On Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd January, 90 pupils from Yr11 visited the Radlett Reform Synagogue as part of their Jewish Beliefs & Practices module within GCSE Religious Studies. It was a great opportunity to experience some of the things that have been studied, and will hopefully aid pupils in their 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 close up 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.