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Elementary

Grade 4 Basketball Clinic

January 13, 2020

The Grade 4 Deqalim class demonstrated excellent Derekh Eretz, in keeping with recent Middot. Based on their Derekh Eretz, the students were able to choose a special...
Elementary

Holocaust  Memorial - יום השואה

May 8, 2019

Last week, the grade eight class lead a commemoration in honour of the six million Jewish people who perished in the Holocaust. The sad and poignant...
Elementary

Havdalah on Ice 2019

February 11, 2019

On January, 26 2019, we had our annual Havdalah on Ice at the Scotia Bank Pond in Downsview Park. At the event, the school community took...
Elementary

Environment Week

January 25, 2019

This week was Environment Week, an annual event organized by the Environment Committee. Environment Week is always the week of Tu Bishvat; the birthday of the...
Elementary

Yasher Koach to Clara

February 21, 2018

Yasher Koach to Heschel student Clara Glick (Grade 5) for winning Second Prize in the annual Jewish Music Week Student Art Contest. The winning contest art pieces...
Elementary

Grade 5 Dance Workshop

February 2, 2018

We took a dance workshop with Alpha and Jamas to prepare for our Living Haggadah performance.  They told us about where they came from in West...
Elementary

Tu Bishvat and Environment Week at Heschel

February 1, 2018

Tu Bishvat is the “New Year for the Trees.” In keeping with the environmental ethos of our school, we regard Tu Bishvat as a time to...
Elementary

Poetry Festival

November 15, 2017

Being open to new experiences, solving problems, and exercising our imagination are all ways of thinking flexibly that we teach our children at The Toronto Heschel...

The Grade 3 Animal Research Project

May 11, 2017

In preparation for the Grade 3 Animal Research Project students chose an animal to observe in their own backyards. Noa chose a snail and collected some...