Orthodox rabbi and the most recent Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chabad</span> Belarusian Hasidic dynasty

Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch, is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its outreach activities. It is one of the largest Hasidic groups and Jewish religious organizations in the world. Unlike most Haredi groups, which are self-segregating, Chabad operates mainly in the wider world and caters to secularized Jews.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn</span> Sixth Chabad Rebbe (1880–1950)

Yosef YitzchakSchneersohn was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement. He is also known as the Frierdiker Rebbe, the Rebbe RaYYaTz, or the Rebbe Rayatz. After many years of fighting to keep Orthodox Judaism alive from within the Soviet Union, he was forced to leave; he continued to conduct the struggle from Latvia, and then Poland, and eventually the United States, where he spent the last ten years of his life.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bais Yaakov</span> Haredi Jewish primary and secondary education for women

Bais Yaakov is a genericized name for full-time Haredi Jewish elementary and secondary schools for Jewish girls throughout the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beth Rivkah</span> Chabad girls school

Beth Rivkah, formally known as Associated Beth Rivkah Schools, is a private girls' school system affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement.

Chaya Mushka (Moussia) Schneerson, referred to by Lubavitchers as The Rebbetzin, was the wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism. She was the second of three daughters of the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. She was named after the wife of the third Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yeshivah College, Australia</span> Chabad school in Victoria, Australia

Yeshivah College, officially Yeshivas Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch, is an independent Orthodox Jewish comprehensive single-sex primary and secondary Jewish day school for boys, located in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda East, in Victoria, Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gan Israel Camping Network</span> Series of Jewish summer camps

The Gan Israel Camping Network is a group of Chabad-Lubavitch summer camps. The network claims a total enrolment of over 100,000 children.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jewish Released Time</span> Jewish learning initiative

Jewish Released Time, also known as Sheloh, is an organization promoting released time for the Jewish education of Jewish children learning in public schools.

A faith school is a school in the United Kingdom that teaches a general curriculum but which has a particular religious character or formal links with a religious or faith-based organisation. The term is most commonly applied to state-funded faith schools, although many independent schools also have religious characteristics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oholei Torah</span> Chabad school

Oholei Torah is the common name of the Lubavitch schools Educational Institute Oholei Menachem and Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah. The main branches of the school and its administrative offices are located in Brooklyn, New York City.

The Petchey Academy is an academy, located on the site of the former Kingsland School in the London Borough of Hackney, where its LEA is The Learning Trust.

Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich (HBAED) is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status for boys, located in the Peckham area of the London Borough of Southwark, England. Students arrive from 55 different feeder schools.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Putteridge High School</span> Academy in Luton, Bedfordshire, England

Putteridge High School is a co-educational secondary school located in the Putteridge area of Luton, in the English county of Bedfordshire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bais Chana Women International</span> Chabad school

Bais Chana Women International is a Chabad non-profit organization that works to provide an environment for Jewish girls and women, ages 15 and up and from all backgrounds, to explore Jewish teachings and traditions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Torah Academy School, Johannesburg</span> School in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

The Torah Academy is a Chabad Jewish day school in Johannesburg, South Africa. It comprises a boys' high school, a girls' high school, a primary school and a nursery school. The Mission of the school is to "provide and promote the highest quality Jewish and general education to a diverse community of Jewish children... [and] to cultivate students to reach personal excellence, and to be responsible members of society." Although the school is Chassidic Orthodox, families of all levels of observance are welcomed.

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is a division of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. It offers adult Jewish courses on Jewish history, law, ethics, philosophy and rabbinical literature worldwide. It also develops Jewish studies curricula specifically for women, college students, teenagers, and seniors.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zalman I. Posner</span>

Rabbi Zalman I. Posner was an American rabbi and writer associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement. Posner served as a congregational rabbi and community leader in the American Southeast for five decades, serving the Orthodox congregation Sherith Israel and founding an Orthodox Day School both in Nashville, Tennessee.

References

  1. "Lubavitch Senior Girls School - Chabad Lubavitch UK". Chabad.org.uk. Archived from the original on 19 September 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  2. "Edwards courses". vaildaily.com. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  3. Runyan, Joshua (20 December 2011). "London Lubavitch Senior Girls School Wins State Aid - Chabad-Lubavitch News". Chabad.org. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  4. "Curriculum - Chabad Lubavitch UK". Chabad.org.uk. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.

Coordinates: 51°34′20″N0°04′24″W / 51.5722°N 0.0733°W / 51.5722; -0.0733