Tabeetha School, Jaffa

Head of Secondary Report

Tabeetha is the most marvelous microcosm: a vibrant, vital world unto itself filled with laughter and energy, expanding brains, developing characters and growing limbs. There’s never ever a dull moment, with events and outings and sports and trips and music – and yes, some good old fashioned learning in the classroom. Tabeetha is ever changing with the ebb and flow of pupils from all over the world adding their insights and perspectives, their energy and opinions to the happy, noisy, boisterous family that is our little school. We are privileged to have such fine youngsters in our school and we so much enjoy getting to know each and every one. Grade 7 , who seemed so young in September on their arrival in Secondary school are now confident and poised to enter Grade 8 Grade 12 are about to graduate and leave us! Every year we go through this bitter-sweet rite of passage wherein we rejoice at the maturity and successes of our senior students while at the same time, we know so well howmuch we’ll miss them. The school is never the same again! This year, we’ve introduced some new courses in the senior school called ASDAN courses . There are many options available but we’ve started off with English, History, Sports and Opening Minds. We expect these courses to grow and develop over the next few years, providing interesting alternatives to the highly academic A Level exams. There have been lots of extracurricular activities this year: senior students took part in the MICC conference in Poland and the MUN conference at the American school. The school choir travelled to Prague to participate in Young Bohemia International Youth Music Festival and won a bronze award. Grades 11 and 12 went on a trip to Cyprus while Grades 9 and 10 spent a night up in Tel Hai. Grade 8 had a night in Neve Shalom and for the second year running there was a very special trip to Bonnie Scotland with pupils fromGrade 7, 8 and 9. Grade 8 are making their subject choices for next year Grade 9 are about to enter their GCSE examination year Grade 10 are starting to make A-Level choices Grade 11 are thinking about the challenge of A2 exams and further education

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