On Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th December, 104 pupils in Yr11 visited the Radlett Reform Synagogue as part of their Jewish Practices module within GCSE Religious Studies.

It was a great opportunity to experience some of the things that have been and will be studied, and will hopefully aid pupils in their very first GCSE exam in May. Pupils used the visit to ask questions about Judaism in today’s society and to learn more about the different ways Judaism is followed in Reform and Orthodox communities.

Pupils also got to see first hand what it was like to use some of the articles of faith such as the tallit (prayer shawl) as well as having a look at a Torah scroll that was nearly two hundred years old and that had been hidden from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust.

Mr Hiscock