Over twenty year 12 students began their First Aid training course today with Learn2Rescue. The course involves three after school training sessions followed by students working in groups to deliver first aid workshops to students in the lower school. At the end of the course they will receive a certified first aid qualification.
The Year 13 KAVOD committee ran a discussion based PSHCE lesson for Year 12 today on the issue of Consent and Sexual Harassment. This is the first of three sessions they will be running in the next few months.
Both Year 12 and Year 13 Geography classes were given a talk today by Alison Jeardley from the Borehamwood Town Council. As part of the council’s work on the upcoming Elstree and Borehamwood Neighbourhood Plan, the views of the (young) local community is a big part of the research. Alison ran a focus group with each Geography A level classes and gave a presentation about town planning, looking at the what planning is, the national and local planning frameworks, roles and responsibilities and how local people can influence what happens in their area.
Today many of our Sixth Form students helped run the CHANUKAH fair in the Primary School.
14th December 2022:
We held our annual Apprenticeship Evening for over 100 Year 12 students and parents. We heard from a number of alumni students who chose the apprenticeship route and spoke about their various post 18 pathways.
* Georgia Shaw – Atos
* Daniel Garcia & Stuart Rosenberg – Adler Shine
* Zak Isaacs – Google
* Daniel Gold – Civil Service
* Josh Shaw – Jacobs
Expert trainers from Talk The Talk came to Yavneh College on Monday, 12th December to work with students in Year 12.
Talk The Talk’s mission is to develop students’ oracy skills and communication confidence to support positive interaction in all life situations and improved social outcomes.
Talk The Talk has trained over 115,000 students to be confident communicators across England and Wales since they began in 2013.
The Talk About The Future workshop is an expertly led discussion and series of activities to support students to identify their own unique life experiences and skills and then develop their ability to use oracy to effectively articulate those experiences, skills and employability value.
Year 13 Politics students took part in a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament.
We were delighted and privileged to welcome Lord Mann to Yavneh College today who led a special assembly for year 12 students.
He spoke about his work as the government advisor on anti-Semitism aswell as taking questions from the students from a range of subjects including Kanye West, anti-Zionism, life on campus and anti-Semitism in sports.
We are so grateful to Lord Mann for giving up his time to speak to us today and are extremely thankful for the work he has done to ensure our safety and security.
Yavneh College Sixth Form students were proud to represent our school at the annual AJEX parade, honouring Jewish ex servicemen and women.
