Tabeetha School, Jaffa

The Student Council has done a great job in organizing all kinds of exciting events like the International Day and the Christmas Disco and non-uniform days. These days are mainly to raise money for our chosen charity: Save A Child’s Heart. The Student Council had a day trip to SACH to play with the children from all over the world – one as young as six months – who had gone through successful, life changing heart surgery. In addition to all of these activities and events we’ve had a thrilling Spring Fair, a professional standard play (or, more accurately, two short plays), a Christmas and Spring music concert, class assemblies and assemblies from our chaplains and former pupils. Our clubs include a running club – and they headed off to take part in two organized runs for Peace; an old movie club; a gardening club and a sleeping club. The latter was quiet and calming and very popular with the teachers! We’ve had inter-school sports competitions at the Peace League and Art competitions with prizes awarded in both of these activities. Our Community service programme has grown considerably and now nearly every student in Grades 11 and 12 takes part in some sort of volunteer work: taking small groups in the primary classes, helping out in the garden, tutoring their peers or younger pupils, helping in the Music department and Sports department. Tabeetha pupils are a multi-talented, diverse group of youngsters who have much so give - and they’re willing to do just that. They’re articulate and confident and full of fun and energy. The special Tabeetha atmosphere that people feel as they come in our beautiful ancient blue doors is infused with their zest for life and thirst for knowledge, their care for others and their desire to succeed. We have tears and arguments and the occasional fights, of course: we are, after all a group of very human beings and none of us is perfect. But oh! We have so much to be grateful for in Tabeetha. It’s a privilege to be part of such an extraordinary little place. I wish all those who are leaving us and all those who are staying - staff and pupils alike - a wonderful summer, much success and fulfilment and every blessing imaginable.

PamGilboa Head of Secondary

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