This Ivrit blog is now running and it will be updated regularly. The information you will find here will be an essential tool to support your child in his progress. For each class, you will find a post with words and a post with rules we see. You will also find a post with past assessment exercises.

 

• Our curriculum:

-P1 to P3 are ‘immersed’ in the language as much as possible and learn words in context (counting, colours, body…). They also learn how to read and write (and type) with the AlephChamp method. By P3 they should know all the letters and be able to read.

-From P4 to P7, pupils are also ‘immersed’ in conversational Ivrit. They then increase their vocabulary by following the themes of the ‘ivrit beclick’ method (family, school, traveling…). Short but quite formal grammar rules are integrated in the lessons. Pupils also work on their reading/writing skills, and learn to use the script alphabet.

• How you can help at home:

There is ALWAYS homework.

-Before a lesson, please use this blog to check your child knows rules, and practise reading and understanding of words recently seen in class.

-Help your child to revise the alphabet regularly. The reading rules are pretty simple, they are summarised HERE. Remembering the letters is the difficult part… 2mn of letter and vowel revision every night will go a long way.

 

• If you want to do more…

-If you feel your child can extend his knowledge, you will find more words and expression for each ‘Ivrit Beclick’ theme HERE (will be posted soon!).

-practising is the most important part of learning. You can do so much nowadays with internet: listen to the radio (even just as background noise for a few minutes a day); watch movies, series, and cartoons with subtitles; watch youtube tutorials; read online newspapers; borrow books from our Ivrit library; make your keyboard bilingual (by adding stickers + adding a language in the control panel); add Hebrew to your smartphone/Ipad… A list of useful online resources and games can be found HERE.

-parents who are speakers of Hebrew or of any other language, you have an amazing opportunity to make your child even smarter than what they are! Do speak the foreign language at home as much as possible, it is not too late to switch now.

 

• Other information

-We are planning to organise a Hebrew afterschool club for adults once every fortnight after October.

-a P7 group is given the opportunity once a week to do some Maths in ‘immersion’, in Hebrew.

-If you have kids’ Hebrew books you are not using, please give them to the school and they will be added to our Ivrit library.

-We may be taking part in a spelling Bee competition with other UK Jewish schools in London in June.

-We are in the very early stages of attempting a partnership with an Israeli school.